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Cementing the Past

Sapiens

A cover of Unifruitco Magazine , a publication of the United Fruit Company, promoted the companys restoration project at Zaculeu. candidate in anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. SAPIENS is an editorially independent magazine of the Wenner-Gren Foundation and the University of Chicago Press.

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Bertrand Russell’s 10 Essential Rules Of Critical Thinking

TeachThought

Psychology, Neurology, and even Anthropology all have had a louder voice in ‘education,’ which may explain why critical thinking seems to be so often missing from most school and curriculum design. This, to a degree, reduces the function of pure philosophy. There are exceptions, of course.

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Call for Pitches: Signal/Noise

Anthropology News

Issued: January 17, 2025 Pitches due: rolling until February 7, 2025 First drafts due: 3 weeks after pitch decision Submit Here Anthropology News invites submissions on the theme of signal/noise. Think short-form magazine-style stories with scientific bitelow on jargon, high on storytellingor compelling photo essays or multimedia pieces.

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A Linguist’s Night at the Ball

Sapiens

Dozandris research has been supported by a Society for Visual Anthropology/Lemelson Foundation Fellowship, the Duberman-Zal Fellowship from the Center for LGBTQ+ Studies, and grants from the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center at UCSB. SAPIENS: A Podcast for Everything Human is part of the American Anthropological Association Podcast Library.

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Making Anthropological Poetry Reel

Sapiens

In featuring three SAPIENS poems, students in a digital anthropology seminar infused video reels for Instagram with vivid history and powerful emotions. ✽ For a digital anthropology seminar at the University of Denver, I asked my students: “Why do the pressures of our lived realities demand a response through poetry?”

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Where Cultures Collide

Sapiens

Through the lens of anthropology, we will examine what happens when human cultures meet, merge, and clashand what these encounters reveal about humanitys shared fate. SAPIENS is an editorially independent magazine of the Wenner-Gren Foundation and the University of Chicago Press. Christine Weeber is the copy editor.

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Call for Pitches: Invisibility

Anthropology News

Submit Posted: 3/31/25 Deadline: 5/1/25 Anthropology News invites submissions on the theme of invisibility. Anthropology News encourages submissions in a variety of formats to present compelling stories that make anthropological insights accessible to a wide audience.