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AI for Learning: Experiments from Three Anthropology Classrooms

Anthropology News

JUNE 27, 2024

AI is shaping our everyday lives, but as anthropology teaching faculty, most of our recent AI-related conversations have had a singular focus: how to deal with generative AI tools like ChatGPT in the classroom. Below, we present case studies from three anthropology courses using three different sets of AI tools.

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Sherry Fukuzawa

Teaching Anthropology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Editor Sherry is the Associate Chair and Assistant Professor Teaching Stream in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto Mississauga, specializing in pedagogical research in biological anthropology, and community-engaged learning with the local Indigenous community.

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Sherry Fukuzawa

Teaching Anthropology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Editor Sherry is the Associate Chair and Assistant Professor Teaching Stream in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto Mississauga, specializing in pedagogical research in biological anthropology, and community-engaged learning with the local Indigenous community.

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The Timing Is Right for Anthro-Journo

Anthropology News

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

“Courses in history, psychology, sociology, and political science are often part of the core curricula in journalism programs,” writes Paula Horvath in Journalism & Mass Communication Educator. Yet, the social science with perhaps the most to offer budding journalists, anthropology, has often been excluded from the chosen courses.” “The

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Practicing Primatology

Teaching Anthropology

AUGUST 24, 2024

By Erin-Lee Halstad McGuire, Department of Anthropology, University of Victoria, Canada My first-year anthropology students are often surprised to learn they will be studying biology as part of their introduction to anthropology. Many students thought they were dodging science by taking a social sciences course.

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Enrollment and financial crises threaten growing list of academic disciplines

The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2020

These have included anthropology, philosophy, languages, art, theater, music and women’s and African American studies. Any time they see an opportunity to attack particularly the humanities and the social sciences, that’s what they’ll go after.”. Rudy Fichtenbaum, president, American Association of University Professors.

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Cultural Dimensions of health - Introduction

Anthropology for Beginners

DECEMBER 9, 2021

A specialised branch of anthropology, i.e, medical anthropology has engage in both basic research into health and healing systems and applied research aimed at the improvement of therapeutic care in clinical settings or community public health programs in prevention and disease control. A specialised branch of anthropology, i.e,

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Hospitality and Care towards the (Un)knowable Stranger in Greek Orthodox Charities

Anthropology News

JULY 20, 2024

The stranger as a general category of analysis stands out within the social sciences precisely for what Georg Simmel dubbed this “constellation” of “near[ness] and far[ness] at the same time.” James Verinis is the contributing editor for the Society for the Anthropology of Europe.

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Leonard B. Glick

Anthropology News

AUGUST 11, 2024

In 1957 Len left medicine for a field that interested him far more, beginning the study of anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania and getting his PhD in 1963. In 1972 he left to join the faculty of the two-year-old Hampshire College as full professor and dean of social sciences.

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Want More Innovation? Try Connecting the Dots Between Engineering and Humanities

Digital Promise

OCTOBER 1, 2018

These founders, hailing from leading universities as well as the US Atomic Energy Commission, IBM Corp and New York Life Insurance, knew that connecting the humanities and sciences helps us make informed judgments about our control of nature, ourselves and our destiny. And thus our course, The Impact of Materials on Society (IMOS) , was born.

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Deception as Investment: How to Make Digital Ponzi Schemes in China

Anthropology News

APRIL 30, 2024

Even amid the industry’s decline, P2P investors unaffected by platform bankruptcy were reportedly “the happiest” in China, per a 2018 China Academy of Social Sciences survey. The post Deception as Investment: How to Make Digital Ponzi Schemes in China appeared first on Anthropology News.

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Navigating the Challenges & Considerations of Fieldwork: APSA’s Committee on the Status of Graduate Students Virtual Workshop

Political Science Now

APRIL 26, 2024

Prior to this position, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Notre Dame’s Kaneb Center and received her PhD from the University of California, Irvine’s Department of Political Science.

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Why I Study Human-Animal Relations as an Anthropologist

Anthropology 365

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Anthropology is the study of humans, or as Dr. Jon Marks says: “the study of who we are and where we come from.” This study was typical of what many people think of anthropology; I participated in the community, attended events, and interviewed Drag performers. animals, plants, fungi, microbes, and the supernatural).

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Alan Harwood

Anthropology News

AUGUST 23, 2024

(1935-2024) On July 5, 2024 Dr. Alan Harwood, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of Massachusetts Boston, died at the Hospice of the Fisher Home in Amherst, Massachusetts surrounded by his children, Jessica and Seth Harwood, and his wife, Margot Welch.

