All posts tagged "Anthropology"

PHILADELPHIA — On Saturday, the Penn Museum will host a public commemoration and interfaith burial service for 19 unidentified Black Philadelphians, likely enslaved during their lifetimes, who died in the 1830s and 1840s but were never laid to rest. Their skulls were severed from their bodies and stolen by white supremacist scientist Samuel G. Morton, who added them to his collection of more than 1,300 crania — to be examined by anthropologists for nearly 200 years. But this ceremony won’t put to rest the controversy around Penn’s handling of these remains. Instead, it adds another messy chapt......

SAN JOSE — A controversial anthropology professor at San Jose State, who contended she was a victim of a “woke activist mob” for opposing the repatriation of Native American remains and posing in a photo with an ancient skull, has agreed to leave the university next year. Professor Elizabeth Weiss and the university reached a settlement that allows her to retire with full benefits at the end of the 2023-2024 school year, after she claimed in a lawsuit that the university retaliated against her and violated her First Amendment rights when it locked her out of the collection of skeletal remains.......

Jacob Noble doesn’t have many friends who eat in Italian restaurants. “They go for Mexican or Chinese,” said Noble, 24, a guitar teacher in Langhorne, Pennsylvania. Italian cuisine is “for eating sitting down,” he added. “Mexican and Chinese have more dishes that fit better with young people’s grab-and-go culture. The only portable Italian is pizza.” Besides, he said, “Mexican lends itself to be shared. Nachos are communal. And way more affordable.” Part of an intergenerational food revolution, Noble represents how Americans under 45 choose to eat these days. Millennials (ages 27 to 42) and th......

MIAMI — Students at one Florida public university say that they have had positive experiences with diversity programming and classes at their university and feel that shutting them down would make them feel unsafe or hinder their education, according to recent survey results shared with the Miami Herald. All within the past two months, Gov. Ron DeSantis announced a proposal to defund and eliminate diversity, equity and inclusion programs in public universities, asking each school to submit a list of programs and classes related to DEI and critical race theory. He also required schools to submi......

DETROIT — Federal agents arrested a former University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate student at Detroit Metropolitan Airport who flew to America from Copenhagen on Friday after threatening students, faculty and staff members at his alma mater and vowing to hide the flesh of their children in hamburger meat, according to federal court records chronicling the latest violent threat posed to a college campus. Arvin Raj Mathur, 32, is in the St. Clair County Jail and awaiting a detention hearing Tuesday in federal court in Detroit after being charged with emailing threats to nine people, including g......

The three Michigan State University students who were killed in the mass shooting on campus will receive posthumous degrees, university officials said Thursday. The families of Arielle Anderson of Harper Woods, Brian Fraser of Grosse Pointe and Alexandria Verner of Clawson have confirmed their interest in accepting the degrees on behalf of their loved ones, MSU spokesman Dan Olsen told The Detroit News. Though details of when and how the degrees will be received haven't been fully planned with the families, Olsen said posthumous degrees usually are awarded during the upcoming commencement cere......