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Earlier this year, the city began an earnest, multiyear collaboration with the La Mesa Historical Society and faculty and students from the anthropology and history departments at San Diego State University to update the list. — Karen Pearlman, San Diego Union-Tribune, "La Mesa taking another look at historical buildings," 12 Sep. 2019 Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft, a writer and historian and MIT visiting scholar in anthropology, spent five years researching and delving into these questions, and more. — BostonGlobe.com, "The author of ‘Meat Planet’ is coming to Cambridge - The Boston Globe," 10 Sep. 2019 The organizations share research in archaeology, anthropology and history to save wreck sites, reconstruct disrupted cultural heritage and connect communities to their past. — Chris Searles, National Geographic, "Most slave shipwrecks have been overlooked—until now," 23 Aug. 2019 The author is a professor of geography (and urban studies, at Temple University), but his analysis combines urban planning, economics, anthropology and military history. — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, "Opinion: Democrats Fail to Learn from Hillary Clinton on Climate Change," 5 July 2019 There are more than 60,000 objects of natural history, anthropology, history and art. — Arizona Republic, azcentral, "Summer in Arizona: Locals share 100 fun ways to survive the 100-degree heat in Phoenix," 1 July 2019 Actors Aren’t Commodities’ Everyone argues about the new anthropology of auditioning. — New York Times, "Get Out of My Light, Honey. I’m Auditioning Here.," 30 Aug. 2019 Franz Boas, a German immigrant, was the Pied Piper of modern American anthropology. — David Holahan, USA TODAY, "'Gods of the Upper Air': How renegade anthropologists studied, celebrated 'the other'," 5 Aug. 2019 Among the theories gaining currency were those of Alfred Radcliffe-Brown, a British researcher who visited the Andamans from 1906 to 1908, whose study of the tribes was foundational to the new discipline of social anthropology. — Alex Perry, Outside Online, "The Last Days of John Allen Chau," 24 July 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'anthropology.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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