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Best of SAPIENS 2024

Sapiens

Anthropologists from around the globe brought dazzling insights and deeply reported concerns to the digital pages of SAPIENS magazine. Human Rights Archived Haints By Alma Simba SAPIENS 2024 poet-in-residence conjures the voices of those imprisoned in archives. The post Best of SAPIENS 2024 appeared first on SAPIENS.

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A Linguist’s Night at the Ball

Sapiens

Dozandri explores the representation of Puerto Rican linguistic practices in the archive of ballroom history. SAPIENS is an editorially independent magazine of the Wenner-Gren Foundation and the University of Chicago Press. SAPIENS: A Podcast for Everything Human is part of the American Anthropological Association Podcast Library.

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Call for Pitches: Care

Anthropology News

Issued: July 15, 2024 Pitches due: rolling until November 1, 2024 First drafts due: 3 weeks after pitch decision Submit Here Anthropology News invites submissions on the forms of care that permeate human and nonhuman worlds. How do we care for objects, archives, words, history, traditions, animals, plants, ideas, and obligations?

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Making Anthropological Poetry Reel

Sapiens

Students were free to choose their poems from the dozens that have been featured at the magazine and to create a social media post that could be published. To avoid stereotypes about Ethiopia, we used imagery that was inclusive—from archival to modern and from urban to landscape.

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A Poetics of Liberation: An Imagined Archive

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A Tanzanian historian and poet conjures alternative engagements with Black African women who were marginalized by violent colonial histories and imprisoned in the archives. As the 2024 poet-in-resident at the magazine, she imaginatively reaches for new possibilities.

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Teaching Syndemics

Teaching Anthropology

Moreover, with regard to syndemics Horton tweeted , The anthropology community is ahead of medicine and public health.Once labeled a little-known buzzword that nonetheless describes our troubled times in Smithsonian Magazine , syndemic theory now informs a rich body of health research and interventions. New York: Wiley, 2021. 2 nd Edition.

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Revisiting the Spiritual Violence of BS Jobs

Sapiens

In 2013, Graeber wrote an article for the obscure left-wing magazine STRIKE! Such roles are prevalent in areas such as finance, admin, law, marketing, and human resources. Read more from the archives: “ The Anthropology Professor in an Amazon Warehouse.” titled “ On the Phenomenon of B t Jobs.”