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UT Arlington anthropologist awarded prestigious Leakey Foundation grant to research early humans in South Africa

Tue, Feb 03, 2015 06:59 CET

ARLINGTON, Texas -- University of Texas at Arlington anthropologist has been awarded a grant from the prestigious Leakey Foundation that will enable her to research early humans in South Africa. Naomi Cleghorn, assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, will lead a team of researchers and students this summer to a site near Knysna, South Africa, on the southern coast of the continent. She believes the site dates to a rarely represented time period – between 44,000 and 18,000 years ago – and holds never-before-seen evidence of early human evolution. The

Anthropologist’s new book examines newspaper cartoons’ importance to politics and culture

Mon, Nov 03, 2014 23:33 CET

ARLINGTON, Texas -- A University of Texas at Arlington cultural anthropologist breaks ground in media and South Asian studies with a new book focused on newspaper cartoons, the cartoonists and the public reception of cartoons in India. “Caricaturing Culture in India: Cartoons and History in the Modern World” was recently published by Cambridge University Press. In the book, Ritu Gairola Khanduri, an associate professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology in the UT Arlington College of Liberal Arts, reveals how cartoons serve as teaching moments about identity politics and

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UT Arlington anthropologist awarded prestigious Leakey Foundation grant to research early humans in South Africa

Anthropologist’s new book examines newspaper cartoons’ importance to politics and culture

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