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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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