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The Timing Is Right for Anthro-Journo

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

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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. As I did so, I waved to the manager, Giorgos.

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

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This shift detached investors from the personal aspect of a debt relationship, allowing them to earn 20 to 30 percent annual interest—significantly higher than the 3 to 5 percent offered by traditional banks. The post Deception as Investment: How to Make Digital Ponzi Schemes in China appeared first on Anthropology News.

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Urban Anthropology

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

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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.

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AI for Learning: Experiments from Three Anthropology Classrooms

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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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Speaking Truth to Israel Requires More Than Academic Freedom

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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.