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Cultural anthropologist Barbara Miller offers updates about people, cultures, rights, and change, around the world. A critical but wishfully hopeful view.

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Feed your brain with some knowledge, entirely for free!

Very very proud of the release of this book created entirely by the ECRs of @Animal_Feeding. Every single chapter is worth a read so dig in :)

Big thanks @UCLpress for the smooth collaboration!

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US: MAGA is MAGA-ing on human rights. This NPR article discusses several changes in the process and product of the US government's annual global human rights review https://t.co/33WXE86bjv

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A look at Gobekli Tepe in Turkey, an archaeological site that attracts conspiracy theories. Lee Clare, an archaeologist who has led the excavation site for over a decade, has heard it all — including the outlandish theories.https://t.co/uHfmOP068r

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Grim results from a new National Science Foundation Survey https://t.co/CpVkwCnYuX

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Artifacts in US museums explain the outsized role of racism in the nation's history.Public access to these items at federal sites may be restricted or prohibited under Trump administration rules. https://t.co/XgapSXYAZv

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In memoriam: Ruth Krulfeld, long time anthropology professor at George Washington University and women’s rights advocate, dies at 94 https://t.co/Yt5Fc9xg6k

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Gorillas to be further endangered: the Democratic Republic of the Congo is opening crucial gorilla habitats and pristine forests to bids for oil and gas drilling, with plans to carve up more than half the country into fossil fuel blocks.
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Hollywood, CA: report on a visit to Musk's new drive-in diner: hype and glitches https://t.co/R2zo751wbZ

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The Native telling of Sacagawea's story is "richer and more ambiguous" https://t.co/EH9qiYHbTk

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Interview with a British surgeon about his latest stint in Gaza https://t.co/OfNQ6TIEZz

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Florida representative comments on her "curated" visit to "Alligator Alcatraz" https://t.co/1WOAPFzfXe

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The only country in the world to do so, Japan requires name change after marriage — with big effects on female scientists https://t.co/SABEJr1ITf

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Meddling in a UN investigation of human rights abuses in Gaza: Trump's rationale? That there are serious human rights abuses in Gaza and that the US is deeply implicated ? https://t.co/tyfx0t862S

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US Supreme Court ponders the balance of power – and sides with President Trump https://t.co/qGx5BaTJm9 via @ConversationUK

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US: Confederacy group sues Georgia park for planning an exhibit on slavery and segregation https://t.co/xRGxot9m3p

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Unmasking fascism: Edward Said’s pedagogy of wakefulness in an age of educational repression - https://t.co/MV55LOZXGi https://t.co/tuyxAn3ACC

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Keep telling their stories https://t.co/8HMSCJuxgS

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US: So far, Trump is not getting what he wants from this intervention https://t.co/7QQHq3AzDK

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Lessons about universal, affordable child care from Quebec
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