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What caused the deadly stampede in India?

Authorities in India have arrested six people following a deadly stampede in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh. 121 women and children were killed at a religious event where nearly 250,000 had gathered to listen to a guru. To understand what caused this human tragedy, we talk to Sanjay Srivastava,…

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Best anthropology books, from Jane Goodall to John Green

The history of humanity, what separates between humans and animals, and everything in between

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Indian election: Has the vote been free and fair?

Has the general election in India been free and fair? This crucial point is debated and discussed across the country and abroad as the results of the vote come in. While Prime Minister Narendra Modi's BJP party will still be the largest in parliament, it has done less well than…

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As war rages in Sudan, community resistance groups sustain life

In this episode of Don’t Call Me Resilient, Nisrin Elamin, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and African Studies at the University of Toronto, paints a grim picture of life in Sudan today. She says the current war, which exploded on April 15, 2023, is devastating both rural and urban communities. Elamin…

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Court Declines to Dismiss Libel Suit by Anthropologist Accused of Mishandling Human Remains from Project MOVE Bombing

The case was brought by Dr. Janet Monge against the University of Pennsylvania.

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Under the Hornbeams by Emma Tarlo review – epiphanies in the park

The anthropology professor’s account of her conversations with two men living in Regent’s Park brings insights to her own life as well as theirs

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Anthropic Projects Exponential Growth, Surpassing 0M Revenue by 2024

Anthropic, an avant-garde company, dazzles with its visionary outlook, projecting an astonishing annualized revenue rate of over 0 million by 2024. A gr...

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‘Malabar holds significance in medieval and modern history’

Kozhikode Malabar has a special significance in history due to its cosmopolitan characteristics, said Engseng Ho, Prof. of Cultural Anthropology at Duke Univ. Trade relations & cultural exchange between Malabar & other regions visible in global literature. Noting nationalism a lie, Ho said people connected due to multiple transactions. 28…

The Hindu

Forensic anthropologists work to identify human skeletal remains and uncover the stories of the unknown dead

A seasoned deer hunter is shocked when his hound dog trots up with a human femur clenched between its teeth. A woman veers off her normal urban walking path and happens upon a human skull. New property owners commission a land survey that reveals a set of human remains just…

The Conversation

Anthropology review – clever AI missing-person mystery

Lauren Gunderson’s smart play finds a software engineer creating a digital version of a sister who has disappeared

The Guardian - UK

Anthropology at Hampstead Theatre review: Twilight Zone-style AI drama is polished, pacey but at times absurd

The story unfolds like a tech-savvy version of The Lovely Bones, where the ghost is in the machine

Evening Standard

Ghassan Hage is one of Australia's most significant intellectuals. He's still on a quest for a multicultural society that hopes and cares

It is 50 years – two generations – since then Immigration Minister Al Grassby launched the idea of a multicultural Australia at a Melbourne conference in 1973. Ghassan Hage, Professor in Anthropology and Social Theory at the University of Melbourne, and currently visiting scholar at the prestigious Max Planck Institute…

The Conversation

Controversial San Jose State prof who posed with Native American skull to resign after settlement reached

SAN JOSE — A controversial anthropology professor at San Jose State, who contended she was a victim of a “woke activist mob” for opposing the repatriation of Native American remains and posing in a photo with an ancient skull, has agreed to leave the university next year.

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‘Mainstream media adapted to either adulation or silence’: Francis Cody on media credibility, self-regulation

Francis Cody is an associate professor in the department of anthropology and the Asian Institute at the University of Toronto. He’s also the director of the university’s Centre for South Asian Studies. His research focuses on politics, language and media in southern India.

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Back in Mexico, 'Earth Monster' sculpture points to ancient beliefs

A massive stone sculpture carved by Olmec artists more than 2,000 years ago that evokes ancient religious beliefs has returned to Mexico after decades in the United States in a homecoming cheered by officials and scholars.

The Independent UK

Native American remains discovered at Dartmouth College spark calls for accountability

Dartmouth College says it has found the partial skeletal remains of 15 Native Americans housed in its anthropology department

The Independent UK

Berkeley professor apologizes for false Indigenous identity

An anthropology professor at the University of California, Berkeley, whose identity as Native American had been questioned for years has apologized for falsely identifying as Indigenous, saying she is “a white person” who lived an identity based on family lore

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Ancient human DNA extracted from 20,000-year-old deer tooth pendant found in Denisova Cave

Scraps of ancient DNA coaxed out of a deer tooth pendant show it likely hung around the neck of a woman or girl around 20,000 years ago.

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The Guardian - UK

Charlotte Aull Davies obituary

Other lives: Social anthropologist who worked at Swansea University for 20 years and founded Anthropology Wales

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Pnina Werbner obituary

Other Lives: Social anthropolgist who, as an immigrant herself, was attuned to themes of citizenship and multiculturalism

Texas Observer

Learning from the Dead

The resident donors at Texas' famed Body Ranch, operated by Texas State University, offer many lessons about life—and untimely death.

Tribune News Service

Beethoven’s hair: How a San Jose State museum docent turned genetic researcher debunked a famous relic

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Tristan Begg was an anthropology student at UC Santa Cruz and a Beethoven fanatic when he volunteered as a docent at San Jose State University’s Beethoven center in the summer of 2009.

The Independent UK

Bones kept by former eugenics institute buried in Berlin

Thousands of bone fragments, which may include the remains of victims of Nazi crimes, have been buried after they were found on a Berlin university campus where an institute for anthropology and eugenics was once located

Tribune News Service

Feds arrest man at Detroit airport after threats targeting Wisconsin university

DETROIT — Federal agents arrested a former University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate student at Detroit Metropolitan Airport who flew to America from Copenhagen on Friday after threatening students, faculty and staff members at his alma mater and vowing to hide the flesh of their children in hamburger meat, according to federal…

Reuters

Ancient bodies found in Mexico City show shared Catholic, pre-Hispanic graves

The remains of 28 human bodies buried at least four hundred years ago in Mexico indicate the comingling of pre-Hispanic and Catholic cultures that Spanish colonizers introduced, local researchers told Reuters.

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