Anthropology.net

MAY 22, 2024

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.

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Sapiens

JUNE 17, 2024

Archives often render marginalized people’s histories invisible. In response to such erasure, a poet writes a letter to explore the experience of historically enslaved African and Creole women in Tanzania and Mauritius—and the ways in which they may have navigated their lives.

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C3 Teachers

MARCH 30, 2022

Image of New York State Archives and Museum in Albany, New York Making connections with cultural centers offers educators a measure of expertise outside their own content knowledge and pedagogical skill. the New York State Archives and Museum , and the Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural Site ) is essential to my instructional practice.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

I started learning about the diaspora through books and archives when I attended a historically Black university (HBCU) for graduate school. I learned how the absence of so many Igbo and Yoruba people felt for some growing up in West Africa under European reign.

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NCHE

APRIL 3, 2023

In addition to this Lincoln investigation, my students wanted to explore our community’s sundown town heritage, an episode of Native American protests, unresolved episodes of violence and murder, postindustrial decline, and even a local witch trial that occurred in our region before the Civil War.

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Strange Maps

AUGUST 24, 2023

Credit : Universal History Archive / Getty Images) And that’s not all that’s wrong with this map. Credit : Fine Art Images / Heritage Images / Getty Images) One of the more intriguing mentions in the Book of Roger is of Irlandah-al-Kabirah (“Great Ireland”), one day’s sailing from Iceland. For starters, you’re seeing it upside-down.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Read more from the archives: “ Stop Projecting Nationalism Onto Stonehenge.” Thomas recognize that most of the igneous bluestones came from the Mynydd Preseli in Pembrokeshire in southwest Wales. Our ongoing work has refined the sources of these igneous bluestones to individual crags on the northern slopes of the Preseli hills.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 24, 2024

We hope that “å falle mellom to stoler”—which includes a physical exhibition with sculptures created by Jelsen and two publications (one forthcoming) featuring archival images, interviews, and critical essays by collaborators—can contribute to this vital work. Organizations like ours cannot, and should not simply stop existing.

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Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

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.”

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Sapiens

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Black African women in former colonial centers such as London gesture to subversive ways of communicating with those imprisoned in archives across generations. you survive. here, at the point of no return, no leaving, only arrival to a Motherland that shuns you. her cabinets of curious, trapped skins, leather hides.

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Sapiens

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The region had, and still has, a rich cultural heritage: For instance, today eight Native languages are spoken in FSM alone. Read on, from the SAPIENS archives: Requiem for a War Robot. Their descendants enjoyed a hearty diet of fish, taro, yams, breadfruit, and coconuts, and developed a thriving inter-island economy.

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

But the reason extremist organizations successfully recruit among the disenchanted is not because of a shared, unchanging cultural heritage among their members. ORGANIZING MILITIAS Most of the militia members I met in Virginia were self-identified men of Western, Northern, and Eastern European heritage.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

It’s called rapid onset gender dysphoria,” Justice said, referring to a disorder described in a paper published last year in the scientific journal Archives of Sexual Behavior that has since been retracted. She also raised concerns about what she called “a social contagion that has taken over in our country.

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