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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. ”

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Revisiting the Spiritual Violence of BS Jobs

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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. Sometimes a related field called “sciences of learning” is confused with learning sciences.

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

The Hechinger Report

Critics respond that replacing traditional A to F grades with new forms of assessments is like a college-level version of participation trophies. Disabatino, now a UCSC junior double-majoring in psychology and anthropology and also the first in her low-income family to go to college, said: “I kind of felt like a deer in the headlights.”.

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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). 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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Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups (PVTGs)

Anthropology for Beginners

In 2006, during the United Progressive Alliance Regime under the leadership of Prime Minister, Mr. Manmohan Singh, the Government of India initiated National Tribal Policy. The primary aim of the policy was to correct several mishaps of the earlier policies centering on the Tribal population of the country.

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