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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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A Venezuelan Election … in Chile

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A Multinational, Multiethnic Alternative in Chile’s Migrant Settlements 221 Politicians, 23 Journalists, and Six Human Rights Activists Detained Since the Presidential Elections SAPIENS: A Podcast for Everything Human is produced by Written In Air. Is One Third of Venezuelas Population About to Flee?

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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

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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 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.