Anthropology News

AUGUST 11, 2024

Some might think that the height of his medical career was when he gave draftee Elvis Presley his physical and psychological examination, but for Len it was his service as an intern at Charity Hospital in New Orleans. Len is best known to historians of anthropology for an article published in 1982 that began a small academic industry.

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Anthropology for Beginners

JANUARY 3, 2021

Approaches: Society has been the central theoretical object of much European anthropology, especially *British social anthropology, so that any history of the theoretical use of the term swiftly becomes a history of anthropological theory.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Anthropology has been quite slow to embrace Helen Schwartzman’s insight in The Meeting: Gatherings in Organizations and Communities (1989) that meetings offer a vital window into collective human projects and organizations. Josh Meyer is the section contributing editor for the Association for the Anthropology of Policy.

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Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 13, 2020

In this guest post, Cori Schwarzrock shares her experience using blended learning models in her AP psychology course. I teach AP Psychology, blended and traditional, at a high school in the northwest suburbs of Chicago. Cori Schwarzrock is an AP Psychology teacher at Cary-Grove High School in Cary, Il. Not sure where to start?

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 16, 2024

Karen Ito was a dedicated anthropologist, committed to promoting the understanding of the diversity of human cultural experience, with significant and wide-ranging contributions to the field of anthropology. She studied anthropology at UCLA, earning her BA in 1969, MA in 1973, and PhD in 1978.

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Anthropology for Beginners

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Worldview Worldview is the set of cultural and psychological beliefs held by members of a particular culture; the term was borrowed from the German Weltanschauung. Social (psychology, sociology, communications, history, cosmology) 4. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland 90, no.

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Kirsten Lindbloom, University of Wisconsin – River Falls Professor Kirsten Lindbloom (she/her/hers) is a faculty member in the sociology, criminology and anthropology department at the University of Wisconsin – River Falls. Professor Lindbloom completed her M.A. in sociology at Minnesota State University, Mankato.

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Anthropology.net

AUGUST 6, 2024

We have fragmented human knowledge into various disciplines—anthropology, psychology, sociology—but none of these fragments fully encompass what it means to be human.” Slimak asserts. "We

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 2, 2021

Until now, the work has been done by students of sociology and psychology and anthropology. For almost as long as there have been wars, there have been people who study veterans. But a specific degree program to study veterans is being launched this fall at Saint Leo University in central Florida.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2022

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.”. Barbara Rogoff, a psychology professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, gives narrative evaluations instead of grades.

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Sapiens

JANUARY 24, 2024

I began researching Parkinson’s fighters and experiences of living with the disease over four years ago for my doctoral research in psychological and medical anthropology. About two-thirds of people also develop muscle tremors.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 10, 2020

In contrast, prior psychological research on learning was often conducted in a lab with artificial tasks and then applied to more realistic educational activities and settings. Sciences of learning recognizes that many sciences inform our understanding of how people learn, such as neuroscience, psychology, sociology, anthropology, and more.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2024

he said, noting that fields like literature, anthropology and psychology also grapple with issues of race, gender and sexuality. But more disturbing, he said, “was the absolute silence on behalf of our administrators” who failed to defend the field or challenge state “meddling” in campus curriculum. What’s next?”

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

The majors whose graduates tend to earn the lowest salaries after graduation are majors such as theater, studio art, creative writing, psychology and anthropology. Related: The number of college graduates in the humanities drops for the eighth consecutive year.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2023

A 2019 survey by the Association for University and College Counseling Center Directors found that nearly 90% of counseling center directors report that the number of students on campus with severe psychological problems has continually increased, and counseling centers struggle to keep up with the demand.

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Anthropology for Beginners

AUGUST 17, 2023

The two concepts are often combined in anthropological writings and they have a close and complex historical relationship. As the antiquity of man became established in the mid-nineteenth century and anthropological inquiry began to focus on evolutionary questions, the need for better data became clear.

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Anthropology for Beginners

MAY 22, 2023

Culture and Personality Culture and personality is the name of a broad unrecognized movement which brings cultural anthropology, psychology and psychiatry together from about 1928 to 1955. After 1960s the field becomes known as psychological anthropology. For Benedict emotional status are typical of particular culture.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Nicole Buff got a bachelor’s degree in criminology and psychology at Indiana State University just as the last recession started. For Peter Wong, it wasn’t necessarily the bachelor’s degree in anthropology he earned at Loyola University Chicago, or even his subsequent law degree. Credit: Molly Haley for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2024

Psychology students studying behavior change helped the campus dining hall adopt a practice of offering half, full and double portions to cut down on food waste. This class has two overarching goals,” said Sheridan, who studied anthropology and sustainable development as an undergraduate before pursuing a doctorate in business.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2022

She was sitting in front of a desktop Dell in a converted brownstone in New York City, clicking through lessons in an online psychology class about stress, when she heard the word “resilience” for the first time. She completely lacked interest in and motivation for her anthropology coursework, which she had previously loved.

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Anthropology for Beginners

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

As the anthropological definition of culture especially by scholars like E.B. Evolutionary psychology (EP): a perspective focused on understanding the evolution of psychological mechanisms resulting in human behavior. Contents style='mso-element:field-begin'> TOC o "1-3" h z u Bio-Cultural Process of evolution.

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Sapiens

JANUARY 9, 2024

The idea of “Man the Hunter” runs deep within anthropology, convincing people that hunting made us human, only men did the hunting, and therefore evolutionary forces must only have acted upon men. Such depictions are found not only in media, but in museums and introductory anthropology textbooks too.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2023

About 3,500 people attended the conference, among them K-12 and higher ed educators who teach the subjects that constitute social studies — including history, civics, geography, economics, psychology, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, law and religious studies.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 17, 2015

I think it’s more psychological than physical. Anthropology professor at UNI, directs the New Iowans Center. .” – our way of subverting the system so they would leave us alone and we could have fun without being bothered. Teachers often are afraid in poor neighborhoods. In 25 years, I’ve never been touched. Fred Rogers (Mr.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

A bachelor’s degree in anthropology from Ithaca College costs $132,656, on average, and two years later, graduates are earning $19,227. A bachelor’s degree in anthropology from Ithaca College costs $132,656, on average, and two years later, graduates are earning $19,227. This story also appeared in The Washington Post.

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Sapiens

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

On top of the starvation, displacement, bombings, and other forms of physical and psychological violence that all Palestinians in Gaza are experiencing in this brutal, ongoing assault, deaf Gazans face additional vulnerabilities that are heightened during times of war.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2016

If a student and their family are paying tens of thousands of dollars per year to study anthropology, they should have some idea about the job prospects. Case Western Reserve senior Evangelina Din, 21, is majoring in cognitive science and psychology with a pre-med focus.

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