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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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Other Anthropology Schools: Translating Disciplinary Treasures for “Undisciplined” Minds

Anthropology News

The courses covered many domains—design, medicine, the environment—but most featured an anthropological flair, and most of the organizers had an anthropology background. I titled my course—one of the four core courses—“Tears of the Earth: An Anthropological Thinking Experiment.”

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Anthropology Training and Career Preparation: Key Takeaways from Focus Groups

Anthropology News

Recommendations for anthropology programs from the Anthropology Career Readiness Network In January 2023, the Anthropology Career Readiness Network conducted two illuminating focus groups with undergraduate and graduate anthropology students to gain insight into their perspectives on career preparation and the transition from school to work.

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Black Japanese: the African Diaspora in Japan

Perspectives in Anthropology

Written by Neil Turner Almost three decades ago, while at graduate school in California studying anthropology, I had a colleague and classmate from Japan. We had several classes, laboratories and seminars together and spent a lot of time in each other's company. Her name is Yoshi.

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OPINION: Can technology save the liberal arts?

The Hechinger Report

For example, the one archeologist on staff across the five participating campuses developed an anthropology course , delivered as a hybrid seminar in the spring and followed by a summer field school where students excavated indigenous artifacts on Block Island, 13 miles off the coast of Rhode Island.

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Anthropology-Psychology interface

Anthropology for Beginners

Psychological anthropology displays an arc of theoretical approaches ranging from scientific positivism, which embraces objectivity and the scientific method, through various hermeneutic humanisms that emphasize the role of subjectivity in fieldwork and writing (Suárez-Orozco 1994).

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Sally McLendon

Anthropology News

She was part of a pioneering generation of women academics who helped open the fields of anthropology, linguistics, and Native American Studies to women and Indigenous scholars. Sally spent her career in New York City, as Professor of Anthropology and Linguistics at Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center.

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