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Feminist Anthropology Today: Thinking about Gendered Binaries, Violence against Women, and the Praxis of Feminist Anthropology

Anthropology News

This entry marks our departure as Contributing Editors for the Association for Feminist Anthropology’s (AFA) column in Anthropology News ( AN ). We also write to reflect on the works we patiently, lovingly, and laboriously shepherded into publication over the past four years and what they reveal about feminist anthropology.

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Bringing Anthropological Concepts to Life in a Virtual Peer Exchange

Teaching Anthropology

In this instance, the online platform Flip enabled cross-institutional, cross-border student interactions to discuss cultural similarities and differences— core subject matter of anthropology. Seventy undergraduate Anthropology students at The University of the West Indies (UWI) St. How are areas of life informally sexually segregated?

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The Emic Perspective of Generative AI

Teaching Anthropology

For anyone who has been teaching anthropology over the last two years, the latter will be of no surprise to you. (As While AI has simply not been in the hands of students long enough to have longitudinal data on its impacts, there is a growing slew of research that touts it as a learning tool for non-traditional students (such as Dai et al.,

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Bleeding-Edge Praxis: Leveraging Anthropology and Feminist Science for Emerging Issues

Anthropology News

As a period researcher, people often tell you unsolicited personal information like this. All subdisciplines of anthropology recognize the importance of contextualizing events, creating a discipline that respects paying attention while withholding judgment and remaining flexible during research. On February 1 when I asked (Fig.

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An Archaeological Adventure

Teaching Anthropology

By Erin-Lee Halstad McGuire, Department of Anthropology, University of Victoria, Canada. The textbook I use has a fairly traditional coverage of archaeology. What evidence informed your conclusions?” But these things don’t translate well to the lecture hall as they are resource intensive.

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Branches of Biological Anthropology

Anthropology for Beginners

It is also known as physical anthropology, which originally referred to the study of human biology within the framework of evolution and with an emphasis on the interaction between biology and culture. Physical anthropology is the original term, and it reflects the initial interests of anthropologists in describing human physical variation.

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Gathering Firewood—and Redefining Land Stewardship—at Bears Ears

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Since European contact, Indigenous people have struggled to protect the lands —which outsiders often describe as a vast “ outdoor museum ”—from vandalism and desecration, organizing through formal and informal channels for the protection of the Bears Ears landscape. It’s too early to tell the overall impacts of this plan’s implementation.

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