Wednesday, March 6, 2024
junior anthropologist award
Friday, March 1, 2024
Captivating and Curious Careers of Anthropology
Tuesday, February 20, 2024
languages - English word order
Saturday, February 17, 2024
documenting Consumerism in decline
screenshot from https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-life-and-death-of-the-suburban-american-mall |
Thursday, February 8, 2024
Native language and lives then and now
Monday, January 22, 2024
Learning Blackfeet language in public schools
When Lily Gladstone became the first Indigenous person to win a best actress Golden Globe, she said some words in Blackfeet. Her mother was behind efforts to get the language taught in classes. www.npr.org |
Thursday, January 4, 2024
annual Anthropology Day in 2024 is February 15
Anthropology Day 2024 |
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Monday, December 18, 2023
every year, "World Anthropology Day" & precollege visits
When is Anthropology Day? Help us celebrate what anthropology is and what it can achieve by hosting an event in your community, on your campus, or in your workplace. Anthropology […] americananthro.org |
Monday, November 20, 2023
librarian (Austin, TX) tailors the rooms based on observing the students
Wednesday, December 14, 2022
World Council of Anthropological Associations, WCAA - video list
Wednesday, July 6, 2022
Language lore - click languages in SE corner of Africa
Many of the South African Tribes use click sounds in their language, this is a great Zulu click lesson with Sakhile from Safari and Surf - Wilderness Adventu... youtu.be |
Friday, May 20, 2022
collecting ethnographic writing WITH teaching resources
=-= crossposting May 19, 2022.
[seeking suggestions] a list of ethnographic books (monographs, edited volumes, and other non-textbooks) that come with instructor materials that could be used in anthropology classes ...
The instructor materials could take a variety of formats such as listings in the book itself, accompanying instructor manuals, or hyperlinks to publicly available pdfs or websites, etc. Some examples of possible teaching materials include but are not limited to discussion questions, videos, teaching activities, or assignments that accompany the book.
The goal of the project is to identify monographs or edited volumes that are not explicitly textbooks but have accompanying teaching materials that instructors could use to adopt the scholarly work into their classes.
If you have authored a book with such materials or know of such books with accompanying teaching materials, please email Audrey Ricke at: a c r i c k eAT iu.edu with
- the name of the book or series and the name of the author or press
- the link to the website that features the book (optional but very helpful)
- general topics covered in the book (optional but very helpful)
Here is a short list ...[to] share the list on the Teaching Anthropology Interest Group website, which contains links to other teaching materials.... docs.google.com/document/d/...
Respectfully,
Audrey Ricke -- Chair, Teaching Anthropology Interest Group, General Anthropology Division - American Anthro. Assoc.
Monday, March 7, 2022
Film Festival-7, indigenous languages today and tomorrow
=-= crossposting March 7, 2022 film festival organizer's email message
This year, our festival showcased 45 languages through 35 exceptional films that span over 16 regions around the world. Your support contributes to our continued success and the quality of the festival.
If you enjoyed this year's festival and would like to revisit some of the programming, you can explore open access films on our website and watch roundtable sessions on our YouTube channel. You can also stay up-to-date with the festival by subscribing to our mailing list for occasional newsletters about our films, events, and related programming.
Gracias, tekk, mahalo, merci, and thank you!
—The Mother Tongue Film Festival Team
7th Annual Mother Tongue Film Festival
February 17 – March 4, 2022
Saturday, January 29, 2022
Reconsidering our Neanderthal ancestry 160 to 45,000 years ago
January 28, 2022 - Humans, Being
Thursday, January 13, 2022
Exhibit "Race: are we so different?" now online thanks to Google-Arts/culture initiative
Sunday, October 31, 2021
Halloween goes global - chronicle with insights from anthropology
Friday, September 10, 2021
outreach & archaeology topics
www.northwestanthropology.com/
While many of us do a lot of outreach, I think it is safe to say we need to do more to make this world a better place. I'd be interested in my colleagues thoughts on strategies they have used to reach more.
