World Council of Anthropological Associations, WCAA - video list

Thanks (?) to Covid more and more conversations among researchers take place online, thus reducing the carbon footprint and making it practical for a much, much wider audience to participate. As well, when conversations are recorded for public playback, then future audiences can also search and discover the ideas found there.

The WCAA, together with the WAU (World Anthropologies Union), has hosted many of these scholarly online get-togethers, including October 2022 (Human Rights 1) and December 2022 (Human Rights 2, livestream on Dec. 14; upload to follow). The events are meant to bring anthropologists to engage is current issues, emerging problems, and perennial questions about understanding and communicating insights of human life on planet Earth.

WAU/WCAA website: www.waunet.org/wcaa/videos

Language lore - click languages in SE corner of Africa

 - quoting boingboing.net for July 6, 2022 (about 3.5 minutes)

Sakhile Dube of "Safari and Surf" in South Africa's KwaZulu-Natal Province explains the click sounds heard in the Zulu language (aka IsiZulu), a Bantu language spoken by more than ten million people in the region.

https://youtu.be/kBW2eDx3h8w 

How to pronounce Zulu Clicks with Sakhile from Safari and Surf - Wilderness Adventures 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

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.

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

Reconsidering our Neanderthal ancestry 160 to 45,000 years ago

Weekly radio show, On The Media (OTM), https://www.npr.org/podcasts/452538775/on-the-media

January 28, 2022 - Humans, Being

When you hear the word "Neanderthal," you probably picture a mindless, clumsy brute. It's often used as an insult — even by our president, who last year called anti-maskers "Neanderthals." But what if we have more in common with our ancestral cousins than we think? On this week's On the Media, hear how these early humans have been unfairly maligned in science and in popular culture.

1. John Hawks [@johnhawks], professor of anthropology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, on our biological family tree—and the complicated branch that is Neanderthals. Listen.

2. Rebecca Wragg Sykes [@LeMoustier], archeologist and author of Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art, on and what we know about how they lived. Listen.

3. Clive Finlayson [@CliveFinlayson], Director, Chief Scientist, and Curator of the Gibraltar National Museum, on how studying what's inside Gorham and Vanguard caves can help reconstruct Neanderthal life beyond them. Listen.

4. Angela Saini, science journalist, on how Neanderthals have been co-opted to push mythologies about the genetic basis of race.

Exhibit "Race: are we so different?" now online thanks to Google-Arts/culture initiative

See https://artsandculture.google.com/story/race-are-we-so-different/ugKy-3EjEtQeIg

Little by little the google form of spreading access to collections and displays grows each year.