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? Think short-form magazine-style stories with scientific bite—low on jargon, high on storytelling.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

In late September, my sophomores were packing up for the day when I noticed a group of boys, heads down, all focusing on what looked to be magazines open on their desks. Our students have rich, cultural lives and dynamic insight into their passions. They lifted each page carefully, with a mix of reverence and deep concentration.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 7, 2024

A free online webinar by SAPIENS Editor-in-Chief Chip Colwell to learn about how to write for the magazine and its peer publications. Ask SAPIENS is a series that offers a glimpse into the magazine’s inner workings. ✽ My name is Chip Colwell, a SAPIENS anthropology magazine, part of Wenner-Gren Foundation.

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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. Petersburg Times , and Deborah Tannen for The New York Times Magazine , The Washington Post , and Vogue to name a few.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 23, 2025

Congregants meet twice a week to read and discuss the Bible, have Q&A sessions for The Watchtower magazine teachings, and sing worship songs. Witnesses adherence to the Bible transcends the kinds of histories in secular society that emphasize a world order dominated by competition between nation states.

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

In featuring three SAPIENS poems, students in a digital anthropology seminar infused video reels for Instagram with vivid history and powerful emotions. ✽ 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.

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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. Kagiso Mnisi: Is anything ever really new? Again, is anything ever really new?

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 7, 2017

Connecting all the pieces, flanked by the high-tech science lab, a fireplace and plush sofas, is a modular, wide-open library of books and magazines for children to enjoy. Some aspects of Finland’s primary schools may be culture-specific and non-transferrable to other nations. ET) on The History Channel.

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Political Science Now

APRIL 8, 2024

Regions that were historically peripheral, often marked by distinctive dialects and cultural traits, developed a collective self-perception of marginality and lower status. It highlights the importance of historical cultural divides, especially those rooted in linguistic differences, in shaping current political behaviors and preferences.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2018

After all, enrollment in history, philosophy, literature and other majors considered to come under the umbrella of the liberal arts has been falling for decades. Colleges are shedding liberal arts programs and faculty. That’s down from a high of nearly one in five in 1967. Related: Ivy League degree: Now what?

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

The New York Daily News reported on February 1 — the start of Black History Month — that a teacher in a majority-minority school in the Bronx, NY, instructed three black children in her seventh-grade class to lie on the floor during a lesson on slavery. Related: When black history isn’t relegated to a single month.

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Dr. Shannon Doak

JANUARY 18, 2019

Overall, a better learning environment and culture is formed.” The difference between hypertext and a linear story, the kind found in books and magazines, is that it allows the reader to have some measure of agency. The teacher can see more clearly what students know and this can help the teacher reach more students.

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

13, 2024 • By Studies Weekly History would not be the same without the inspiring lives of Black humanitarians. For Black History Month, we honor four heroes who advocated for civil rights, fought for the underserved, and spoke out for the welfare of others. 4 Inspiring Black Humanitarians Feb. Black community.

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Zinn Education Project

MARCH 29, 2024

Now my students know that if I am wearing my BLM shirt or Black History Matters shirt at school it is not a performative act — it means that they can hold me accountable to what I have done in and out of class to show that I am living up to that belief. history, racism, and LGBTQ+ identity. history, racism, and LGBTQ+ identity.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

The trailer is just down the road from Hickory, a town Reader’s Digest named one of the 10 best places in America to raise a family and that business magazines have hailed for its entrepreneurial climate. Liberal arts colleges are in crisis,” said Doug Sofer, professor of history at another of these schools, Maryville College in Tennessee.

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Strange Maps

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

” ( Credit : Ernst Haeckel: The History of Creation (1876), translation revised by E. The Kumari Kandam theory remained in history textbooks in southern India’s Tamil Nadu state until the 1980s. Interbreeding with animals eventually produced ape-like ancestors to some of the human races.

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

15 Women from World History Who Made a Difference Mar. 7, 2022 By Studies Weekly World history is full of remarkable women who changed the way we live today. During Women’s History Month or any time of the year, their stories can inspire your students to dream big and make the difference they want to see in the world.

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TeachThought

OCTOBER 10, 2024

StarTalk Radio: Hosted by astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, covering space, physics, and other science-related topics with humor and pop culture references. In Our Time This podcast teaches you a bit more about the history of scientific thought, as well as history, religion, and culture.

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ED Surge

JUNE 2, 2023

But within those blanket terms to describe “minorities” are dozens of cultures with unique heritages, ethnicities, and geographic locations. People from those cultures have nuanced histories, perspectives, and experiences in the U.S. who are not white. and in its schools. Claire Jean Kim, Ph.D., What Can Education Leaders Do?

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2020

This year, she took 25 students to Belize, where they learned about the Garifuna and Mayan cultures. Teachers valued her blackness, she said, and taught her the history of African and African-American strength. Uwahnie Martinez (left), the owner of Palmento Grove Cultural Center in Belize, helps Frederick A.

