#anthropology

#anthropology

(Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times)

Faith Couts always dreamed of pursuing a college degree but "the timing was never right."Couts, 50, had her first child during her senior year in high school and enrolled in community college in Las Vegas.But being a single parent was "overwhelming" and college faded out of the picture as Couts worked to support her growing family, which includes her son, Hunter Wetzel, 22.

Sarna Lapine is operating on little sleep as she sits down for iced coffee and an interview on a recent Saturday morning in Shirlington.The film and theaterdirector has been awake since dawn packing up her nearby temporary housing, but her enthusiasm for unpacking the musicals of Stephen Sondheim is as tireless as ever.

By David Landis, The Gay Gourmet-
It's a nonstop 4 and 1/2 hour flight, but Mexico City is a world away from San Francisco.At more than 7,300 feet, the high-altitude metropolis of 22 million seems like it would be a teaming surge of humanity.But, surprise: it's not.This sophisticated city charms with neighborhoods of green gardens and purple jacaranda trees lining the streets, alongside cafés on every corner.

Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Winshen Liu
樹葬 (shù zàng) You always flossed and wore collared shirts.Did you know the ash would be white?I expected the gray of attic labels and alley cats,
that the urn would open and pour out
the earth like shavings -
but it was lustrous.

In order to keep the anthropology library open, we, UC Berkeley students and community members, have begun an open-ended occupation of the library.Chancellor Carol Christ is going against the support of students, faculty, and our surrounding communities in order to close the anthropology, math, and physics libraries.

Chimpanzee teens may not be so different from the ones living in our homes, a new study says.Except that your teen might be more impulsive.Researchers worked with 40 chimpanzees born in the wild while they were at a sanctuary in the Republic of Congo, playing games that tested the adolescent animals' orientation toward risk-taking and impulsivity, according to the study published January 23 in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General by the American Psychological Association.

In 1434, the high-tech medium of oil paint allowed the Flemish master Jan van Eyck to infuse his sumptuous double portrait of the Arnolfinis with astonishing depth.He couldn't resist showing off a little more: A convex mirror on the back wall contains a tiny self-portrait of the painter at work.Six centuries later, when the multimedia artist and writer Seth Price includes an illusionistic mirrored sphere in the upper left of Thought Comes from the Body II, a big, crackled black and Day-Glo painting on panel, it still signals virtuosity.

In a remote part of the Amazon, anthropologists and neuroscientists are learning about life and health without an "embarrassment of riches."Beside the schoolhouse turned medical station in the northern Bolivian village of Las Maras, everyone is waiting for breakfast.Today's meal is rice and eggs, generously salted and adorned with globs of mayo: hearty fuel for a workday of foraging and hunting animals.

Thousands of bone fragments, which may include the remains of victims of Nazi crimes, were buried Thursday after they were found on a Berlin university campus where an institute for anthropology and eugenics was once located.Some 16,000 fragments were found on the campus of the Free University in excavations that started in 2015 after human and animal bones were discovered during restoration work.

The University of Cambridge will return looted Benin bronzes to Nigeria.The 116 artefacts, which are mainly made of brass but also include some ivory and wooden objects, were taken by British armed forces during the sacking of Benin City in 1897.During the attack, the British burned the city's palace and exiled Benin's Oba, or king, with thousands of brasses and other works  collectively known as the Benin bronzes'  taken and later sold off in London to recoup the costs of the military mission.

GROSSE POINTE FARMS, Mich.The first funerals were held Saturday for students who were killed in this week's mass shooting at Michigan State University.Mourners in the Detroit suburb of Grosse Pointe Farms filed into St.Paul on the Lake Catholic Church to remember sophomore Brian Fraser, who was one of three students killed in Monday's attack.

Earlier this month, a group of Brooklyn College students helped guide me on a tour of the Flatbush African Burial Ground, a sacred site that is the resting place of enslaved Africans who were brought to Brooklyn and died there from the late 1600s until the abolition of slavery in New York in 1827.The students are participating in a paid internship program with the Flatbush African Burial Ground Coalition (FABGC), a Black-led, multiracial organization that is fighting to preserve the site and teach its history.

A travel operator offering young people the life-changing chance to volunteer in developing countries has relaunched after it went into liquidation last year.Raleigh International, which previously traded as Raleigh International Trust, was badly hit by the impact on global travel during the Covid-19 pandemic and went into voluntary liquidation in May.

In Maya culture, an aluxe is believed to be a mischievous elflike being that lives in the woods, a creature of folklore similar to leprechauns, unicorns, mermaids and the Loch Ness Monster.So it was a surprise on Saturday when President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador of Mexico shared a picture on Twitter of what he claimed was an aluxe.

#SaveTheDate - An ongoing event till 23.12.2022!PHANTAZONiA curated 30+ Berlin creatives to transform Holzmarkt's Säälchen venue into an alien universe with 11 surreal, intergalactic worlds.PARALLEL PORTAL is an 11-day immersive art exhibition and performance experience filled with interactive installations, captivating set designs, 3D soundscapes, and a space bar with non- and alcoholic drinks.

A woman who survived a rare, deadly liver cancer shortly after birth has graduated twenty years later, as her parents hailed the amazing NHS workers who treated her.Scarlett Whitford Webb, 21, was diagnosed with Stage 3 hepatoblastoma in April 2002 aged 16 months.The tumour was the size of a mango by the time of diagnosis after initially being missed by multiple GPs, according to her parents.

When Vincent Medina and Louis Trevino, the owners of Cafe Ohlone, began imagining what their new restaurant 'oṭṭoy would look like, they knew they wanted the space, located at the Hearst Museum of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley, to reflect Ohlone culture.The restaurant stands on unceded Ohlone territory, home to Indigenous tribes who lived in what's now called the Bay Area, and Cafe Ohlone works to fuse cultural education with food.

Museums are full of artifacts left by "the first and the famous," says curator Ariana Curtis.Museums can better represent diverse stories, she argues, if they also include stories of everyday life.About Ariana Curtis Ariana Curtis serves as the first curator for Latinx Studies at the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C.

Prior to the iOS changes, Quay was spending the majority of its ad dollars on performance marketing tactics and influencer marketing.The shift to a more full funnel approach now is becoming more common, according to performance marketing agency execs.| By Kristina Monllos Joining a building brand marketing trend, Sunglasses brand Quay has retooled its marketing strategy to be more "full funnel" rather than relying on performance marketing tactics.Now, since the brand has "reduced our spend within social advertising since the iOS changes" the company takes a "much more balanced" approach, said Bricker, as it has a mix of performance marketing, search, affiliate marketing and streaming ads as well as partnerships with buzzy young-skewing shows like Love Island.