Anthropology for Beginners

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

iv] Anthropological attention to Peasant study: Although Robert Redfield’s fieldwork in Mexico as early as 1926 is considered to be the first attempt to see peasant as an analytical category, the study of peasant or the use of the term peasant is quite old. Some scholars emphasized generic cultural or “folk” characteristics of peasants. [vi]

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

A groundbreaking study 1 of ancient human DNA from the Oakhurst rock shelter in South Africa is shedding new light on population history in one of the world’s earliest regions of modern human activity. It contained more than 40 human graves and preserved layers of human artifacts, such as stone tools, going back 12,000 years.”

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Editor Stacey is Lecturer in Biological Anthropology at the Australian National University, specialising in the analysis of archaeological human remains. Follow Stacey on X (Twitter): @wardstaceym The post Stacey Ward first appeared on Teaching Anthropology. She was recently appointed Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Editor Stacey is Lecturer in Biological Anthropology at the Australian National University, specialising in the analysis of archaeological human remains. Follow Stacey on X (Twitter): @wardstaceym The post Stacey Ward first appeared on Teaching Anthropology. She was recently appointed Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Editor Sherry is the Associate Chair and Assistant Professor Teaching Stream in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto Mississauga, specializing in pedagogical research in biological anthropology, and community-engaged learning with the local Indigenous community.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Editor Sherry is the Associate Chair and Assistant Professor Teaching Stream in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto Mississauga, specializing in pedagogical research in biological anthropology, and community-engaged learning with the local Indigenous community.

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Anthropology.net

OCTOBER 18, 2024

The ability to digest starch has played a crucial role in human evolution. Researchers discovered that early humans experienced two significant waves of amylase gene expansion: the first potentially linked to the mastery of fire and the second with the onset of agriculture approximately 12,000 years ago. 1 Bolognini, D.,

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Anthroholic

DECEMBER 9, 2023

Anthropology has a significant role to play in the world of UI/UX research and design. The field's focus on understanding human behavior, culture, and motivations aligns closely with the goals of UX research.

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Teaching Anthropology

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Editor Caroline is Professor of Human Ecology at the department of Anthropology, UCL. As an educator, her key interests lie in experiential and situated learning; research-based education; critical pedagogies in HE and student partnership in curriculum reform.

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Teaching Anthropology

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Editor Caroline is Professor of Human Ecology at the department of Anthropology, UCL. As an educator, her key interests lie in experiential and situated learning; research-based education; critical pedagogies in HE and student partnership in curriculum reform.

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Anthropology.net

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Over the last 12,000 years, a pivotal shift occurred in the human genome, driven by the advent of agriculture and the shift to a carbohydrate-rich diet. This research sheds light on how the rise of agriculture accelerated the evolution of genes associated with energy extraction from starchy foods.

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Anthropology.net

AUGUST 19, 2024

Cooking is often viewed as a significant turning point in human evolution. It not only provided the extra calories needed to support larger brains 1 but also transformed the way early humans interacted with their environment. Unlike other species, humans are biologically adapted to consume cooked food.

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Sapiens

JANUARY 31, 2024

The morning of my 26th birthday, I woke up to incredible news for my field of evolutionary anthropology: For the first time, the study of human evolution won a Nobel Prize. But because his 1984 paper appeared in a journal published in East Germany, the research did not reach global scientists or publics.

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Anthropology.net

AUGUST 22, 2024

The reconstruction of early human evolution has largely been shaped by fossil evidence found in a few key locations in Africa. However, recent research underscores the limitations of this approach, highlighting the potential biases introduced by relying on such geographically limited data.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 6, 2024

Recent research from Binghamton University reveals a groundbreaking application of ancient DNA extraction techniques in forensic anthropology. Originally designed for studying woolly mammoths and Neanderthals, these methods can now potentially identify badly burned human remains. 1 Emery, M. 1 Emery, M. Bolhofner, K.,

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Some teeth were found in the Arbreda de Serinyà cave near Banyoles by a large group of researchers / ACN The teeth, meticulously analyzed, include specimens from children, a young individual, and an adult. The research team employed advanced dating techniques and comparative morphology to assign the teeth to Homo neanderthalensis.

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AUGUST 6, 2024

Ludovic Slimak, a leading paleoanthropologist affiliated with the French National Center for Scientific Research and the University of Toulouse-Le Mirail, has devoted his career to exploring the enigmatic world of Neanderthals. Slimak asserts. "We One striking example is the discovery of bird feathers in Neanderthal sites in Italy.

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Anthropology News

JULY 16, 2024

This summer, tthe AAA hosted three interns through the Virtual High School Internship , and throughout the summer, the interns engaged in a variety of enriching activities: Research Projects: They read scholarly research articles, took them apart to see how they were constructed, and communicated their methods and findings to diverse audiences.