Thursday, February 25, 2021
Why designating a language "endangered" may lead to problems
Wednesday, January 20, 2021
Human language wonders
- JRR Tolkien's many languages (constructed languages) for Middle Earth (about 14 minutes), https://youtu.be/VFlyQk_uVAI
- European reporter in USA [taken from his early January 2021 Tweet]: From Dalton, Georgia to Washington, D.C., here's my coverage for @AP_GMS of last week's events in French, English, Spanish, Portuguese, German, and Luxembourgish, in that order.https://twitter.com/i/status/1349025211518246912
Wednesday, December 16, 2020
innovative ethnography by manga, Southeast Asia.
Abstract
This is an excerpt from The King of Bangkok. Originally appearing in Chapter 3, the section we present is a flashback that follows the book's protagonist, Nok, on his journey to the island of Koh Pha-Ngan in the Gulf of Thailand. Nok has secured work on a construction site there during the height of the country's economic boom. The section demonstrates how opportunity and precarity, excitement and devastation are fundamental forces animating and shaping the experiences of migrant workers like Nok.
Subject: Rels-TLC Digest, Vol 138, Issue 33
Subject: [tlc] Preview and Interview on the forthcoming graphic novel in English, The King of Bangkok
graphic novel in the UTP EthnoGRAPHIC Series, The King of Bangkok, and an
interview with Claudio Sopranzetti, Sara Fabbri and Chiara Natalucci on the
possibilities of graphic ethnography.
For those interested:
https://ojs.victoria.ac.nz/ce/
Saturday, December 5, 2020
Curated online listening/watching, bi-weekly
- Caste, Speaking of Race
- Moments of Resilience Amid a Pandemic, Sapiens
- Episode 117 - Fish People, The Dirt
- 85: How Food "Authenticity" Commodifies Identities With Jenny Dorsey, AnthroDish
- The Familiar Strange
- Ep# 68"Landing on the Earth": Ashley Carruthers on Organic Farming and Cycling in Vietnam, The Familiar Strange
- More than a Game: Sports, Race, and Masculinity in Diaspora w/ Vyjayanthi Vadrevu and Stanley Thangaraj, This Anthro Life
- Meet Islam's Da Vinci: Al-Biruni, father of geodesy, anthropology, and master of pharmacy, ZMEScience
- Seven Essential Listens From the Indigenous Podcasting Boom, Vanity Fair
- Why We Can't Stop Talking about 'Hipster' Pastors, Christianity Today
- Color Struck!, Zora's Daughter
- The Black Liberal Agenda, Zora's Daughter
- In Search of Light in Dark Times, The SCAS Talks Podcast
- Moments of Resilience Amid a Pandemic, Sapiens Podcast
- Full Moon over Chiapas, RadioAmbulante
- Allusionist 121. No Title
- The Invention of Race, NPR
- Episode 17 - COVID-19 and Fisheries Research, Social FISHtancing
- A breakdown of the hit crime television show Bones - what's real and what's fiction!, That Anthro Podcast
- Channel Islands Archaeology with Dr. Torben Rick, That Anthro Podcast
Sunday, July 19, 2020
Dogs sniffing our (human) bones from centuries ago
As a result, dogs have demonstrated uncanny olfactory abilities. They have sniffed out melanoma skin cancer in humans and detected pregnancy in cows just by picking up scents in their bodily fluids.
So, what exactly are canines detecting at archaeological digs? "Our dogs are not actually searching for bones," Glavaš emphasizes. "They are searching for the molecules of human decomposition."
Sunday, June 14, 2020
excerpt, Indigenous + Scholarly lens on local life
Thursday, June 4, 2020
Britain's "Pompeii" time capsule, the Bronze Age site at Must Farm
Awarded the 2020 Antiquities prize for newly published and open access article, "The Must Farm pile-dwelling settlement."
The article provides a site overview and the current interpretations of the archaeology alongside discussing the material found during the 2015-16 excavations.
