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Cementing the Past

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A cover of Unifruitco Magazine , a publication of the United Fruit Company, promoted the companys restoration project at Zaculeu. SAPIENS is an editorially independent magazine of the Wenner-Gren Foundation and the University of Chicago Press. candidate in anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Best of SAPIENS 2024

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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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Huh? The Valuable Role of Interjections

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This article was originally published at Knowable Magazine and has been republished under Creative Commons. Artificial intelligence, too, can struggle to use interjections well, she notes, making them the best way to distinguish between a computer and a real human. They should be taught. The post Huh?

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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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A Linguist’s Night at the Ball

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Dozandris research has been supported by a Society for Visual Anthropology/Lemelson Foundation Fellowship, the Duberman-Zal Fellowship from the Center for LGBTQ+ Studies, and grants from the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center at UCSB. SAPIENS: A Podcast for Everything Human is part of the American Anthropological Association Podcast Library.

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Where Cultures Collide

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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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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.