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In 1601, Quivira was the economic center of what is now the southern United States. Now, Quivira is nearly forgotten, its real history shrouded in myth. Tomorrow, April 2, join Don Blakeslee, Ph.D., Anthropology Professor at Wichita State University, for "Lost City, Forgotten Country: Quivira and the Wichita Tribe," to understand what we now know about the place and what happened to it. Free & open to the public: https://bit.ly/3VyPjIc Sponsored by the Center for Ancient Studies at Penn.

NEW COURSE: Led by Katie Barron, 'Stepping out of the Moneybox: What is money and is it a force for good or ill?' will draw on history, anthropology and philosophy to question our assumptions about money. Book now for Friday 31st May to Sunday 2nd June. Details on our website.

This week on History Health & Healing: Dr Abigail Nieves from Utrecht University is starting a new reading group as part of the project “Microbiome research and race in the ‘Local South’”. The first session will take place tomorrow on MS Teams, discussing the chapter "Scientific Racism in Modern South Africa" in the book Physical anthropology and the quest for the missing link by Saul Dubow. To join the reading group, please contact Dr Nieves-Delgado. #historyofrace #microbiomeresearch #historyofscience

February 25 | Sunday | 6:30pm RSVP: http://surl.li/qvekm Archives are considered valuable repositories of historical documents, providing insights into the past and the present. However, it’s crucial to understand that while archives often aim to be accurate and reliable, they provide neither a really complete nor a necessarily objective representation of historical events and contemporary worlds. In this session, Saurabh Dube attempts to reconsider conventional perspectives on the archive, practice, history, and anthropology, emphasising their contradictory and contested nature within modernity.

For #AskAnArchaeologist Day, we sat down with Sarah Miller and Lori Lee to dive into their anthropological and archaeological journeys. These fields blend scientific research, historical analysis, and storytelling to uncover the mysteries of our past and understand what makes us human. Interested in starting your own journey? Learn more about our Anthropology major here: https://bit.ly/46gwwVh

We will be getting into issues of epistemic and design justice, subaltern innovation, and what we can learn from applying mixed methods in a wide variety of sites. Translation: let's ask why certain things are deemed innovative and others not. Who gets to say so - and what are the power dynamics that go into legitimizing certain forms of knowledge or creation over others? What's the economic fallout? And, perhaps most importantly, how can we do it differently? Lots of stories and lessons from partnerships across the years in a variety of nonprofit, health and education settings. Register in advance & see you there!

Check out this talk by Sheena N. McKinlay on epistemic and design justice. I am interested in and intrigued by the examination of “innovation”!

My chapter "Imagining Global Health through Artificial Intelligence" is out - published as part of a wonderful collective effort to explore the relationship between anthropology and global health. This effort cumulated in the Routledge Handbook of Anthropology and Global Health, edited by Tsitsi Masvawure and Ellen Foley, who put in a lot of effort to bring authors from a range of contexts and at different stages of their career into conversation. A big thanks to everyone involved! https://lnkd.in/ey-7fFbH

https://lnkd.in/gcEwf7tC AnthroEdge – Anthropology Optional Mains 2024 Revision and Value-Added Document Introducing AnthroEdge – 2nd Edition, your essential revision and value-added resource for UPSC Mains 2024. It provides complete coverage of the syllabus in concise manner and includes past-year questions. The document also features scholar citations, case studies, and illustrations, thereby helping aspirants boost their optional scores.

TIF Research Lab is where innovation begins. We delve into the world of branding anthropology, a research methodology that explores the cultural context, behaviour and motivations surrounding your brand and its audience. Want to learn more about our Research Lab? https://lnkd.in/e77WAeAn