Alex Afouxenidis · @afouxenidis
1034 followers · 57 posts · Server mastodon.world
Less is more ⬇️
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‘Deletions’ from the human #genome may be what made us #human
The loss of about 10,000 bits of DNA over the course of our evolutionary history helped differentiate us from other mammals, a team of Yale researchers found.
https://news.yale.edu/2023/04/27/deletions-human-genome-may-be-what-made-us-human
CAWeeber · @christineweeber
4 followers · 25 posts · Server mastodon.world
Check out Vincen Gregory Yu's powerful new poem at SAPIENS "Apparition in Sugarland"--a new addition to the Indigenizing What It Means to be Human collection. https://www.sapiens.org/culture/apparition-in-sugarland/
#poetry #poetrycommunity #anthro
#anthropology #philippines
#queer
#Ossorio
#poetry #poetrycommunity #anthro #Anthropology #philippines #queer #ossorio
CAWeeber · @christineweeber
4 followers · 22 posts · Server mastodon.world
Check out Hanna Odoom's new poem "A Birth and a Death—a Haunting of Igbo Landing." Find it here as part of the Indigenizing What It Means to be Human collection: https://www.sapiens.org/culture/a-birth-and-a-death-a-haunting-of-igbo-landing/
#poetry #poetrycommunity #anthro #anthropology #Africa #slavery #resistance
#poetry #poetrycommunity #anthro #Anthropology #africa #slavery #resistance
Lena Kaufmann · @lenakaufmann
30 followers · 2 posts · Server mastodon.world
Next week @modo_2022 and I will bring contemporary #history and #anthropology into a closer methodological dialogue!
Our workshop "Between Archive and Field" @uzh, funded by @@snsf_ch, will be followed by an interdiscplinary special issue. Focusing on materialities, infrastructures and technologies, the contributions will cover various temporal stages and regions across Africa, Asia and Europe.
#researchmethods #methods #workshop #archives #fieldresearch
#history #Anthropology #researchmethods #methods #workshop #archives #fieldresearch
CAWeeber · @christineweeber
4 followers · 18 posts · Server mastodon.world
In case you missed it, you can read Thomas Weso's creative nonfiction piece, which is part of the Indigenizing What It Means to be Human collection, here: https://www.sapiens.org/culture/a-free-man-the-story-of-a-menominee-elder/
#anthropology #anthro #cnf
CAWeeber · @christineweeber
1 followers · 9 posts · Server mastodon.world
A new poem published today as part of the "Indigenizing What It Means to Be Human" collection. Check it out! #poet #poetry #anthro #anthropology
#poet #poetry #anthro #Anthropology
Petr Nuska · @petrnuska
118 followers · 410 posts · Server mastodon.world
Associate Professor of Design Anthropology
@ Greenwich University
The University of Greenwich is looking for an experienced academic or practitioner to lead its new Design Anthropology Academic Portfolio.
Deadline: 05/04/2023
https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/CYC296/associate-professor-of-design-anthropology
#AcademicJob #Anthropology #anthrodon #designanthropology #design
Petr Nuska · @petrnuska
118 followers · 410 posts · Server mastodon.world
@ Oxford
Applications are invited for the Evans-Pritchard Lectureship 2023-2024. The Lecturer will deliver a series of four to six lectures in the course of a month, usually during May, based on fieldwork or other indigenous primary materials concerning Africa, the Middle East or the Mediterranean, and offering an empirical analysis of social relations.
