Teaching Anthropology

DECEMBER 13, 2024

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. It is a syndemic.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Anna Apostolidou PhD, Assistant Professor of Social Anthropology, Ionian University Given the history of our discipline, it seems rather peculiar that anthropologists are not more “naturally inclined” to employ multimodality in their research and teaching.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 26, 2025

For decades, researchers have debated the evolutionary forces behind these differences. To track these changes, researchers compared skulls from 128 modern humans, 13 Neanderthals, and 33 chimpanzees. Related Research Neanderthal Facial Growth and Adaptation Bastir, M., & Rosas, A. A byproduct of powerful biting forces?

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Sapiens

JANUARY 9, 2025

An anthropologist and poet reflects on a journey of return that tells a larger story about human connection, acts of Indigenous solidarity, and the potential for repair within anthropology. IN 2023, I BEGAN the process of consultation toward repatriation on behalf of the anthropology department. While the U.S.

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Teaching Anthropology

APRIL 13, 2024

Initially the VMP was run through the course learning management system to release a unique anthropological case scenario to each PBL group, comprised of three weekly clues culminating in a larger VM report at the end of the term. The VMP content spans the subfields of biological anthropology (evolutionary, primatology), and archaeology.

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Teaching Anthropology

DECEMBER 16, 2023

In preparation for a class based my 2022 article in Teaching Anthropology, Toward a Pedagogy for Consumer Anthropology: Method, Theory, Marketing , I provided ChatGPT with the following prompt: Use the research findings below to create 12 marketing ideas for Duncan Hines cake mix. Teaching Anthropology. 69 (3): 252-262.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 25, 2025

By analyzing cores from Egypt's Nazlet Khater region and Dhofar, Oman, the researchers tested several hypotheses about Levallois toolmaking: Was core shape independent of size, as suggested by the principle of "autocorrelation," meaning the shape remained consistent despite reduction in size through use? J., & von Cramon-Taubadel, N.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Intersectional Anthropology. Here, I share about my class, “Intersectional Anthropology,” and reflect on some of the ways it has played into my career, while also acknowledging my privileges as a person who holds a Ph.D. and, in the context of international research, has United States citizenship.

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Teaching Anthropology

MAY 8, 2023

Marilou Polymeropoulou, University of Oxford, School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography Active learning is a well-established pedagogical strategy in secondary and tertiary education where independent learning and critical thinking are nurtured. Three challenges in teaching anthropology. Teaching Anthropology 1 (2), pp.

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Anthropology for Beginners

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

It is also known as physical anthropology, which originally referred to the study of human biology within the framework of evolution and with an emphasis on the interaction between biology and culture. Physical anthropology is the original term, and it reflects the initial interests of anthropologists in describing human physical variation.

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Teaching Anthropology

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

ELIZABETH KEATING, Professor of Anthropology & Graduate Faculty, Human Dimensions of Organizations, The University of Texas at Austin Teaching through research is recognized as one of the strengths of anthropology. The students used questions I developed and used in my research project.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 5, 2024

A recent study led by researchers from London’s Natural History Museum and the KU Leuven Institute of Philosophy reignites the debate over whether Homo sapiens and Neanderthals ( Homo neanderthalensis ) should be classified as separate species. The researchers argue that interbreeding alone should not determine species classification.

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Anthropology News

DECEMBER 3, 2024

He majored in anthropology at Yale, writing a thesis on African folktales. His early anthropological career was influenced by Claude Lévi-Strauss. David came to the University of Virginia in 1973, where he taught for 34 years and was a pivotal figure in building the newly established Department of Anthropology in the 1970s and 1980s.

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Sapiens

DECEMBER 4, 2024

DECOLONIZING SPAIN’S MUSEUMS In my work as a curator of archaeological assemblages at the British Museum and as a bio-archaeology researcher at the Natural History Museum in the United Kingdom, I have observed how nations and cultural institutions grapple with their colonial legacies.

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Anthropology.net

JANUARY 18, 2025

New research, published in Nature 1 by an international team of researchers led by the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, delves into the lives of two neighboring Avar communities in Lower Austria. Related Research **Pohl, W. “The Avars: A Steppe Empire in Central Europe, 567–822.”

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Key Evidence Supporting Genealogy The breakthrough in this research emerged when a particularly unique plaque in Lisbon’s Museu Geológico caught Professor Lillios’s attention. Related Studies These articles expand on themes of material culture, identity, and the anthropological interpretations of Iberian engraved plaques.

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Anthropology for Beginners

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

iv] Anthropological attention to Peasant study: Although Robert Redfield’s fieldwork in Mexico as early as 1926 is considered to be the first attempt to see peasant as an analytical category, the study of peasant or the use of the term peasant is quite old. Some scholars emphasized generic cultural or “folk” characteristics of peasants. [vi]

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 8, 2025

The discipline has long been dominated by Western researchers conducting fieldwork on African soil, often with little collaboration or credit given to local scientists. This exclusionary model limits 5 the ability of African scholars to lead research on their own fossil heritage​ Efforts are underway to change this. 1 Dart, R.

