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Bits and Bytes Don’t Leave Bones

Anthropology News

Open-access sites like Annas Archive challenge these barriers, much like underground migration networks, offering access but risking legal suppression. Even open-knowledge projects like the Internet Archive s Wayback Machine face legal threats, echoing the way public records and historical narratives are censored.

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Application of Archaeological Anthropology and Cultural Resources Management

Anthropology for Beginners

Heritage studies constitute a developing field, where it is realized that the world’s cultural heritage is a diminishing resource, and one which holds different meanings for different people. Different state archaeology departments also actively engage themselves in declaring certain archaeologically important artefact as heritage.

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4 Arab American Scientists to Know

Studies Weekly

4 Arab American Scientists to Know Apr 07, 2025 By Studies Weekly NEWSLETTER April is Arab American Heritage Month, a time to recognize the impactful contributions and achievements of Arab Americans in history. His own records document visits to 87 countries. Haray rapidly gained an international reputation for work in graph theory.

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Tackling the Wreckage of War

Sapiens

Local surveyors, construction workers, architects, and engineers documented the destruction as it happened on hand-colored maps, which are now held at the London Metropolitan Archives. Within the London County Council area (roughly covering today’s inner London), more than 73,000 structures were destroyed.

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The Visit

Sapiens

SAPIENS’ 2024 poet-in-residence imagines a wordless conversation with a troubled figure from the past and considers legacies of marginalization during the figure’s life and in archives. as if i have not seen her only in empty documents, in archives drenched in blood. The Visit – Listen the bedroom is a chamber of whispers.

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The Importance of Research in Social Studies Classrooms

Teaching American History

In fleeing the dustbowl conditions of the Midwest, the migrants had “left behind many of their material possessions,” Czarnecki writes, but the folklore collectors “reasoned that they brought instead an intangible cultural heritage in their stories and songs.” In Lawrence, our city commission race is non-partisan.

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Last Chance to Record Archaic Greek Language ‘Heading for Extinction’

Anthropology.net

The exact number of speakers is challenging to determine due to the presence of heritage speakers in the diaspora and the ongoing shift to the Turkish language. Raising the status of minority and heritage languages is crucial to social cohesion, not just in this region, but all over the world.