The Hechinger Report

JULY 2, 2021

Until now, the work has been done by students of sociology and psychology and anthropology. For almost as long as there have been wars, there have been people who study veterans. But a specific degree program to study veterans is being launched this fall at Saint Leo University in central Florida.

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Anthropology for Beginners

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Worldview Worldview is the set of cultural and psychological beliefs held by members of a particular culture; the term was borrowed from the German Weltanschauung. Social (psychology, sociology, communications, history, cosmology) 4. Social (psychology, sociology, communications, history, cosmology) 4. Mendelson 1956): 1.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Anthropology has been quite slow to embrace Helen Schwartzman’s insight in The Meeting: Gatherings in Organizations and Communities (1989) that meetings offer a vital window into collective human projects and organizations. Josh Meyer is the section contributing editor for the Association for the Anthropology of Policy.

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Anthropology.net

AUGUST 6, 2024

In his groundbreaking book, The Naked Neanderthal: A New Understanding of the Human Creature (2024), Slimak delves into the depths of Neanderthal life, challenging preconceived notions and offering a fresh perspective on what it means to be human. Slimak asserts. "We

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Related: The number of college graduates in the humanities drops for the eighth consecutive year. The majors whose graduates tend to earn the lowest salaries after graduation are majors such as theater, studio art, creative writing, psychology and anthropology.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2024

Over the past decade, a growing number of professors in fields as diverse as business, English and the performing arts have integrated their teaching with efforts to minimize their campuses’ waste and emissions, at a time when human-created climate change is fueling dangerous weather and making life on Earth increasingly unstable.

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Anthropology News

AUGUST 11, 2024

Some might think that the height of his medical career was when he gave draftee Elvis Presley his physical and psychological examination, but for Len it was his service as an intern at Charity Hospital in New Orleans. Len is best known to historians of anthropology for an article published in 1982 that began a small academic industry.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 16, 2024

1947–2023 Dr. Karen Ito was a dedicated anthropologist, committed to promoting the understanding of the diversity of human cultural experience, with significant and wide-ranging contributions to the field of anthropology. She studied anthropology at UCLA, earning her BA in 1969, MA in 1973, and PhD in 1978.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Working in Indonesia and Peru, we also use this research, and our close partnerships with local communities and organizations, to spur action that supports gender equality and the basic human right to water. WATER INSECURITY AND GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE The statistics on rising water insecurity are distressing. An estimated “1.8

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NOVEMBER 1, 2023

After the shooting, I was invited to co-author an article on academic trauma for the American Journal of Human Biology. In my discipline of anthropology—a field inherently concerned with both cultural and biological diversity—there is an unsettling paradox.

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Anthropology for Beginners

AUGUST 17, 2023

It approaches the comparative study of human experience, behavior, facts, and artifacts from a dual sociocultural and psychological most often psychodynamic perspective.

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Anthropology for Beginners

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

As the anthropological definition of culture especially by scholars like E.B. Tylor includes everything from tools and artifacts to the abstract conceptualization of after-life, there are ample evidences which suggest that human evolution is as much as a social and cultural phenomenon as it is biological.

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Anthropology for Beginners

MAY 22, 2023

Culture and Personality Culture and personality is the name of a broad unrecognized movement which brings cultural anthropology, psychology and psychiatry together from about 1928 to 1955. After 1960s the field becomes known as psychological anthropology. For Benedict emotional status are typical of particular culture.

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Sapiens

JANUARY 9, 2024

The idea of “Man the Hunter” runs deep within anthropology, convincing people that hunting made us human, only men did the hunting, and therefore evolutionary forces must only have acted upon men. Such depictions are found not only in media, but in museums and introductory anthropology textbooks too.

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Her research examines the conditions for justice during internal armed conflict, human rights prosecutions, transitional justice in post-communist Eastern European states, gender equality in post-conflict settings, and justice efforts in democracies. Professor Lindbloom completed her M.A. in sociology at Minnesota State University, Mankato.

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Anthropology News

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

In the case of international development, it was not a matter of material reparation or a revision in the global balance of power, but was instead a matter of overcoming one’s psychological biases inherited from the prior colonial era. In this article, I begin with a brief overview of SBS in DRG work.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Email Address Choose from our newsletters Weekly Update Future of Learning Higher Education Early Childhood Proof Points Leave this field empty if you’re human: In recent years, division over how social studies should be taught has plagued school districts around the country.

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Sapiens

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

On top of the starvation, displacement, bombings, and other forms of physical and psychological violence that all Palestinians in Gaza are experiencing in this brutal, ongoing assault, deaf Gazans face additional vulnerabilities that are heightened during times of war.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2016

Related: In era of high costs, humanities come under attack. Some advocates for the liberal arts agree that connecting employment and financial aid would unfairly target the humanities , in which graduates’ unemployment numbers tend to be higher and income lower than those of their peers immediately after graduation.

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