CULTURING MONEY: Double Movements in the Marshall Islands by Ola Gunhildrud Berta has now been published! Find out more here: bit.ly/4gRbeVs #EconomicAnthropology #Anthropology #CulturalStudies #DevelopmentStudies
Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology
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We are an #openaccess #encyclopedia of social and cultural #anthropology. Our entries are written by experts and peer reviewed. We aim to make anthropology accessible for everyone. Find us at www.anthroencyclopedia.com
🎉 Congratulations to Emeritus Professor of Anthropology Emma Tarlo, who has been elected to the @britishacademy.bsky.social's Fellowship 🎉 www.gold.ac.uk/news/2026/em...
Emma Tarlo newly elected as Fellow of the British Academy
Emeritus Professor of Anthropology Emma Tarlo has been elected to the British Academy's Fellowship.
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Ancient Egyptians deified the sacred baboon as a form of Thoth, god of the moon. #Dartmouth anthropology professor Nathaniel Dominy and Catherine Hobaiter of @uniofstandrews.bsky.social used spectroscopy to show its grizzled fur is indistinguishable from moonlight.
Kevin Ashton 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🇬🇱🇩🇰🇵🇸@kevinashton.bsky.social · 3w agoWhy baboons were a manifestation of the ancient Egyptian deity of wisdom, writing, magic, and the moon. This is an extraordinary work of synthesis, humanism, and science writing. Short, free, non-technical, fascinating, and a great weekend quick read.
Care and Agency: The Andean Community through the Eyes of Children — In this piece from the Population Studies and Training Center at Brown, Cultural Anthropologist and Anthropology Dept. Chair @jessacabeza.bsky.social examines the various ways that children receive, are denied, and provide care.
Care and Agency: The Andean Community through the Eyes of Children
Cultural Anthropologist Jessaca Leinaweaver examines the various ways that children receive, are denied, and provide care.
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Fantastic review of ANGALKUT/SHAMANS IN YUP'IK ORAL TRADITION in the #Smithsonian #Arctic Studies Newsletter! #Indigenous #Native #Alaska #community #anthropology
"Mapping out regional idioms, anthropologists found #depression -like experiences expressed in a wide range of descriptions of nervous conditions such as ‘nervos’ in South America, ‘nerve exhaustion’ in East Asia, as well as other psychophysiological idioms like ‘heart distress’ in the Middle East"
Depression
Depression, which psychiatrists regard as a most common mental illness, has been examined by anthropologists especially closely since the 1980s. While most medical experts consider depression as a uni...
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New research argues kids don’t just absorb culture, they build it. From Nicaraguan Sign Language to hunter-gatherer foraging knowledge, peer groups run parallel cultural systems adults rarely see. #Anthropology #CulturalEvolution #ChildDevelopment www.anthropology.net/p/children-a...
Children Are Not Just Learning Culture. They’re Making It.
A new synthesis in Behavioral and Brain Sciences argues that peer groups of children produce, transmit, and sometimes preserve knowledge that adults never touch.
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I was supposed to do a bunch of work today but I ended up getting sidetracked reading Harrison White’s personal and heavily-annotated copies of Levi-Strauss’s “Structural Anthropology” and Morishima’s “Marx’s Economics” I have the best job fyi
It's been a busy academic year here at the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography! Read about some of our highlights including doctoral research plus why almost everyone is #righthanded and #DisobedientBuildings in our annual newsletter canva.link/owpsjwu90n1v... #Anthropology
🔬 Quand la mode est-elle apparue ? Des archéologues identifient les plus anciennes traces de mode dans l'histoire de l'humanité - article de Francesco d'Errico et Solange Rigaud, chercheurs à @pacea.bsky.social paru dans le journal Evolutionary Anthropology :
Quand la mode est-elle apparue ? Des archéologues identifient les plus anciennes traces de mode dans l'histoire de l'humanité
Un nouvel article de Francesco d'Errico et Solange Rigaud, chercheurs à PACEA, sur les origines de la mode paru dans le journal
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"Subjects with biggest staff cuts are social work (-9%), English & classics (-8%), anthropology (-7%) & linguistics (-6%)" Severe financial crisis facing UK universities is getting worse & will become defining issue over next year Even Govt will notice www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Humanities among degrees being ‘extinguished’ by hard-up universities
Exclusive: Experts fear rise in education ‘cold spots’ and social immobility as 4,000 academic posts lost in one year
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I've just discovered and purchased Lisa Stevenson's Life Beside Itself: Imagining Care in the Canadian Arctic. This is not a new book, but new to me! #ethnography #anthropology #Inuit #Arctic #books #deathstudies #death
New Q&A: Is anthropology hopelessly politicized, more than any other humanistic field? That's the charge that's been flying around this summer, so I wanted to hear from Carolyn Rouse, the president of the American Anthropological Association. She had a lot to say. www.chronicle.com/article/is-a...
Is Anthropology Hopelessly Politicized?
We asked Carolyn M. Rouse, head of the American Anthropological Association. She had a lot to say.
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The SLA Blog is excited to announce our return from hiatus with a piece titled "There are Ghosts in this Machine: AI Anonymization and the Identification of Self" by María José Peláez, Kai Blevins, and Joel Kuipers linguisticanthropology.org/sla-blog/the...