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Anthropology for Beginners

AUGUST 17, 2023

The two concepts are often combined in anthropological writings and they have a close and complex historical relationship. On the other hand, ethnography also designated the aspiration to collect systematically, and according to rigorous procedures, facts about human languages, customs, arts, and achievements.

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Sapiens

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Lagging behind in scientific understandings of human diversity, the medical profession is failing its oath to “do no harm.” ✽ Doctors lie daily. I was struck by an alarming dichotomy: Genetics and anthropology scholarship have unanimously refuted a biological basis for race. The reason lies deep in human history.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2023

I co-chaired a panel at the 2023 meeting of the American Anthropological Association titled “The America Animal.” ” Abstract: Other-than-human animals comprise a large part of the social and ecological fabric of our lives in ways that are often unexpected or unnoticed.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 29, 2024

Issued: January 29, 2024 Response deadline: February 23, 2024 Pitch responses: February 29, 2024 First drafts due: March 27, 2024 For our third issue of 2024, Anthropology News is delving into the burgeoning field of artificial intelligence (AI) and its intricate relationship with human reality. And is humanity shaping AI?

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Anthropology News

APRIL 30, 2024

In Wayanad, a densely forested district in the state of Kerala, in South India, human-animal conflict is on the rise, with frequent reports of tigers preying on cattle, bears causing havoc, and elephants damaging property. But it is not only humans who are harmed in these conflicts.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Anthropology is the study of humans, or as Dr. Jon Marks says: “the study of who we are and where we come from.” ” I consider it to be the study of humans and the variety of relationships humans have. However, for much of my career, I have studied non-human animals (mostly primates).

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Researchers from the University of Tübingen have found that australopithecine hands exhibited the necessary muscle attachments for complex object manipulation. These attachment sites adapt and strengthen with frequent use, allowing researchers to infer habitual behaviors. "By The analysis revealed that australopithecines like A.

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Anthropology News

JULY 27, 2024

After army service, in 1959, Brown returned to El Camino and declared anthropology as his major. He transferred to UCLA to continue his anthropology courses with M. One of his classmates was Carrie Chu, who was from Hong Kong and was studying anthropology and Southeast Asian history. Smith and Hilda Kuper as his advisors.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The prevailing narrative of how humanity came about seemed straightforward enough: In what is today Europe, the last Neanderthals bowed out as Homo sapiens began arriving on the continent around 40,000 to 45,000 years ago. Archaeological excavations at Mandrin Cave revealed the remains of both Neanderthals and modern humans.

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Anthropology.net

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Yet, new research from Dartmouth anthropologists suggests that risky play, such as climbing and swinging, fulfills an evolutionary need crucial to child development and resilience. ” The researchers connect this concept to our evolutionary history. .”

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Anthropology News

AUGUST 11, 2024

In 1957 Len left medicine for a field that interested him far more, beginning the study of anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania and getting his PhD in 1963. Their first child, Professor Benjamin Glick, was born during their research in the highlands. Glick appeared first on Anthropology News.

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Anthropology News

OCTOBER 1, 2024

In this essay, I reflect on the experience of curating Alexa Vasquez: Undocumented Times/Queer Yearnings as an undocumented immigrant anthropologist and lessons regarding the potential for curatorial anthropology as a praxis of care. After all, experiencing a range of emotions makes us complex human beings.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 15, 2024

The late David Graeber was an American professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics. Such roles are prevalent in areas such as finance, admin, law, marketing, and human resources. Graeber’s book is conversational in style, drawing on history, literature, sociology, anthropology, and pop culture to support his arguments.

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Anthropology News

AUGUST 21, 2024

In January 2020, I carried out preliminary research in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, where rampant wildfires had engulfed wide swaths of the country each year since August 2010. In this way, fantasies of climate solidarity evoke “universal human frailty” in ways that problematically circumvent issues of uneven yet “ specific culpability.”

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Anthropology News

APRIL 17, 2024

He then served in the US Army in for two years (1952–54) and as a government researcher in Germany before earning a PhD in cultural anthropology in 1961 from the University of London, with certificates in African and Islamic law and Swahili at the School of African and Oriental Studies (SOAS) in 1958.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 16, 2024

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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Anthropology.net

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

The research, conducted by Kenji Itao and Kunihiko Kaneko from the University of Tokyo, Copenhagen University, and the RIKEN Center for Brain Science, delves into how competitive gift-giving practices contribute to the emergence of economic and social disparities within human societies. 1 Itao, K., & Kaneko, K.

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Sapiens

APRIL 3, 2024

In museum archives, researchers found photos of remains from Paleolithic children who had belonged to a group of early Homo sapiens in Eurasia. Please note that this article includes images of human remains. Their remains and the artifacts found with them shed light on this major turning point in human evolution.

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Anthropology for Beginners

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Every world view distinguishes (a) part of the self from another part, thus establishing, as it were, a dialogue within the self; (b) a human nature from that which is nonhuman; (c) classes and categories of the human, i.e., social persons (e.g., Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland 90, no.

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