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Marshall, Mo. (November 10, 2009)-- Missouri Valley College, along with Missouri's Civil War Heritage Foundation, will host a reception to honor Doug Scott, forensic archaeologist from the University of Nebraska- Lincoln, Nov. 13, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. in the Ferguson Center's R. Wilson Brown room on the MVC campus.
Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk turns anthropologist of experience in his new work, “The Museum of Innocence.” He does this by encapsulating the world's beauty, childhood and happiness with a master writer's control of an obsessive personality.
HUAMPAMI, Peru — In his first year at San Marcos University, Hermenegildo Espejo barely spoke, and certainly not in class. His Spanish was rudimentary, his accent an embarrassment. Classmates in Lima, a two-day trip from his Amazon home town, laughed at his grammatical stumbles, his odd pronunciation.
Traffic and safety were among the most common concerns cited about a proposed Walmart in 10 letters written to the city in advance of the project’s environmental review.
Debra Green, 55, has been the Director of the Fred C. Fischer Library in Belleville for 22 years.
The city’s Department of Parks & Recreation and the Historic House Trust have taken ownership of Flushing’s Bowne House, the oldest structure in Queens and one of the oldest in the city.
Statistically speaking, there are few aspiring professionals like Rowin Begay.
Local 2 Investigates travels to the border city of Juarez, Mexico, where murders, kidnappings and carjackings have become a daily occurrence.
Summit’s archaeologists encompasses all phases of archaeological investigations from assessments of the potential for archaeological sites through full-scale ...
Cavemen near border may be responsible.
St. Joseph archaeologist Mike Fisher will tell anyone just how much he’s dug the summers of the past 45 years.
BLANDING, Utah (AP) — High above the spiky sandstone spine known as Comb Ridge that snakes for 120 miles through the desert, archaeologist Winston Hurst treads carefully through a cave of ruins.
Anyone Who Has Taken An Anthropology Course Has Probably Heard Of Claude Levi-Strauss, Who Died Recently At Age 100.
Claude Levi-Strauss is widely considered the father of modern anthropology for work that included theories about commonalities between tribal and industrial societies. During his six-decade career, he authored literary and anthropological classics including Tristes Tropiques .
Levi-Strauss is credited with introducing the subject of structuralism, which seeks common patterns among human societies. The French intellectual also wrote literary and anthropological classics. Claude Levi-Strauss, widely considered the father of modern anthropology for work that included theories about commonalities between tribal and industrial societies, has died. He was 100.
A Northern Ireland filmmaker has won euro46,000 in damages after a judge ruled that his Irish island home was transformed into a parking lot while he was overseas.
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