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Claudia Goldin, Women & Work: The 2023 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences (in Memory of Alfred Nobel)

ACRE

Women have always worked, and yet their economic contributions are often undervalued. Her economic history research expands 200 years to provide an account of women’s participation in labor markets over time and describe the history of women’s continuing economic liberation. Dr. Claudia Goldin wanted to understand why.

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A Remarkable Discovery of a 450,000-Year-Old Tooth in Iran

Anthropology.net

These discoveries paint a vivid picture of recurrent human occupation during the early Middle Paleolithic period, suggesting sophisticated cultural connections with contemporaneous societies in the Caucasus and the Levant.

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Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups (PVTGs)

Anthropology for Beginners

In 2006, during the United Progressive Alliance Regime under the leadership of Prime Minister, Mr. Manmohan Singh, the Government of India initiated National Tribal Policy. The primary aim of the policy was to correct several mishaps of the earlier policies centering on the Tribal population of the country.

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Peasant and Peasantry in Anthropology

Anthropology for Beginners

iii] According to anthropologist George Dalton, “Peasants were legal, political, social, and economic inferiors in medieval Europe. Some scholars emphasized generic cultural or “folk” characteristics of peasants. [vi] vi] These scholars are the generations of researchers inspired most notably by Robert Redfield’s Folk Urban Continuum.

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Elevating Youth Voice in Learner-Centered School Quality Systems

ED Surge

As education leaders continue to engage in conversations on transforming assessment and accountability for our nation, they must prioritize elevating voices excluded from past education change efforts, including voices of young learners, especially those from communities of color and economically disadvantaged communities.

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Baltoscandia: The geopolitical ghost that may just have a future

Strange Maps

But even without a government, a flag, and most other trappings of actual nationhood, Baltoscandia has a history, a raison d’être , and perhaps even a future. You’ve probably never heard of Baltoscandia. It sounds like a made-up country, and that’s because it is a made-up country. Scandinavia is not the same as the Nordics, for example.

Geography 111
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Vocabularies Unknown: The Future Is Personal

Anthropology News

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. Again, is anything ever really new? Generate a summary of the article. Koffi Kouakou: It.