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Anthropology.net
DECEMBER 3, 2024
By integrating insights from developmental psychology, researchers have identified playful and imaginative marks made by young artists, fundamentally rethinking prehistoric creativity. The article is titled, “Children as playful artists: Integrating developmental psychology to identify children’s art in the Upper Palaeolithic.
Anthropology.net
FEBRUARY 18, 2025
A Genetic Mystery Unraveled For years, scientists have tried to piece together the evolutionary puzzle of human language. What genetic shifts allowed humans to develop the intricate vocal control necessary for language? Research suggests that mutations in the human NOVA1 gene may have played a role in the development of language.
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Teaching Anthropology
FEBRUARY 1, 2023
In a 1934 lecture on techniques of the body, for example, Marcel Mauss argued that studies of movement should attend concomitantly to biological, sociological and psychological facets. Human hygiene is taken as an example. This particular activity comes on the heels of a discussion of cultural universals in comparative perspective.
Anthropology for Beginners
JANUARY 3, 2021
McIver defines society as “a system of usage and proedurs, of authority and mutual aid of many groupings and divisions, of control over human behaviour and of liberties. While one cannot image to have a society without collection of individuals similarly, one cannot have human beings without forming a mutual social relations.
Anthropology 365
MARCH 31, 2025
After graduating high school, I began university in 2003, majoring in biology and psychology. I had taken a couple of courses in anthropology and was excited by the fact that doing anthropology allowed me to engage in all of my interests: biology, conservation, ecology, and how humans fit in the world.
Teaching Anthropology
NOVEMBER 11, 2023
ELIZABETH KEATING, Professor of Anthropology & Graduate Faculty, Human Dimensions of Organizations, The University of Texas at Austin Teaching through research is recognized as one of the strengths of anthropology. The interview assignment encouraged them to see anthropology in conversation with their own families.
Anthropology for Beginners
SEPTEMBER 26, 2023
The idea is predicated on the degree to which human behavior is held to be culturally determined, a basic tenet of American cultural anthropology. Strong cultural relativists often see anthropology more as an art than a science and prefer to interpret symbolic meanings rather than explain social mechanisms.
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