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The Sexual Division of Labor (con’t)

Perspectives in Anthropology

MAY 1, 2024

I spent two years in Jamaica teaching in a new graduate school of social sciences… Sex divisions in the Caribbean and West Africa I spent two years of fieldwork in Ghana for my PhD and published a book, The Political Economy of Agriculture, plus several articles on Ghana’s urban informal economy.

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Urban Anthropology

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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Culture and Personality with special emphasis on Margaret Mead

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. Thomas Barfield (1996) Dictionary of Anthropology. Philip Bock (1999).

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Transforming Data into Human Stories: Machine-Learning-Based Models to Estimate Age-at-Death of Undocumented Migrants

Anthropology News

JUNE 27, 2024

In forensic anthropology (FA), the human identification process is a pivotal and exigent task for forensic personnel, as this process is essential for providing closure to families, aiding in legal proceedings, and ensuring justice. Without understanding all the real implications of our work, we will not offer truly effective solutions.

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Speaking Truth to Israel Requires More Than Academic Freedom

Sapiens

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

But a few days before we met on Zoom to discuss the book, the news broke that Hage had been fired from his position at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Germany. To start, this means insisting that a scholar’s work is more than their social media presence. Everyone was enthusiastic to do so.

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Anthropology against Behavioral Science

Anthropology News

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

However, donors and practitioners seem to assume an easy commensurability between social and behavioral sciences that does not exist in the academy. From there I describe two examples drawn from conversations with other practitioners in the field to illustrate where and why anthropological and behavioral science approaches diverge.

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Colleges rebrand humanities majors as job-friendly

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Its making clear that the skills of engineers and computer scientists increase if you include the arts, the humanities, the social sciences. I think they know we need that push, said senior Liliana Quiroz, who added Italian to her anthropology major after being prodded by a faculty member. Its a question weve ignored.

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Elevating Social Studies with High-Quality Instructional Materials

TCI

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Social studies is more than just a subject—it provides the foundation for understanding and engaging with the world around us. According to the National Council for Social Studies (NCSS) , social studies is the integrated study of social sciences and humanities to promote civic competence.

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Direct Attacks on Science/Social Science in Higher Education through Capping Indirect Cost Rates: Why Anthropologists Should Care

Anthropology News

MARCH 10, 2025

Thus, IDC builds overall research capacity including for anthropologists and anthropology students. ” Science Insider , January 6. The post Direct Attacks on Science/Social Science in Higher Education through Capping Indirect Cost Rates: Why Anthropologists Should Care appeared first on Anthropology News.

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Trump plan would base student loans on employability

The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2016

By the time they’re at the peak of their careers, in their mid-50s, people who majored as undergraduates in the humanities or social sciences earn about $2,000 a year more than their classmates who majored in professional or pre-professional fields, a report by the Association of American Colleges and Universities found.

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Forget Care

Anthropology News

JANUARY 16, 2025

Feminist ethics and political theories of care and caring institutions have succeeding in shaping scholarly trends in the early twenty-first century, evident in the dominance of care in scholarship across the social sciences and humanities. The post Forget Care appeared first on Anthropology News.

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AI for Learning: Experiments from Three Anthropology Classrooms

Sherry Fukuzawa

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Sherry Fukuzawa

The Timing Is Right for Anthro-Journo

Practicing Primatology

Enrollment and financial crises threaten growing list of academic disciplines

Cultural Dimensions of health - Introduction

Hospitality and Care towards the (Un)knowable Stranger in Greek Orthodox Charities

Leonard B. Glick

Want More Innovation? Try Connecting the Dots Between Engineering and Humanities

Deception as Investment: How to Make Digital Ponzi Schemes in China

Navigating the Challenges & Considerations of Fieldwork: APSA’s Committee on the Status of Graduate Students Virtual Workshop

Why I Study Human-Animal Relations as an Anthropologist

Alan Harwood

The Sexual Division of Labor (con’t)

Urban Anthropology

Culture and Personality with special emphasis on Margaret Mead

Transforming Data into Human Stories: Machine-Learning-Based Models to Estimate Age-at-Death of Undocumented Migrants

Speaking Truth to Israel Requires More Than Academic Freedom

Anthropology against Behavioral Science

Colleges rebrand humanities majors as job-friendly

Elevating Social Studies with High-Quality Instructional Materials

Direct Attacks on Science/Social Science in Higher Education through Capping Indirect Cost Rates: Why Anthropologists Should Care

Trump plan would base student loans on employability

Forget Care

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