See https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2019.38
or look at Facebook for updates to the project, https://www.facebook.com/MustFarmArchaeology/
Thursday, May 14, 2020
reading - archaeology pages at Smithsonian Magazine
In Groundbreaking Find, Three Kinds of Early Humans Unearthed Living Together in South Africa
A Mysterious 25,000-Year-Old Structure Built of the Bones of 60 Mammoths
Divers Recover More Than 350 Artifacts From the HMS 'Erebus' Shipwreck
Angkor Wat May Owe Its Existence to an Engineering Catastrophe
The Best Board Games of the Ancient World
To Craft Cutting Tools, Neanderthals Dove for Clam Shells on the Ocean Floor
Twelve Fascinating Finds Revealed in 2019
Archaeologists Are Unearthing the Stories of the Past Faster Than Ever Before
Oldest Known Seawall Discovered Along Submerged Mediterranean Villages
Monday, April 27, 2020
online Anthropology encyclopedia
Tuesday, March 17, 2020
Hey, be careful where you point thing [camera lens]
Sunday, February 16, 2020
Native American; paying attention to something besides capitalism
Wednesday, November 13, 2019
archaeology all around you
Thursday, October 31, 2019
forensic anthro - 1 of 6 programs in USA
Thursday, September 19, 2019
Such pyramids of solid waste - or Ziggurat?
Sunday, June 30, 2019
online textbook, Biological Anthropology (lab)
Thursday, June 13, 2019
overview - Britain's Bronze-Age "Pompeii" excavated, first synthesis of the pieces
Thursday, April 18, 2019
early Japan ethnography 1950s-60s (taidan), Plath - Vogel
Tuesday, April 9, 2019
new book, "An Anthropology of Anthropology"
...to download a free (open access) copy of An Anthropology of Anthropology as well as see what 35 prominent anthropologists from Australia, Canada, France, Norway, United Kingdom and United States say about it (including Philippe Bourgois, Paul Farmer, Didier Fassin, George Marcus, and Laura Nader). https://books.publicanthropology.org/an-anthropology-of-anthropology.html This link can be used by anyone, anytime, anywhere to freely download the book. Please forward this link to interested colleagues and students. If you lose the link, you can readily obtain it from the new, updated publicanthropology website at www.publicanthropology.org. |
Public Anthropology: An Open Access Series
c/o 45-045 Kamehameha Hwy., Kaneohe, HI 96744
Wednesday, February 6, 2019
linguistic anthropology> Project online to record all the many languages rooted to a place
The wiki-tongues project, https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/wikitongues-documenting-languages
=-= See also, 2007, K. David Harrison, When Languages Die
<>Similarly eye-opening is the story of his LivingTongues.org research center, (Iron Bound Films) The Linguists, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Linguists
<>Then also, see PBS.org, Language Matters (2015), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_Matters_with_Bob_Holman
Saturday, February 2, 2019
museum care - how to clean a totem pole
Thursday, January 3, 2019
ancient human DNA as window on distribution and timeline of related peoples
Thursday, August 16, 2018
linguists? English spelling quirks... what if
Aaron Alon made a video that shows what English would sound like if each vowel had one, and only one, pronunciation. The result sounds like an American pretending to have a weird pan-European accent. https://youtu.be/A8zWWp0akUU
youtu.be Learn more about Aaron Alon's music, writing, and films at aaronalon.com. |
Tuesday, July 17, 2018
Looking for Iron Age locations
The dry summer days show off structures ordinarily not visible at ground level, or even like this from the air when all is well watered at other seasons and even during the summer of a typical rainfall year. Here are a few structures in the vicinity of Eire's giant New Grange stone building of millennia ago, https://www.flickr.com/photos/mythicalireland/41635425520/in/explore-2018-07-16/
No doubt these will contribute to the mapped locations and finds across the hilltops through the British Isles around the time that implements and weapons of iron overtook the weaker points of bronze (admixing copper with tin) and before that the artifacts of copper alone.
I was at the centre of a major archaeological discovery in the Boyne Valley last week. Using a drone, I found a massive crop mark which is believed to be the footprint of a huge late Neolithic henge or enclosure. I was flying with Ken Williams at the time. The markings are only visible because of the prolonged drought in the area. | |