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An Ode to Jonathan Marks, or How I Became a Marksist

Anthropology 365

I was trying to understand how humans and wildlifeparticularly javelinaslive together in messy, contested landscapes, shaped as much by perception and politics as by biology. Instead, Jon turned his deep grounding in genetics into a sharp critique of how science makes claims about human difference. By the time I left for a Ph.D.

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A Silken Web: How Weaving has Shaped Human History

World History Teachers Blog

Here is an excellent essay by the historian, Peter Frankopan, for AEON Magazine about the significance of silk from its accidental development in China to its use as a "symbol of extravagance and decadence" in Afro-Eurasia. It's a great story and the excerpts are for great for the classroom.

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Huh? The Valuable Role of Interjections

Sapiens

This article was originally published at Knowable Magazine and has been republished under Creative Commons. For most of the history of linguistics, scholars have tended to focus on written language, in large part because thats what they had records of. Utterances like um, wow, and mm-hmm arent garbage, they keep conversations flowing.

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South Africa’s Road Out of Colonialism

Sapiens

A lawyer and anthropologist examines the history of the longest road in South Africa and why a proposed extension may repeat past violence. While researching the history of parole in South Africa, a lawyer and anthropologist discovers the origins of the N2 road, which she drives everyday. Christine Weeber is the copy editor.

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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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Our Quest for More R&R

A Principal's Reflections

In an article for SEEN Magazine Dr. Daggett provides some nice working definitions for these two terms: Rigor - Academic rigor refers to learning in which students demonstrate a thorough in-depth mastery of challenging tasks to develop cognitive skills through reflective thought, analysis, problem solving, evaluation or creativity.

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Where Cultures Collide

Sapiens

For the eighth season of the SAPIENS podcast, were meeting at a crossroads of culturespast and presentin search of humanitys collective destination. Through the lens of anthropology, we will examine what happens when human cultures meet, merge, and clashand what these encounters reveal about humanitys shared fate.