Anthropology News

JANUARY 16, 2025

Anthropologist Christopher Tilley beautifully phrases that often in material culture [t]he thing is the person and the person is the thing. These make me wonder at the many silently maintained museums of absence that form an unofficial archive of conflict, telling stories that official histories often overlook.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Deciphering the Plaques: A History of Theories Since the 1800s, scholars have speculated about the meaning of these artifacts, numbering around 1,626 recovered to date. Related Studies These articles expand on themes of material culture, identity, and the anthropological interpretations of Iberian engraved plaques.

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Strange Maps

MARCH 3, 2025

But 21st-century culture wars are no Shakespeare play. Opposite moral universes At issue is a set of heatmaps from a scientific article exploring the moral circles of liberals and conservatives. This graphic is rapidly becoming the most misused and misunderstood image in all of modern history, hyperbolized podcast host Liv Boeree.

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Sapiens

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republished under Creative Commons. ✽ The authors acknowledge the contribution of Abdul Razak Macap, a social anthropologist at the Regional Cultural Heritage Center in Manokwari.)

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

A multidisciplinary team of researchers explains historical, cultural, and ethical issues they considered while developing a 3D scan of a South African site to be shared with the world online. This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republished under Creative Commons.

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Anthropology News

DECEMBER 3, 2024

David Sapir, a cultural and linguistic anthropologist, West Africanist, and scholar of folklore and ethnographic photography, died August 31, 2024, at the age of 91. He loved sharing scuttlebutt, scrambling high/low culture distinctions, and collecting vintage model electric trains.

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Zinn Education Project

OCTOBER 13, 2024

In appreciation for your feedback , we’ll send you a people’s history book. Lesson Whose History Matters? history classes, I would ask students about “that guy some people say discovered America.” The film explores the history of what transpired in 1492 and after, and how “Columbus” has been used throughout U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2024

After reading Jill’s article, I decided to dig a little deeper and speak to some of those teachers. For some subjects, like history, teachers say it’s hard to find comprehensive curricula that not only includes histories of marginalized communities but also includes a state’s local communities.

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Society for Classical Studies

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Those relations left a permanent mark on the Peninsula and the vestiges of Ancient Roman culture still abound not only there, but also in other countries which came under Iberian influence. Material culture remains from the Roman times on the Peninsula’s territory. Political, economic and commercial relations in the ancient times.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 22, 2024

This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republished under Creative Commons. ✽ Evolutionary, cultural, and social processes that seem unimaginable if we try to apply them to sapiens populations, as we understand them through cultural anthropology, history, and archaeology.

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Anthropology News

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Rationally, I know my choice not to buy bananas (or pineapple) is so minimal within the issue when you think about the overall systemic structure, complexity, and history of our unjust food system. There’s no one best diet for every person, and you have to consider your access, your means, culture, and your preferences.

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Teaching American History

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Teaching American History is excited to announce the release of our latest core document volume, the second edition of Free Speech. The incorporation doctrine authorized the Supreme Court for the first time in its history to review state laws that potentially infringed upon the First Amendment. Interested in bulk purchasing?

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 15, 2024

This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republished under Creative Commons. ✽ In 2013, Graeber wrote an article for the obscure left-wing magazine STRIKE! Graeber’s book is conversational in style, drawing on history, literature, sociology, anthropology, and pop culture to support his arguments.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 12, 2022

The best class I ever taught centered on the history of Washington, D.C. I was so excited to teach this class, I spent the summer collecting articles and artifacts from the local library and historical society. They learned about the history of their neighborhoods and the origins of the music they listened to.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 31, 2010

Jenny Eisenberg, from the Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs arranged for the teachers to visit our school. The news video aired on the evening of Friday March, 25 2010 and a corresponding article was published as well. Department of Education. So where does the building connections come into play?

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Anthropology News

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

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. I reached out to the authors of these articles and other scholars from that time to ask just that. What happened?

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Studies Weekly

MAY 2, 2024

A Teacher’s Guide to Celebrating Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month May 2, 2024 • Studies Weekly Diverse perspectives strengthen education, according to Heather Singmaster’s EdWeek article from November 2018. They broaden students’ view of history and teach them to respect people from different cultures.

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Sapiens

JANUARY 31, 2024

Such interest also distracted from the breakthrough’s Nobel-worthy value: answering scientific questions about species’ history and evolution. JURASSIC PRESSURES The influence of pop culture on aDNA fluoresced with Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park in 1990. They found none. Once more, aDNA made headlines.

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C3 Teachers

APRIL 10, 2022

I recently zoomed with Nick S tamoulacatos, Supervisor of Social Studies at Syracuse City School District and one of the writers on the article “Countering the Past of Least Resistance” in that latest Social Education. We talked about Syracuse City Schools inquiry initiative and the inquiry loop featured in the article.

