Sapiens

APRIL 2, 2025

A Tanzanian historian and poet conjures alternative engagements with Black African women who were marginalized by violent colonial histories and imprisoned in the archives. For, I work extensively on Tanzanian heritage and human remains entrapped in Germany. The archive was a burial site.

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Anthropology for Beginners

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

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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Anthropology News

MARCH 27, 2025

Cultural artifacts, traditions, and knowledge do not simply move; they shift, adapt, and sometimes disappear in the process. Open-access sites like Annas Archive challenge these barriers, much like underground migration networks, offering access but risking legal suppression. Digital artifacts follow the same patterns.

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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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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 10, 2024

An anthropologist takes a critical eye to a long-running holiday tradition: a U.S. 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. On a balmy December morning at Andersen Air Force Basea U.S.

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