Deadline: 26/05/2023
https://www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/article/applications-are-invited-evans-pritchard-lectureship-2023-2024
#AcademicJob #Lectureship #anthrodon #Anthropology
Anne Fausto Sterling · @faustosterling
925 followers · 2527 posts · Server mastodon.world
RT @bjkingape
As I finish up new writing on grief, including animal grief, I find just the perfect paper to discuss in my conclusions! By @AshleeCunsolo @NevilleREllis on ecological grief. #grief #ecologicalgrief #climate #environment #anthropology
#grief #ecologicalgrief #climate #environment #Anthropology
CAWeeber · @christineweeber
1 followers · 9 posts · Server mastodon.world
Check out this recent poem from Kefen I. Budji—one of 19 we're publishing as part of the "Indigenizing What It Means to be Human" collection at SAPIENS. #poet #poetry #poetrycommunity #poem #Anthropology #anthro
To read the entire poem, see: https://www.sapiens.org/culture/the-path/
#poet #poetry #poetrycommunity #poem #Anthropology #anthro
Alex Afouxenidis · @afouxenidis
958 followers · 49 posts · Server mastodon.worldThe replacement of the concept of "race" with that of "ethnicity", has created tremendous possibilities for reactionary politics and the #farright in the #European political landscape
#politics #sociology #Anthropology #history #racism #fascism
#farright #European #politics #sociology #Anthropology #history #racism #fascism
Petr Nuska · @petrnuska
96 followers · 362 posts · Server mastodon.worldAny Prague-based (or Czech-based) #anthrodons ?
The Institute of Ethnology, Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague ( in collaboration with the Aarhus University) organises a public talk by anthropologist Alex Blanchette on “Irremediable Ecologies: Decomposing with America’s oldest industrial animals.”
#animalrights #ecology #sustainability #Anthropology #SocialAnthropology
#anthrodons #animalrights #ecology #sustainability #Anthropology #socialanthropology
Petr Nuska · @petrnuska
96 followers · 361 posts · Server mastodon.worldAnthropologie Sociale 30(4)2022: Urgency and Imminence: the Politics of the Very Near Future
https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/saas/30/4/saas.30.issue-4.xml
#newissue #openaccess #COVID19 #Anthropology #socialanthropology #anthrodon
Bob the Traveler · @bobthetraveler
414 followers · 12690 posts · Server mastodon.world
Marius Barbeau, born OTD in 1883, is now considered a founder of Canadian #anthropology https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/canada/canada-vs-us/?s=mb #travel #Canada
MJ Muse · @MJmusicinears
348 followers · 3604 posts · Server mastodon.worldhttps://www.sciencenews.org/article/ancient-dna-ice-age-hunter-gatherers-europe Ancient DNA unveils disparate fates of Ice Age hunter-gatherers in Europe
A new study is the largest to date of ancient Europeans’ DNA
Anne Fausto Sterling · @faustosterling
922 followers · 2403 posts · Server mastodon.worldRT @ktcapuchin
ICYMI - please sign petition if you agree that one of only three #anthropology libraries in the US should not be shuttered permanently. @UCBerkeley @Cal https://twitter.com/ktcapuchin/status/1629954809217404930
Petr Nuska · @petrnuska
92 followers · 354 posts · Server mastodon.worldAnthropolitan - Issue No. 18
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#Race, #Racism, and #Decolonisation
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/news-and-events/anthropolitan
#newissue #race #racism #decolonisation #openaccess #Anthropology #anthrodon
Penny Richards · @PennamitePLR
79 followers · 67 posts · Server mastodon.world
started a #wikipedia article on @CatholicUniv anthropologist Regina Flannery Herzfeld (1904-2004): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regina_Flannery_Herzfeld #Smithsonian #Anthropology #washingtondc #folklore
#wikipedia #smithsonian #Anthropology #washingtondc #folklore
Petr Nuska · @petrnuska
92 followers · 353 posts · Server mastodon.worldThe #RAI is looking for proposals for a special issue to be published in 2025!
Proposals are due by 24 March 2023.
https://therai.org.uk/publications/jrai-special-issue/jrai-special-issue
Kathrin Eitel · @kathrineitel
362 followers · 11 posts · Server mastodon.world
It's out! What a feeling! The intro is Open Access! More info on content soon.
#recycling #waste #city #phnompenh #Cambodia #infrastructure #Anthropology
#recycling #waste #city #phnompenh #cambodia #infrastructure #Anthropology