Anthropology News

JULY 15, 2024

Issued: July 15, 2024 Pitches due: rolling until November 1, 2024 First drafts due: 3 weeks after pitch decision Submit Here Anthropology News invites submissions on the forms of care that permeate human and nonhuman worlds. How do we care for objects, archives, words, history, traditions, animals, plants, ideas, and obligations?

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Anthropology News

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

There was a trend in news coverage of this project which minimized our disciplinary expertise (human biologists and anthropologists who study menstruation), while elevating the dismissive commentary of many MDs who were not specialists in menstruation. We will continue listening.

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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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Anthropology.net

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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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.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 process allowed early humans to extract more energy from crops like wheat and grains, which became staples in post-agricultural societies.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 3, 2024

The evolution of the human brain is one of the most remarkable chapters in our species' history. With its unparalleled size and complexity, the human brain consumes a disproportionate amount of energy relative to the rest of the body. Squirrel monkeys ( Saimiri sciureus ), another large-brain species.

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TeachThought

JULY 2, 2024

Its enduring significance stems from its profound critique of traditional teaching and learning methods. Freire’s work critiques traditional pedagogical practices and offers a compelling vision for a more just and participatory education system. For apart from inquiry, apart from the praxis, individuals cannot be truly human.

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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. The eastern branch of the East African Rift System, encompassing renowned sites like Oldupai Gorge in Tanzania, is one of the most significant sources of early human fossils.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 3, 2024

This suggests that children may have recognized and elaborated upon the figurative potential of their own creations, blending play and representation in a uniquely human way. This research also challenges traditional views that associate prehistoric art solely with adults. Journal : Evolutionary Human Sciences , 2020.

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Anthropology for Beginners

DECEMBER 13, 2021

In its final metamorphosis, influenced by the theories of orientalists, the concept of world view merged with the concept of “Great” and “Little” traditions, which contains a more balanced evolutionary view of the loss of purity. Attitude systems at the level of any world view (mineral, animal, vegetal, human, para-natural) 6.

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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.net

DECEMBER 19, 2024

For decades, archaeologists have described the architectural evolution of early human settlements as a transition from circular to rectangular structures—a shift thought to reflect deeper societal changes. Current Anthropology , 52(5), 619-660. But a new study led by Hadas Goldgeier, Dr. Antoine Muller, and Prof.

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Anthropology News

AUGUST 21, 2024

Narratives of climate apocalypse and Anthropocene dystopia often evoke Christian narratives of the end-times, with environmental change as a symptom of insufficient human piety. 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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Sapiens

OCTOBER 30, 2024

These values rest on the belief that humans are apart from natural systems rather than a part of these systems, creating tensions for federal land managers and residents. Those practicing traditional knowledge only select trees that have died and are not occupied by other forms of life such as insects and birds.

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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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Anthropology News

JUNE 18, 2024

The Spider in the Room Questions about teaching and learning are not new, especially in anthropology. As one student said, “I am mostly concerned about AI replacing human interactions in the classroom.” Still another lamented, “I don’t want to be taught and graded by a robot because it removes the human presence from course work.”

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Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Humans evolved to find connection with other humans and to create spaces that facilitate and sustain that connection through intentional togetherness. Whether what’s needed is ameliorative therapy or the absence of therapy, some connection, meaningful connection, happens in a deeply human way through the shared discomfort.

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Anthropology for Beginners

AUGUST 22, 2022

The word "tribe" has a long and ignoble history and remains one of the most variably used terms within and outside of anthropology (Helm 1968). Service (1962) followed a long tradition in positing tribe as a stage in political evolution falling between more independent BANDS and more centralized and hierarchical CHIEFDOMS.

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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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Anthropology News

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Ariana Gunderson is a PhD student in Anthropology at Indiana University and the Anthropology News Section Editor for SAFN. I always come at that at the individual level: each body is different from a human variation perspective. while maintaining the small joys and the cultural part of food and the tradition.

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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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Anthropology News

AUGUST 11, 2024

These traditional vocabularies continue to obscure the people, places, and acts of creativity on the peripheries of mainstream narratives. But I guess one of my thoughts is that if you look through human history, the idea of an artist as being a career or a revenue generator, I mean, that’s really the exception.

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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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Anthropology News

APRIL 30, 2024

This shift detached investors from the personal aspect of a debt relationship, allowing them to earn 20 to 30 percent annual interest—significantly higher than the 3 to 5 percent offered by traditional banks. The post Deception as Investment: How to Make Digital Ponzi Schemes in China appeared first on Anthropology News.

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Anthropology.net

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Key contributors to the study include Carl Lipo, Professor of Anthropology and Environmental Science; Robert J. ” Rethinking Easter Island’s History The traditional narrative of Easter Island has long been used as a cautionary tale, an example of how human societies can cause their own destruction by depleting natural resources.

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Anthropology.net

AUGUST 2, 2024

As the 2024 Summer Olympics captivate audiences with extraordinary athletic displays, it presents a timely opportunity to delve into the fascinating anthropology of endurance running. This in-depth analysis 1 unravels the evolutionary threads that suggest humans are inherently designed for long-distance running.

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Anthropology News

JUNE 18, 2024

Communication factories that they are, management has the task of reformulating how we do language, eliminating human error while preserving what makes it “human.” For most operators, such skill takes hours of training, on top of years of practice—and even then, no one is immune to human error.

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Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Tzu Chi also extends sentience to Mother Earth, whom Master Cheng Yen frequently invokes as a suffering entity due to human destructiveness. Despite minimizing traditional Buddhist scripture-chanting and rituals, I found Tzu Chi members were deeply religious, and their daily activities were highly ritualized.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 24, 2024

Thirteen US residents—Black, white, and brown—mixed among about 30 community members sipping tinto , a traditional sweet Colombian coffee, and listening to testimonies of those who had been threatened or lost loved ones due to illegal armed groups or mining projects.

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DECEMBER 3, 2024

Johnson, University of Texas at San Antonio As the human population continues to expand into what was once wilderness, people increasingly come in contact with wildlife. Living with Javelinas explores how humans and nonhumans can coexist in ways that respect the autonomy and agency of all beings involved.

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APRIL 11, 2023

Humans and Javelinas: Something Something… I need a title … This study is motivated by the broad pressing question: How do we live in a world full of difference? In these regions, their lives become entangled with those of the humans with whom they share these spaces.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Related: How to save the humanities? Here is what we learned: Student learning in hybrid and traditional classrooms is comparable. We found that faculty-reported gains in student learning in Teagle-funded hybrid or online courses were comparable to gains in traditional classrooms, in line with research findings to date.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Purvis Thompson poses for a portrait at the Brooklyn Public Library after taking an anthropology class offered by Bard College on October 16, 2018. Inside the grand, art deco-influenced building, students study rhetoric and sociology, Antigone and anthropology. One of the first to apply to the new program was a library security guard.

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Anthropology.net

AUGUST 23, 2024

This innovation, used during the Late Pleistocene, adds a new dimension to our understanding of early human survival strategies. Thousands of these points have been recovered, providing clues about the technology and skill of early humans. It’s an order of magnitude different.

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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. Being clear about what we expect in the class can alleviate academic stress.

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Anthropology News

JUNE 27, 2024

These reasons reveal that behind every statistic is a human story, highlighting the harsh realities of a system sustained by structural inequalities. Traditional methods used by forensic anthropologists have been developed from analyzing these degenerative changes in the bones that compose the pelvic girdle, specifically the hip bones.

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