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Strange Maps

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

For most of history, international summits were royal affairs. For a bit more detail, see this interview with Le Gall in Le Grand Continent , a magazine published by the Groupe d’Études Géopolitiques at the ENS in Paris. This article The surprisingly relevant history of royal summits, in three maps is featured on Big Think.

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Anthropology News

APRIL 30, 2024

However, the thefts continued after the woman identified as the culprit left the sorority, and she would later recant her confession, attributing her suspicious physiological reactions during the test to a repressed history of sexual abuse. In later life, Larson would turn against his invention, calling it a “ Frankenstein’s monster.”

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 20, 2019

“I had been taught, in school, through cultural osmosis, that the flag wasn’t really ours, that our history as a people began with enslavement and that we had contributed little to this great nation.”. Legislators, history activists and those who want to project a positive view of the U.S. Learning the sordid details of U.S.

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Life and Landscapes

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

This is “Extraordinary Voyages, t he Magazine of the North American Jules Verne Society” , Volume 31, Number 2, February 2025 It includes my article about “Charette and Jules Verne.” The wide century surrounding the 1800s was a remarkably unstable period in French history. He was 32 years old.

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Teaching American History

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Teaching American History has recently published World War I and the 1920s: Core Documents , a collection curated by Professor Jennifer D. Keene , Professor of History and Dean of the Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at Chapman University. appeared first on Teaching American History. Held, John, Jr.

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Society for Classical Studies

OCTOBER 9, 2024

In 1975, she was already featured in People Magazine as one of “12 Great U.S. 3 In Edith Hall and Stephe Harrop (eds), Theorising Performance: Greek Drama, Cultural History and Critical Practice. Professors,” having increased enrollment in the program by 20% in two years. London and New York: Routledge, 119.

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Life and Landscapes

OCTOBER 27, 2024

The latest in his Surrounding book series, “Fort Knox including Southern Indiana” is a hefty 760-page mix of—for starters—human, geological, and biological history. Van Stockum Jr. This is a sweeping tour of north-central Kentucky and, just across the Ohio River, south-central Indiana.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

For much of its history, Antioch was ahead of its counterparts in more enviable ways, including its legacy of promoting social justice. “A Antioch publishes the prestigious literary magazine The Antioch Review. The college stayed shut for three years until angry alumni came up with enough money to buy and reopen it.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2024

In 1950, amid the fervor of McCarthyism, the Yale Law Journal delved into a controversy between The Nation and The New York City Board of Education after the left-leaning magazine published articles critical of Roman Catholic church doctrine and dogma. The school board voted to remove The Nation from school libraries.

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Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

No doubt, there is a long history of violence in the region — including the Oct. One cannot understand this tragedy without acknowledging its history. Students need to examine how the current crisis is shaped in large part by settler colonial history, and the role played by world powers. context and shared cultural history.

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Anthropology News

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

User data, in turn, is potentially any information generated via our digital interactions or digitally recorded about us; it might include anything from text conversations to biometrics to credit history—along with any subsequent algorithmic inferring, interpreting, and predicting (however accurate or inaccurate) of our behaviors and attitudes.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Recently, the right-wing magazine The Federalist published a warning to parents in the form of a conspiratorial, unhinged and poorly supported op-ed titled, “ If The Left Ends Parent Rights, You Might Need A License To Raise Your Own Child.” Related: Rewrite the history textbooks, or the white supremacist violence will continue.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 26, 2024

In April 2023, the New York Times Magazine published a profile of her decision to leave the Democratic Party. Included in the intertextual field I analyze below are Sinema’s border outfit, her resignation letter, her understanding of her Senate seat as “exceptional,” the history of the dispossession of the American West, and Arizona politics.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

For years, the Three Rivers Local School District , which includes Taylor High School,has relied on UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, to help broaden minds in a school environment that library media specialist Marney Murphy describes as “sheltered.”. UNESCO relationship.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 25, 2021

The crowd cheered at the idea that people like them — mostly white, mostly male — were the true heroes of American history. High school social studies teachers and scholars of American history don’t deny that the nation’s story is full of mobs, civil unrest and violence. It’s baked into aspects of our culture.”

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 9, 2024

Whitaker to talk about his book, The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America , a history of the idea of Black criminality in the making of the modern United States. I appreciated hearing about the history of how data has been (mis)used to construct a narrative of Black criminality. Thanks, T.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

He’s dead.” ‘We must talk about this real history’: Reactions to ‘divisive concepts’ ban A battle over New Hampshire’s “divisive concepts law” has been brewing in the state since 2021. The Hechinger Report, in partnership with The Boston Globe Magazine, analyzed a 264-letter sample to get a sense of both sides.

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