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 News

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

He initially chose to study geography, but soon switched to anthropology, impressed by the introductory lectures in that field of study given by the renowned Africanist André Köbben. He settled on research on the mafia in the Mediterranean. Anthropology professor Jeremy Boissevain became his supervisor.

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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. As we continue this tradition, fostering a connection with the field school, we eagerly anticipate the ongoing journey of learning and growth it offers.

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Anthropology News

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

As an anthropologist, I understand that reflection upon one’s positionality is an important part of the research and writing process. as a researcher who has conducted over 300 studies and analyses of Afro-descendants in the U.S., So, it is with reflexivity that I approach the topic of Black female entrepreneurs in the U.S.:

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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 News

JANUARY 29, 2024

Issued: January 29, 2024 Response deadline: February 23, 2024 Pitch responses: February 29, 2024 First drafts due: March 27, 2024 For our third issue of 2024, Anthropology News is delving into the burgeoning field of artificial intelligence (AI) and its intricate relationship with human reality. And is humanity shaping AI?

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Anthropology News

OCTOBER 7, 2024

The central goal of the Tibetan exile government’s schools is to instruct children in Tibetan language, history, and Buddhist culture, given that, within Tibet, the Chinese government limits access to traditional Tibetan monastic educat ionand criminalizes advocacy for secular Tibetan medium education.

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Anthropology News

JULY 27, 2024

After army service, in 1959, Brown returned to El Camino and declared anthropology as his major. He transferred to UCLA to continue his anthropology courses with M. One of his classmates was Carrie Chu, who was from Hong Kong and was studying anthropology and Southeast Asian history. Smith and Hilda Kuper as his advisors.

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Anthropology for Beginners

MAY 17, 2021

In anthropology the study of the process of Urbanisation started with a debate on weather rural and urban are two distinctively identifiable and isolated poles or not. In anthropology the study of the process of Urbanisation started with a debate on weather rural and urban are two distinctively identifiable and isolated poles or not.

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Anthropology.net

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

A team of researchers from the University of Cape Town and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology has reconstructed the genomes of 13 individuals who lived between 1,300 and 10,000 years ago, revealing crucial insights into human migrations and population stability in southern Africa.

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Anthropology.net

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

The research, conducted by Kenji Itao and Kunihiko Kaneko from the University of Tokyo, Copenhagen University, and the RIKEN Center for Brain Science, delves into how competitive gift-giving practices contribute to the emergence of economic and social disparities within human societies.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 15, 2024

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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Anthropology News

JULY 20, 2024

I hoped that I would soon begin cooking with them on a regular basis as part of my field research on church-based care projects. After briefly describing the nature of my research, my years living in Athens after college, and the fact that my godmother’s childhood home was not far from the parish, Eleni interjected: “So you are Greek, then?

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Anthropology News

AUGUST 21, 2024

In January 2020, I carried out preliminary research in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, where rampant wildfires had engulfed wide swaths of the country each year since August 2010. Taras Fedirko and Whitney Russell are section contributing editors for the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology.

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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. The co-management plan recognizes the deep cultural legacies of Indigenous peoples and establishes a legal basis for ceremonial and traditional practices such as gathering medicines, food, and firewood.

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Anthropology.net

AUGUST 22, 2024

However, recent research underscores the limitations of this approach, highlighting the potential biases introduced by relying on such geographically limited data. The study, led by Assistant Professor of Anthropology W. of the total geographic range of these species.

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Anthropology.net

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

A new study conducted by an international research team, including scientists from the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, has revealed that humans have dramatically increased their capacity to digest starches, marking a significant moment in human evolution.

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Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

My research examines religious environmentalism in Mainland China and Taiwan today—how religious cosmologies, ethics, dietary practices, and rituals may contribute to an alternative ontology of environmental protection that slows climate change. I am now conducting fieldwork in eastern Taiwan, in Hualien County.

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Anthropology.net

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

New research involving faculty from Binghamton University, State University of New York, disproves the widely held belief of a “population crash” on Easter Island, revealing it to be a myth. Key contributors to the study include Carl Lipo, Professor of Anthropology and Environmental Science; Robert J. 1 Davis, D.

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Anthropology for Beginners

DECEMBER 13, 2021

In its final metamorphosis, influenced by the theories of orientalists, the concept of world view merged with the concept of “Great” and “Little” traditions, which contains a more balanced evolutionary view of the loss of purity. Further reading: [link] Further reading for research: Bunzel, Ruth 1952 Chichicastenango: A Guatemalan Village.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Working in Indonesia and Peru, we also use this research, and our close partnerships with local communities and organizations, to spur action that supports gender equality and the basic human right to water. After participating in our research project, Martha realized that water bridges people.

