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Karen Kelsky is a cultural anthropologist by training. 0.980

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Academia , Anthropology

Simplified: Karen Kelsky is a cultural anthropologist by training.

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1 week ago
Ben Ryder Howe's father belonged to a wave of American anthropologists who, in the wake of the 1960s, saw themselves as not simply studying their subjects but standing with them against imperialism an... 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Biography , Colonialism , Anthropology , Social Movements

Simplified: Ben Ryder Howe's father, James, was part of a group of American anthropologists after the 1960s who aimed to support their subjects against imperialis...

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2 weeks ago
At age 40, he quit the academy. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Biography , Anthropology

Simplified: Anthropologist Mac Chapin quit academia at age 40.

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2 weeks ago
Chapin, who also started working with the Guna in the late 1960s, edited a compilation of Guna oral literature that is still widely read, especially by the Guna. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Biography , Literature , Anthropology , Guna People

Simplified: Anthropologist Mac Chapin started working with the Guna people in the late 1960s and edited a compilation of their oral literature.

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2 weeks ago
In the founding myth of ethnographic fieldwork, set by Bronislaw Malinowski in 1922 in “Argonauts of the Western Pacific,” the anthropologist arrives on a tropical beach as the boat that brought him s... 1.000

👤 Ben Ryder Howe 📋 News Article 🏷️ History , Literature , Anthropology

Simplified: Bronislaw Malinowski's 1922 book, “Argonauts of the Western Pacific,” sets out a founding myth of ethnographic fieldwork where the anthropologist is l...

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Some anthropologists, criticizing the sort of ethnography my father’s generation did as continuing the discipline’s extractive, colonialist ways, use the label “salvage anthropology.” 1.000

👤 Ben Ryder Howe 📋 News Article 🏷️ Academia , Anthropology

Simplified: Some anthropologists use the label “salvage anthropology” to criticize earlier ethnographic work as being extractive and colonialist.

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2 weeks ago
He was referring to a controversial report on the humanities last spring called “The State of Scholarship,” commissioned by Vanderbilt and Washington universities, which singled out anthropology for “... 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Education , Academia , Anthropology

Simplified: A report titled 'The State of Scholarship,' commissioned by Vanderbilt and Washington universities in the spring of 2026, singled out anthropology for...

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2 weeks ago
Chapin, who also started working with the Guna in the late 1960s, edited a compilation of Guna oral literature that is still widely read, especially by the Guna. 1.000

👤 Ben Ryder Howe 📋 News Article 🏷️ Biography , Indigenous Peoples , Anthropology

Simplified: Anthropologist Mac Chapin began working with the Guna people in the late 1960s and later edited a compilation of Guna oral literature.

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2 weeks ago
At age 40, he quit the academy. 1.000

👤 Ben Ryder Howe 📋 News Article 🏷️ Biography , Anthropology

Simplified: Anthropologist Mac Chapin quit academia at age 40.

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2 weeks ago
He was referring to a controversial report on the humanities last spring called “The State of Scholarship,” commissioned by Vanderbilt and Washington universities, which singled out anthropology for “... 1.000

👤 Ben Ryder Howe 📋 News Article 🏷️ Higher Education , Academia , Anthropology

Simplified: A Spring 2026 report titled "The State of Scholarship," commissioned by Vanderbilt and Washington universities, singled out the field of anthropology...

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2 weeks ago
In the founding myth of ethnographic fieldwork, set by Bronislaw Malinowski in 1922 in “Argonauts of the Western Pacific,” the anthropologist arrives on a tropical beach as the boat that brought him s... 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ History , Academia , Anthropology

Simplified: The book “Argonauts of the Western Pacific,” published by Bronislaw Malinowski in 1922, sets the founding myth of ethnographic fieldwork where an anth...

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2 weeks ago