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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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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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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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How a Portrait Project Showed Teachers Through a Whole New Lens

Cult of Pedagogy

Ryan, Director of Photography for The New York Times Magazine , picked up her cell phone one day and started taking “artsy” photos of her office and of the people in it. So recently, I invested in an iPhone photography course because I was interested in learning more about the capabilities of my phone’s camera. Now, it’s your turn.

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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.

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William K. Powers

Anthropology News

In the mid-1960s he published the magazine Powwow Trails and began authoring books for general audiences, including: Indian Dancing and Costumes , Indians of the Northern Plains , Indians of the Southern Plains ,and two childrens books, Crazy Horse and Custer and Young Brave.