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Anthropology 365

APRIL 11, 2023

In anthropology, a ritual is a set of actions or behaviors that are performed in a repeated, formalized, and symbolic manner. Anthropology classrooms all over the globe serve as a recruiting tool for future paleoanthropologists. They seek out the dead and then treat them like sacred beings.

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Anthropology.net

AUGUST 2, 2024

As the 2024 Summer Olympics captivate audiences with extraordinary athletic displays, it presents a timely opportunity to delve into the fascinating anthropology of endurance running. Amidst the excitement of new sports like break dancing and kayak cross, traditional events such as gymnastics and the marathon continue to captivate.

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Anthropology.net

AUGUST 23, 2024

Recent research 1 has unveiled a remarkable technological adaptation used by the Clovis culture—a system of braced pikes that were likely employed in the hunting of massive megaherbivores and for defense against large predators. But prior to that, and in other contexts with boar hunting or bear hunting, it wasn’t very well known.”

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Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 13, 2020

I teach AP Psychology, blended and traditional, at a high school in the northwest suburbs of Chicago. My online learning activities typically involve the use of short videos, online discussions, student research, podcasts, and various formative assessments. They typically last between 3 and 4 days.

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Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

This was what one of my interlocutors, Fangyi, said to me in the middle of our in-person interview after I told her that I do not use WeChat, except for research purposes, as none of my friends or families were on the app. I mean, you are just someone who has Chinese heritage, right?”

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Anthropology News

JUNE 18, 2024

The Spider in the Room Questions about teaching and learning are not new, especially in anthropology. Students already using GenAI pointed to efficiency: “AI tools have significantly reduced the time I spend on research” or “I use AI tools to summarize articles for my assignments.” I can use this! Woohoo indeed.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Critics respond that replacing traditional A to F grades with new forms of assessments is like a college-level version of participation trophies. The number of college students with one or more mental health problems has doubled since 2013 , according to a study by researchers at Boston University and elsewhere.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 10, 2020

How can research help everyone who is working to improve education, including teachers, educational leaders, designers, technologists, and policy makers? 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.

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Anthropology for Beginners

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Imperialist archaeologies (largely those developed in Britain and America) exert theoretical hegemony over research in the rest of the world through extensively engaging in research abroad, playing a major role in training either foreign students or those who subsequently obtain employment abroad, and in the dissemination of texts.

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Anthropology News

AUGUST 11, 2024

These traditional vocabularies continue to obscure the people, places, and acts of creativity on the peripheries of mainstream narratives. The post Vocabularies Unknown: The Future Is Personal appeared first on Anthropology News. Again, is anything ever really new? But it’s an instrument, it’s a tool.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 24, 2024

Thirteen US residents—Black, white, and brown—mixed among about 30 community members sipping tinto , a traditional sweet Colombian coffee, and listening to testimonies of those who had been threatened or lost loved ones due to illegal armed groups or mining projects. What is solidarity? Perhaps above all, it is to be lived.

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Anthropology News

APRIL 30, 2024

To enhance immersive experience, the performers wore beautiful traditional Mongolian robes, which they rented from an online costume shop. The post The Semi-Conductor Radio Made in Shanghai appeared first on Anthropology News. In the distance, clusters of white yurts dotted the landscape, while scattered herds peacefully grazed.

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Anthropology for Beginners

APRIL 29, 2021

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Definition: Urban Anthropology examines the social organization of the city, looking at the kinds of social relationship and pattern of social life unique to cities and comparing their different cultural and historical contexts. Roberts 1978).

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Anthropology 365

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Through my research for this piece, I recognized a broader, systemic issue: rising reports from around the globe indicate a growing mental health crisis in academia. Research from King’s College London reported that mental health crises among university students nearly tripled between 2016 and 2023.

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Anthropology for Beginners

AUGUST 26, 2020

Development Anthropology Vs Anthropology of Development Development has been seen as a mechanism of social change which is a) associated with postwar reconstruction of underdeveloped areas of the world, b) a mechanism of domination of south by north, i.e. neo colonialism, and c) something that has a close link with capitalism’s need for new markets.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Recent research points to technology as part of the solution. Here is what we learned: Student learning in hybrid and traditional classrooms is comparable. Leave this field empty if you're human: Technology can lead to an unexpected renewal in teaching — both online and in traditional classrooms. It’s a balancing act.

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