Tag: social anthropology
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South Tyrol’s Segregated School System
Guest Post by Dr. Ann Wand of @coffee_and_cocktails_podcast The border region of South Tyrol, Italy situated between the Austrian and Italian border, is an area of Western Europe that is largely undiscussed in the English-speaking world. Originally a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire before its eventual fall after the First World War, this multilingual region…
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Online, Offline And Us – Privacy In Post-COVID World
We are bored. We are desperate for human contact. We have lives to live, work to do, health concerns.We are living in a pandemic world, hopefully soon to be a post-pandemic one, but the changes are likely here to stay.So the great question right now is – what now?
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Guest Post – Wolf Killer: Who Slew England’s Last Wolf?
Today, we share a post by the talented writer Chris Messenger, content writer, remote working dad, comics enthusiast and the creator of Weird Wednesdays Facebook group (well worth reading, especially if you are interested in behaviour, superstition and a touch of supernatural!).Why this post? Two things stand out in Chris’ debate. Firstly, the social perception…
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Fighting racism with anthropology
Racism is not something that simply affects a select group only and should therefore be ignored – it is everywhere, it is present in how we profile each other, it is and remains a global problem. Historic behaviours, ideologies, even science are co-responsible for its past, for how it evolves and how it continues to…