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Sapiens

JANUARY 31, 2024

The morning of my 26th birthday, I woke up to incredible news for my field of evolutionary anthropology: For the first time, the study of human evolution won a Nobel Prize. But because his 1984 paper appeared in a journal published in East Germany, the research did not reach global scientists or publics.

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

A Revolutionary Theory in Anthropology Human culture is a remarkable, complex phenomenon, often seen as a defining feature that sets humans apart from other species. Unlike animal cultures, which are limited in scope and depth, human culture accumulates, adapts, and continually evolves, empowering our species to dominate the planet.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Published in Archaeological Research in Asia 1 , the research introduces a computational approach that reveals unexpected complexity in the architectural development of Neolithic settlements. By digitizing and analyzing architectural remains, researchers can uncover patterns that qualitative approaches often miss.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 4, 2024

By comparing the DNA of these ancient canids to that of modern dogs, wolves, and older Siberian wolf populations, the researchers uncovered genetic relationships. Alternatively, some wild canids may have been kept as pets and others hunted,” the researchers noted. Journal : Journal of Anthropological Archaeology , 2019.

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Sapiens

APRIL 1, 2025

candidate in anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research explores how archaeology as a discipline has been used in U.S. SAPIENS: A Podcast for Everything Human is part of the American Anthropological Association Podcast Library.

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

Bae of the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and senior researcher Xiujie Wu from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the research sheds light on a complex evolutionary period in Asia’s late Middle and early Late Pleistocene. Led by Professor Christopher J.

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Researchers from the University of Tübingen have found that australopithecine hands exhibited the necessary muscle attachments for complex object manipulation. These attachment sites adapt and strengthen with frequent use, allowing researchers to infer habitual behaviors. "By A new study shows that A. afarensis and A.

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Teaching Anthropology

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Each graduate student brings their own specialized research focus to the table, enriching the legacy of the SWP. The post Excavation and Education: Lessons Learned as Teaching Assistants in the Schreiber Wood Project Field School first appeared on Teaching Anthropology.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 3, 2024

By integrating insights from developmental psychology, researchers have identified playful and imaginative marks made by young artists, fundamentally rethinking prehistoric creativity. This new research confronts that narrative, positioning children as active creators whose unique contributions have long been overlooked.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Nobel Prize winning economists Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo, a husband and wife research team at MIT, documented how teenage street sellers who were excellent at mental arithmetic werent good at rudimentary classroom math. Related: Our free weekly newsletter alerts you to what research says about schools and classrooms.

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

Among the latest findings, researchers have uncovered bone needles crafted from the remains of fur-bearing animals, suggesting these ancient humans produced garments that helped them survive cold climates. An eyed needle made from the bone of a red fox found at the LaPrele archaeological site in Wyoming’s Converse County.

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Anthropology.net

JANUARY 27, 2025

By combining genetic data with a vast database of over 2,000 mythological motifs, this research uncovers how the tales we tell may trace back to the Out of Africa migration, some 60,000 years ago. Future research incorporating additional cultural factors could provide a more nuanced understanding.

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Anthropology News

MARCH 4, 2025

Over a networking coffee, an archaeologist who maps cilln in several Northern counties told me that in fact it had been the Tuam childrens burial ground that inspired her research in the first place. Lauren Crossland-Marr is the section contributing editor for the Society for the Anthropology of Europe.

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Anthropology.net

JANUARY 23, 2025

Data from Prehistoric Sites The research team, including Dr. Andrew W. For this study, the researchers focused on zooarchaeological evidence—animal remains—from European sites inhabited by humans. ” Related Research **Stiner, M. ” Journal of Archaeological Research. ” Quaternary Research.

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Anthropology News

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

“Yet, the social science with perhaps the most to offer budding journalists, anthropology, has often been excluded from the chosen courses.” “The Merging anthropology and journalism was attempted through the ‘70s into the aughts. Allen, ” Anthropological Methods Relevant for Journalists” by S. Grindall and Robin Rhodes.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The researchers argue that the victims’ treatment was an act of dehumanization—an attempt by the attackers to reduce their enemies to the status of animals. The researchers propose that the violence may have been driven by social tensions rather than resource competition. Early Bronze Age Britain (c. link] Smith, G.

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

leading research excavations, the Durotriges project of the University of Bournemouth. While some of the press coverage about the new research portrayed the findings as a surprise, archaeologists were far from shocked. The new findings come from individuals buried at the Late Iron Age cemetery of Winterborne Kingston in Dorset.

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Anthropology News

MARCH 31, 2025

The faculty involved in the project have appreciated the support, time, and expertise of the museum staff, and the museum staff in turn have appreciated collaborating with faculty with research-area expertise in immigration studies topics and, through faculty, connecting with students to prepare for the installation of the exhibit.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 30, 2024

As our team of researchers drove southeast through Utah toward Bears Ears National Monument , changes in the landscape unfolded around us. But our research on firewood gathering by Diné people shows the federal government can do more to ensure the promises of equitable co-management. management policies that limit their access.

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