 | 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 |
 | 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 |
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[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
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.
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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.
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.
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/
| ...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. |
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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. | |
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Low tide lines in the long-term water cycle, as well as droughts bring opportunities for Space Archaeologists and aerial spotting of human activity in places normally obscured by water tideline or surface vegetation. Here are examples of crop marks in the fields around Wales:
For decades, a "man the hunter" theory of early humans prevailed, with the image of societies and interactions revolving around bagging big game. But new research suggests that women likely brought home a lot more food. When grandmothers were added to the mix, babies ate better and may have developed better social skills to manage their multiple caregivers.
"Human children are adapted for cooperation … in ways that apes aren't," says a psychologist.
 | boingboing.net Tibetan man gets five years in prison for speaking about his native language | |
Kazakhstan's commitment to change, following the 1928 example of Turkey's own shift from Arabic script to Latin-based alphabet.
www.bbc.com/capital/story/20180424-the-cost-of-changing-an-entire-countrys-alphabet
 | www.bbc.com The Central Asian nation of Kazakhstan is changing its alphabet from Cyrillic script to the Latin-based style favoured by the West. What are the economics of such a change? | |
Early February release of "How to Think like an Anthropologists" by Matthew Engelke.
Radio segment discussion by Barbara J. King, http://wuwm.com/post/how-think-anthropologist-and-why-you-should-want
 | wuwm.com Civilization originated in the Fertile Crescent region, including parts of modern-day Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel and Egypt. That's the | |
and screenshot attached from eBook page with cover and blurb.
Thanks to author Engelke for bringing anthro to wider and wider audiences!
Two infant remains from the last Ice Age excavated in Alaska; DNA patterns suggest many Asia linkages and various branches sometime after settling in N. America, https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/01/03/575326694/ancient-human-remains-document-migration-from-asia-to-america
Japan Times (7 Sept 2017) gives a good overview of "Whale of a Tale," the newly released story with builds in local villagers point of view for the annual killing in the Taiji cove that was forcefully presented by the lenses of "The Cove." Excerpt of online news article follows, with URL to full article and movie URL.