There are Ghosts in this Machine: AI Anonymization and the Identification of Self - Society for Linguistic Anthropology
There are Ghosts in this Machine: AI Anonymization and the Identification of Self What happens when the tools designed to protect research participants end up either 1) obscuring their facial expressi...
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L-R: Sam Batwi (Northern/Central Yana Indian), Dr. A.L. Kroeber, Anthropologist, & #Ishi (Yahi or Southern Yana Indian) 1911. Photo: Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology (Berkeley) Kroeber is the father of Ursula Le Guin. Her mother, anthropologist Theodora Kroeber, authored "Ishi in Two Worlds"
History of Anthropology Panels at ESHS/HSS 2026 The Joint Meeting of the European Society for the History of Science/ History of Science Society will be held in-person in Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom from July 13-16, 2026. The HAR News editors are pleased to share a selection of panels that…
History of Anthropology Panels at ESHS/HSS 2026
The Joint Meeting of the European Society for the History of Science/ History of Science Society will be held in-person in Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom from July 13-16, 2026. The HAR News editors are pleased to share a selection of panels that may be of interest to our readers. Other panels, session locations, abstracts, and additional details can be found in the…
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🎙️ A new episode of Anthropod is out! In the second installment of our miniseries on love and anthropology, Yichi Zhang and Dr. Luisa Schneider explore how love is inseparable from the inequalities and insecurities that shape intimate life. www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...
On this day in 1858, Franz Uri Boas was born to become the Father of American Anthropology, which is a pretty good trick given he earned his PhD in physics. Nonetheless, Boas was a giant, debunking racially biased belief systems while developing cultural relativism. #OTD
New book out: Offers that can't be refused - An Anthropology of Extortion, about threat and protection, violence and care, and mafia states the world over. Edited by Lucia Michelutti and the EXTORT research group, with 16 chapters and all full open access here: uclpress.co.uk/book/offers-...
Offers That Cannot Be Refused
Offers That Cannot Be Refused explores the social logic and lived realities of extortion through collaborative, comparative ethnography across multiple countries. This incisive volume reveals how unre...
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AI may be making our work better, but it’s making our thinking worse, new evidence shows. A few recent studies point the way toward preserving what makes us human amid the rise of artificial intelligence.
Column | How to stop ChatGPT from ruining how you think
Studies show that using AI can lead people to “cognitive surrender.” But with the right approach, it can also elevate your thinking.
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*not-so-fun fact There is still no authoritative translation of the Ethiopian bible, more than 500 years after the outside world learned about it So it will be long before we get any translations of the hundreds of thousands of African manuscripts discovered in the last 30 yrs
There was a great effort in the 60s and 70s to translate a handful of the popular manuscripts (mostly chronicles, for obvious reasons), but the bulk of the manuscripts are locked away in metal cases where they are quickly disintegrating bsky.app/profile/rhap...
Isaac Samuel@rhaplord.bsky.social · 2mo agoThere aren't a lot of West African manuscripts older than 400 years because they quickly disintegrate once they're taken out of storage This 350-year-old manuscript was nearly intact when it was collected in the 1960s, but only fragments of it remain today
In this essay, I highlight at least 40 original works of Ge'ez literature that may be of interest to philologists and translators But that barely scratches the surface; it's just a quick introduction www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/the-intell...
The intellectual history of Ethiopia and Eritrea: Ge'ez manuscripts and scholars (ca. 200-1900CE)
The unique manuscript collections of Ethiopia and Eritrea written in the Ge'ez script are arguably the best-known works of literature produced in pre-colonial Africa.
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FIXING MOTORCYCLES IN POST-REPAIR SOCIETIES: Technology, Aesthetics and Gender by Gabriel Jderu @gabrieljderu.bsky.social is now available in paperback! Find out more here: bit.ly/4oUf3ex Review from @jtransporthist.bsky.social #MobilityStudies #Sociology #GenderStudies
I continue to hold out hope for a humanities renaissance - I think that AI and also Covid have produced a generation of graduates and workers with a learned inability to think critically. People with qualifications in like, philosophy and anthropology are really the only antidote to that
Lauri Donahue@lauridonahue.bsky.social · last mo.futurism.com/future-socie... lol
The premonitory whirlwinds of the third globalization June 21, 2026 In his work entitled “Anthropologist without pigs” (Academia, 2025, 467 p.), Jean Copans explores the avenues of a third globalization of anthropology. The author also discusses his links with Senegal, a country he knows well…
The premonitory whirlwinds of the third globalization June 21, 2026
In his work entitled “Anthropologist without pigs” (Academia, 2025, 467 p.), Jean Copans explores the avenues of a third globalization of anthropology. The author also discusses his links with Senegal, a country he knows well since he carried out his first field studies there. After the era of great discoveries, the Age of Enlightenment and... The post The premonitory whirlwinds of the third globalization June 21, 2026 appeared first on Mwebantu .
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Comitas Award for Significant Applications of Anthropology: The Society for Applied Anthropology invites nominations and applications for an award honoring Lambros Comitas. All info: appliedanthro.org/awards-prize... #SfAA #SocialScience #Anthropology #AppliedAnthropology #Comitas
