"The future lecturer will teach in the Master's degree #DocumentaryFilm and #VisualAnthropology" as well as in the Bachelor's degree #PerformingArts in the form of
theoretical and practical courses in cinema, especially documentary film"
7 [!] PhD Positions in Historical and Cultural Studies and Social Sciences
@ The University of Vienna
[...] within the framework of the new interdisciplinary FWF doc.funds program "The Dynamics of Change and the Logics of Transformation: State, Society, and Economy at Critical Junctures", starting on 1 September 2024.
A compelling argument that certain features of our human biology and psychology (in particular: large brain size, cooperative eyes, symbolic language, menopause, intersubjectivity and Machiavellian counterdominance) provide evidence of an egalitarian past during our evolution.
If I were an anthropologist I would study the cultural practices of girls. I am talking kid's culture, not the things adults impose. Some examples from my own childhood:
Divination (M.A.S.H., fortune telling using playing cards, soda cans, apple stems)
Spiritual Practices
(Light As A Feather, Stiff As A Board, Bloody Mary, etc)
Bonding Games (Truth or Dare, Never Have I Ever, etc)
Chants (For clapping games, jump-rope counting, and picking who is 'It').
My discipline, anthropology, is not seen as a “growth" discipline, and departments are being closed down. But the world needs Anthropology and Anthropologists now more than ever!
Here are my 8 reasons for this:
POSSIBILITIES
At a time of polycrisis, when the destructive fallouts of capitalist modernity are ever more apparent, anthropology highlights that there are myriad alternative ways of thinking and living; that there is so much to learn from other peoples in the world. 1/n
EMPOWERMENT
The skills, knowledge, critical thinking, intellectual flexibility and values you gain by studying anthropology empower students to become the kind of change makers the world needs now.
Please, do share, and please do direct anyone you know who is thinking of going to university and might be interested in Anthropology to me! I am happy to answer any questions. #Anthropology@academicchatter
The most significant and valuable through it all has been the values, theory, and methods from my years explicitly learning / training / practicing anthropology. I wish more (any!) of my undergrad and postgrad students could deep dive in anthro at my university, but it doesn’t exist here as a discipline, degree, or department.
“we have taken the decision to phase out Anthropology, Art History, Health & Social Care, Journalism, Music & Audio Technology, and Philosophy/Religious Studies.”
Large Copper Age necropolis unearthed in Northern Italy
Archaeologists in the town of San Giorgio Bigarello, near Mantua, have unearthed a vast necropolis dating back approximately 5,000 years to the Copper Age. This finding has stunned researchers both for the sheer number of tombs uncovered—22 in total—and the wealth of archaeological treasures within them...
Another paper taking issue with the trendy 'Woman the hunter' arguments. #Martin et al say:
'...we strongly disagree with a central premise that appears to motivate this scholarship: that the idea of evolved gendered subsistence activities derives largely from incorrect assumptions extrapolated from patriarchal norms today and/or rationalizations of “implicit male superiority” based solely on anatomical gender differences. Such claims are belied by extensive ethnographic and human behavioral ecology research across multiple extant foraging societies. These studies document the near universality of gendered divisions of labor, with women's large-scale participation in hunting occurring only in specific societies (i.e., the Agta) or contexts (i.e., small-game hunting) (Bird, 1999; Hoffman, Farquharson, & Venkataraman, 2023).'
Nice piece by @parismarx about the importance of physical media. and the right to control, for equitable access. The cloud is by definition somebody else’s property and this has real repercussions beyond mere entertainment. Too many in #heritage#opengov and lots of other sectors think that putting something online alone makes it findable and reusable.
Grants for #anthropology of work, including our new engaged grants program! Students and those in non-tenure track positions especially encouraged to apply.
Not sure I can bring myself to watch this, with major redundancies at my university and others, and whole departments being closed down, because there are not enough students. The whole sector is breaking apart. I hope the series will consider this too.
Yes, your son should go, and even better if he chooses a subject like #Anthropology which is shrinking just as the world needs it more than ever #university#UK#TheCrumble
Ancient city site discovered in China produces fortune-telling relics
Recent excavations at a site in Puyang, located in Central China, have shed light on the mystery surrounding an ancient Chinese city known as “Gan,” which thrived from the Warring States Period to the Han Dynasty. The site initially thought to be an ordinary archaeological site, has turned out to be a significant discovery.
Scandinavia’s early farmers slaughtered the hunter-gatherer population 5,900 years ago
A recent study conducted by Lund University in Sweden challenges previously held beliefs regarding the transition from hunter-gatherer to agricultural societies in Scandinavia...
Yo, so, I just put on this movie and then couldn't figure out what language they're speaking. Well, apparently it's a #conlang called Tola based on #Basque. I think that's pretty cool and makes sense considering the context.
Researchers from the University of Exeter have recently completed a comprehensive study shedding light on the early inhabitants of the Amazon Basin. Their investigation centered on rock shelters in northwest Colombia, which served as homes to some of the earliest migrants to South America approximately 13,000 years ago...