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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. Doing so also offers valuable resources that can be used to help bring history to life.

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Anthropology News

JULY 15, 2024

How do we care for objects, archives, words, history, traditions, animals, plants, ideas, and obligations? Feature articles should be around 2,000 words, photo essays should consist of six to eight high-resolution images with a 750-word introductory essay, and audiovisual work can be developed in consultation with AN editors.

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Pedagogy to Share

OCTOBER 20, 2022

When I arrived in Rethymnon in Crete from Israel, I knew I would be participating in a GatherED international workshop about language education in multi-lingual and multi-cultural classroom environments. Together we explored Cretan history and culture through the centuries.

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 22, 2023

article, video, podcast). Exploring Different Cultures: When discussing cultural differences and traditions, the teacher could prompt students to share their initial assumptions and how their views changed as they learned about diverse cultures. This encourages cultural sensitivity and open-mindedness.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

With other current events, I’m quick to brush up on the latest news, curating articles for my students to discuss in class. Sports and Culturally Responsive Teaching My school sits just six miles from the border with Mexico, and many of my students cross that border daily to attend school in the United States.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 3, 2023

The external forces have to do with the conversation that the culture is having about cancellation, about what authors are OK, about what books are OK and what content is OK. And this seeps into the college culture within the context of a classroom. They might have been in AP African American history.

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Anthropology for Beginners

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Worldview Worldview is the set of cultural and psychological beliefs held by members of a particular culture; the term was borrowed from the German Weltanschauung. In Redfield’s book The Folk Culture of Yucatan (1941), he expressed an embryonic concern with the concept of world view.

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Anthropology News

AUGUST 11, 2024

Through an audio essay, inspired by John Akomfrah’s documentary “The Last Angel of History,” attention is drawn to South Africa’s evolving visual scene and its engagement with cultural nuances within the NFT AI space. Generate a summary of the article. Kagiso Mnisi: Is anything ever really new?

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 29, 2024

We invite submissions that probe the anthropological dimensions of AI: how it affects and is affected by human behavior, social norms, and cultural practices. How can we understand AI in the broader history of humans and technology? Feature articles should be approximately 2,000 words. And is humanity shaping AI?

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Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

A widely-published writer, he’s the author, co-author, or editor of four music history books and many essays and articles. The post The History of Black Music — A Love Supreme appeared first on Zinn Education Project. Ramsey, Jr. Who Hears Here? On Black Music, Pasts and Present (2022) is his latest book.

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Edthena

JULY 22, 2021

From teaching Black history year-round to social and emotional wellness for teachers, we have highlights and article links for you–easy to read, even beachside. Don’t confine teaching about Black history to February. During Black History Month, resources for teaching about Black history abound.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 1, 2018

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. This article is a part of The Conversation’s series on unique courses. For other articles in this series, read here and here. It is not a “history course for engineers.” Read the original article.

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Anthropology.net

JULY 6, 2024

Their findings are presented in a review article published in the journal Cambridge Prisms: Extinction , which synthesizes and analyzes over 300 scientific articles across various research fields. This figure shows how the extinction of large mammals during the late Quaternary period is related to their body size.

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Strange Maps

MARCH 1, 2024

For Vinci, a nuclear engineer by training and an amateur historian by passion, the clues added up to a shocking revelation: Those Homeric stories, cornerstones of ancient Greek and modern Western culture, do not take place in and around Greece, in southern Europe, but rather near the Baltic Sea, in northern Europe.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

It also offers a YouTube channel on which historians discuss their work , making history come alive for contemporary youth. The UC Davis California History Social Science Project frames current events within their historical context , connecting students’ present to the past. We’d subscribe to feeds and listen to podcasts from the U.S.

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Anthropology News

APRIL 30, 2024

Credit: Wikimedia Commons Barbuncho, the Dog behind the Story Back in 2014, my heart skipped a beat when I began to read a widely circulating article about a “stray” dog who “adopted a team of Swedish trekkers in the Amazon.” It was a fantastic story, but it felt eerily familiar.

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NCHE

MARCH 7, 2023

It seems appropriate to recognize women who were teachers at a challenging time in our history. Photograph: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library. 1) Classrooms were crowded and inadequate, and teachers taught with limited resources. “Lottie Grimke.”

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 23, 2025

For them, the barriers to converting Chinese expatriates are cultural instead of ontological: not a matter of different kinds of souls, as described by some other Zambian Christians, but rather of linguistic misunderstanding. This greatly impressed Mr. Cheng. Witnesses instead work to spread what they refer to as the truth to all humans.

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