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In Iron Age Britain, Descent Was Matrilineal

Sapiens

Of course, we must remain clear that grave wealth may not equate to leadership, and archaeologists remain critical about that link. Yet we do find some mention of female leadership in classical texts. Read more from the archives: When Kinship Is Traced Through Women, Their Health Follows.

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Sally McLendon

Anthropology News

She was part of a pioneering generation of women academics who helped open the fields of anthropology, linguistics, and Native American Studies to women and Indigenous scholars. Sally spent her career in New York City, as Professor of Anthropology and Linguistics at Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center.

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From Theory to Praxis: Entrepreneurship as Resistance 

Anthropology News

In autoethnographic work, the researcher conducts anthropological fieldwork on himself/herself/themselves and their experiences. As described by anthropologist Elizabeth Chin, “ Using autoethnography, I turn my anthropological skills toward my own life and experiences, making myself the object of study. ” We must thrive.”

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Revisiting the Spiritual Violence of BS Jobs

Sapiens

The late David Graeber was an American professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics. Graeber’s book is conversational in style, drawing on history, literature, sociology, anthropology, and pop culture to support his arguments. Read more from the archives: “ The Anthropology Professor in an Amazon Warehouse.”

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What is Learning Sciences and Why Does It Matter?

Digital Promise

Studies learning activity systems (not just one component)—such systems that integrate materials, technologies, supports, teacher professional development, assessments, leadership engagement, and other elements required to change teaching and learning.

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Tribe in the evolutionary scheme of social type

Anthropology for Beginners

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). The leadership is rather situational and it is never transmitted from one generation to the next. Similarly the Greek word Phule also represented Indo-European Social Organisations.

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Momentum builds for helping students adapt to college by nixing freshman grades

The Hechinger Report

It “brought to light the stressors students have in their lives,” said Nate Turcotte, an assistant professor in the Department of Leadership, Technology and Research at Florida Gulf Coast University who is using assessments other than grades. The Covid-19 pandemic made things even worse. historians teaching them in their fancy high schools.”.