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Digital Anthropology: The ‘Hug Box’ Mentality in Collective Cyberactivism on Instagram

Studies have documented a pervasive hug box mentality involved in cyberactivism. Despite having access to vast networks of information, users continually seek similarities on social media. In this digital hug box, they tend to consume and redistribute content that reinforces … Continue reading Digital Anthropology: The ‘Hug Box’ Mentality in Collective Cyberactivism on Instagram

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Anthropology: 11 Fascinating Cultural Rituals and Customs in Indonesia

Indonesian culture is founded on basic etiquette principles that inform many traditional rituals. Hierarchical relationships are respected and maintained, with those showing status, power and age preserving superiority in this hierarchy. From digging up loved ones’ corpses to piercing tongues … Continue reading Anthropology: 11 Fascinating Cultural Rituals and Customs in Indonesia

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Ecology: The Real Cost of the Fast-Fashion Industry on Earth

Fast fashion satisfies our inherent desire for constant innovation, rapid consumption and economic efficiency. It’s a perfectly targeted win for consumers that simultaneously leeches life from our environment. HEY YOU, YES YOU! WANT 99% OFF YOUR DREAM WARDROBE? SHOP ONLINE … Continue reading Ecology: The Real Cost of the Fast-Fashion Industry on Earth

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Anthropology: What Can America Learn from Norway’s Prison System?

Penal institutions (prisons) are essential structures of any well-ordered society. However, their universal necessity should not detract from their problematic nature in many aspects of social life. The United States has one of the highest crime and recidivist (reoffending) rates … Continue reading Anthropology: What Can America Learn from Norway’s Prison System?

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Anthropology: Corporate Harm, Strategic Responsibility, and the Environment

Corporate harm is a pervasive and inescapable consequence of modern life. Multinational corporations have increasing freedoms to operate across borders with limited jurisdictional constraints. As such, they have control over vast amounts of wealth and influence. This article explores how … Continue reading Anthropology: Corporate Harm, Strategic Responsibility, and the Environment

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Ecology: Is Lab-Grown Meat the Food for a Sustainable Future?

Lab-grown meat (or ‘cultured meat’) is a painless, torture-free process that uses cellular agriculture to satisfy the increasing demand for food by the swelling human population. Lab-grown meat has less strain on the environment and has the potential to produce … Continue reading Ecology: Is Lab-Grown Meat the Food for a Sustainable Future?

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Anthropology: Cultural Significance of Uluru and the Tourist Gaze

As the sun stoops beneath the desert’s enflamed sand blanket, Uluru presents a magnifying beauty; it strikingly protrudes as a natural lightbulb, illuminating Australia’s vast dry landscape with a soft glow. Uluru is a large sandstone formation located in the … Continue reading Anthropology: Cultural Significance of Uluru and the Tourist Gaze

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Anthropology: Flowers and Their Unique Meanings in Russian Culture

Plucking them from their life-sustaining soil, we gift flowers to loved ones as symbolic gestures of love and gratitude. Ironically, in doing so, the flower’s once eternal beauty becomes transient and short-lived. The flower lives out its final days as … Continue reading Anthropology: Flowers and Their Unique Meanings in Russian Culture

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Anthropology: India’s Holi Festival Paints a Colorful Cultural History

Anthropologists have long been fascinated by the use of colors and art to symbolize cultural histories and stories. As humans, we categorise colourful visuals and ascribe different meanings with the hopes of achieving a collective understanding of our belonging in … Continue reading Anthropology: India’s Holi Festival Paints a Colorful Cultural History