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Feminist Anthropology Today: Thinking about Gendered Binaries, Violence against Women, and the Praxis of Feminist Anthropology

Anthropology News

This entry marks our departure as Contributing Editors for the Association for Feminist Anthropology’s (AFA) column in Anthropology News ( AN ). We also write to reflect on the works we patiently, lovingly, and laboriously shepherded into publication over the past four years and what they reveal about feminist anthropology.

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Bringing Anthropological Concepts to Life in a Virtual Peer Exchange

Teaching Anthropology

By Shelene Gomes, University of the West Indies, & Lara Watkins, Bridgewater State University Students can read about culture, but hearing peers narrate personal experiences in another country provides invaluable firsthand insights. Analysing these narratives allows for a deeper understanding of cultural differences.

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The Unique Open-Endedness of Human Culture

Anthropology.net

A Revolutionary Theory in Anthropology Human culture is a remarkable, complex phenomenon, often seen as a defining feature that sets humans apart from other species. Unlike animal cultures, which are limited in scope and depth, human culture accumulates, adapts, and continually evolves, empowering our species to dominate the planet.

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Where Cultures Collide

Sapiens

Culture is a force that makes us who we are. Cultural conflicts are at the heart of many crises facing the worldincreasing inequality, persistent bigotry, ecological collapse. Cultural conflicts are at the heart of many crises facing the worldincreasing inequality, persistent bigotry, ecological collapse.

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The Emic Perspective of Generative AI

Teaching Anthropology

Nightingale College, South Dakota, US As I grade my Cultural Anthropoloy classs Emic and Etic Perspectives of Halloween essay, two things strike me: 1. For anyone who has been teaching anthropology over the last two years, the latter will be of no surprise to you. We are the discipline of anthropology. Chloe Beckett, M.A.,

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Bones of Contention: New Evidence of Cannibalism in Magdalenian Culture

Anthropology.net

. “Cannibalism was an integral practice within the cultural systems of these Magdalenian groups,” the authors write. Cut Marks and Cracked Bones: The Case for Cannibalism Maszycka Cave is not new to the anthropological world. New insights of cultural cannibalism amongst Magdalenian groups at Maszycka Cave, Poland.

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Bleeding-Edge Praxis: Leveraging Anthropology and Feminist Science for Emerging Issues

Anthropology News

All subdisciplines of anthropology recognize the importance of contextualizing events, creating a discipline that respects paying attention while withholding judgment and remaining flexible during research. The post Bleeding-Edge Praxis: Leveraging Anthropology and Feminist Science for Emerging Issues appeared first on Anthropology News.