anthropology

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• 1/31/2021
  

  Hidden in Plain Sight: History Teaching Needs to Take Advantage of Art and Material Culture

  by Elizabeth Stice

  "Where there is passion, people will pursue the past. A sneakerhead can tell you about the innovations in Air Jordans over the years and oftentimes quite a bit about the economic and cultural context of each shoe. Art and material culture can lead people to their own study of the past."

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  11/18/2020
  

  The Thanksgiving Myth Gets a Deeper Look This Year

  “There was an event that happened in 1621,” Wampanoag historian Linda Coombs said. “But the whole story about what occurred on that first Thanksgiving was a myth created to make white people feel comfortable.” Native activists hope to disrupt the stories of Thanksgiving by questioning public history and by recovering indigenous food practices.

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• SOURCE: BBC
  9/3/2020
  

  In Memory of David Graeber, Listen to A BBC Interview on the History of Debt

  Anthropologist David Graeber, whose works included the influential book Debt: The First 5,000 Years has recently passed away. This 1996 BBC interview explores the terrain of that book and the significance of debt as a political force. 

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• 8/2/2020
  

  What's in an Un-Naming? Berkeley's Kroeber Hall

  by Tony Platt

  Alfred Kroeber built the University of California's anthropology department into a world leader literally with the bones of the Native peoples of California. It's time to honor them. 

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• SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle
  9/8/19
  

  Newfound Artifacts alter timeline for Native Americans in California

  The presence of newfound artifacts is evidence, archaeologists say, that native people in Northern California carried on their traditions and maintained tribal ties much longer than many historians thought.

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• 8/18/19
  

  Walkability Is at the Heart of Human Societies

  by Antonia Malchik

  We’ve forgotten about shared space, about public roads, and the fact that tens of thousands of years of human history demonstrates a profound need for the daily, in-person interactions walkability provides.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  11-22-18
  

  Sentinelese Tribe That Killed American Has a History of Guarding Its Isolation

  T.N. Pandit, an Indian anthropologist who visited North Sentinel several times between 1967 and 1991, said their hostility is simple: they want to be left alone.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  3-15-16
  

  If we’re not careful, epigenetics may bring back eugenic thinking

  by Maurizio Meloni

  Today, we generally are educated about the dangers of eugenics. But it is important to keep talking about these issues, before minority groups such as racists try to hijack epigenetics to further their cause.

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• SOURCE: New Historian
  2-11-16
  

  Humans Hard-Wired to Teach, Anthropologist Says

  An anthropologist from Washington State University says that, based on his research into modern hunter-gatherer societies, the desire to teach is hard-wired into humanity’s genetic code.

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• SOURCE: Special to HNN
  5-15-15 (accessed)
  

  Students at Sacramento State protest the plan to replace a history requirement with an anthropology course

  by Vanessa Madrigal

  An analysis of the syllabus of ANTH 101 clearly reveals that the course does not comply with the state mandated guidelines for administering a comprehensive knowledge of American history.”

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• SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee
  5-2-15
  

  Historian chastises Sacramento State for substituting anthropology for American history

  by Joseph A. Palermo

  Joseph Palermo says "it will leave our freshmen and sophomores little understanding of how American institutions have changed through time."

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• SOURCE: New Scientist
  1-3-14
  

  Reconstruction gives Stonehenge man a face

  Forensic analysis of a prehistoric skull gives the UK's most iconic monument a human face.

• SOURCE: AP
  2-5-13
  

  British Museum puts art from the Ice Age on show

  The art world loves hype. Works are touted as the biggest, the rarest, the most expensive.Even in an age of superlatives, the British Museum has something special - the oldest known figurative art in the world.The artworks on display in the new exhibition "Ice Age Art" are so old that many are carved from the tusks of woolly mammoths.But it's not just their age that may surprise visitors. It's their artistry.These are artworks, not just prehistoric artifacts. Some of the sophisticated carvings, sculptures and drawings of people and animals look like something Pablo Picasso or Henry Moore might have created...