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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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Teaching Syndemics

Teaching Anthropology

MerrillSinger, PhD, University of Connecticut The COVID-19 pandemic brought enhanced global attention to the anthropological concept of syndemics. As medical anthropologist Lance Gravlee observed, syndemics has achieved a broader reach than most anthropological ideas. A Companion to Medical Anthropology. It is a syndemic.

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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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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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William K. Powers

Anthropology News

In the mid-1960s he published the magazine Powwow Trails and began authoring books for general audiences, including: Indian Dancing and Costumes , Indians of the Northern Plains , Indians of the Southern Plains ,and two childrens books, Crazy Horse and Custer and Young Brave. Powers appeared first on Anthropology News. McAllester.

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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: Care

Anthropology News

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. The post Call for Pitches: Care appeared first on Anthropology News.