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December 2020 Monthly Magazine on E-Book Anthropology Curious December 2020 Table of Contents C U R I O U S DECEMBER 2020 MONTHLY MAGAZINE ON E-BOOK ANTHROPOLOGY CURIOUS DECEMBER 2020 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Crisis and Opportunity—A Look at 2020 2. Climate Change May Have Been a Major Driver of Ancient Hominin Extinctions 3. Were Neanderthals More Than Cousins to Homo Sapiens? 4. It’s Official: Neanderthals Created Art 5. Who First Buried the Dead? 6. New Hominin Shakes the Family Tree—Again 7. How Did Belief Evolve? 8. India’s attitude to arranged marriage is changing. But some say not fast enough 9. Why Endogamous Marriages Could Make Us An Unhealthy Population 10. Trifed Signs MoU with Akhil Bhartiya Vanvasi Kalyan Ashram for Setting up of TRIFOOD Parks in Madhya Pradesh 12. TRIFED to Collaborate with Various Ministries and Departments for GI Tagging of tribal Products 13. Shri Arjun Munda Inaugurates New Office of National Education Society (NEST) for Tribal Students & Other Renovated Offices of Ministry of Tribal Affairs 14. TRIFED Signs MoU with MOFPI For Upliftment of Tribal Lives Through the Implementation of The PM- FME Scheme 15. Giant Rock Bee Honey, a Unique Variant of Honey Sourced From Malayali Tribes of Tamil Nadu Added to Tribes India Collection 16. Trifed Signs MoU with Day-NRLM M/O Rural Development to Foster Tribal Livelihood Development Through Synergies 17. In India, Manual Scavenging Goes Beyond An ‘Occupation’: It’s A Human Rights Issue 18. Legal discrimination of religious minorities 19. ASI identifies 5 Adhichanallur sites for museum 20. Robert Bruce Foote: The father of India’s prehistory 21. Christian families 'threatened', asked to leave villages in Chhattisgarh 22.How Buddhism waxed and waned in India 23. Unlawful Religious Conversion Bills – Part 1 24. Why are Christians being attacked in Adivasi villages in Chhattisgarh? 25. Expansion of Scheme of Minimum Support Price(MSP) for Minor Forest Produce(MFP) and Upward Revision of MSP of Existing Items during 2020 26. Ministry of Tribal Affairs launches ‘Goal’ programme for Digital Skilling of Tribal Youth across India in partnership with Facebook (15th May, 2020) 27. Ministry of Tribal Affairs Launches Tribal Health & Nutrition Portal – ‘Swasthya’ (17th August, 2020) 28 Online Performance Dashboard named “Empowering Tribals, Transforming India” launched 29. Ministry of Tribal Affairs signs MoU with IIPA for Setting up National Institute of Tribal Research (NITR) at IIPA Campus, New Delhi (4th September, 2020) 30. Shri Arjun Munda Launches ‘Capacity Building Programme for Scheduled Tribes PRI Representatives’ and ‘1000 Springs Initiatives’ in Bhubaneswar (27th February, 2020) 31. EMRS/EMDBS holidays re-scheduled in view of contingent health situation due to COVID-19 (26th March, 2020) 32. Shri Arjun Munda wrote to Chief Ministers to advise State Nodal Agencies for undertaking procurement of minor forest produce at MSP in right earnest (8th April, 2020) 33. Shri Arjun Munda launches ‘Goal’ programme of M/o Tribal Affairs for Digital Skilling of Tribal Youth across India in partnership with Facebook(15th May, 2020) 34. M/o Tribal Affairs receives SKOCH Gold Award for its “Empowerment of Tribals through IT enabled Scholarship Schemes” (31st July, 2020) 35. M/o Tribal Affairs Setting up Tribal Freedom Fighters’ Museums to give due Recognition to Sacrifices and Contribution to Country’s Freedom Struggle by Tribal People (11th August, 2020) 36. Joint Communique Signed between M/O Tribal Affairs and M/O Food Processing Industries Defining Convergence Mechanism in Implementation of PMFME Scheme for Micro Food Processing Industries (18th December, 2020) 37. Success Story of Ice Stupa: Unique Initiative under Centre of Excellence Project 38. TRIFED Launches transformational “Tech For Tribals” program in partnership with Institutes of National Importance (INIs) to develop Tribal entrepreneurship - (20 March, 2020) 39. TRIFED takes a giant leap towards digitisation of Tribal Commerce- (25 June, 2020) 40. Trifed Launches its Own Virtual Office Network to Spearhead Tribal Socio-Economic Development on its 33rd Foundation day- (07 AUG 2020) 41. Team Trifed Wins Virtual Edition of National Awards for Excellence in PSU for Investment in Start-Ups – (14 OCT 2020) 42. Trifed, M/o Tribal Affairs to Expand Convergence Model in a big way to step up Tribal Incomes, Skills and Entrepreneurship..200 Projects to be taken up under Trifood/SFURTI Model-(26 November, 2020) VIJETHA IAS ACADEMY ADDRESS: 7/50, II FLOOR, NEAR ROOP VATIKA, SHANKAR ROAD, OLD RAJENDAR NAGAR, NEW DELHI — 110060 HOTLINE: 011- 42473555, 9650852636 , 7678508541 , DATABASE: WWW.VIJETHAIASACADEMY.COM CURIOUS 2020 DECEMBER COMPILATION 1. Crisis and Opportunity—A Look at 2020 THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC 2020 will be remembered as the year that COVID-19 swept the globe. This highly contagious virus moves from person to person, so its spread depends on human behavior. When and why we gather, and how often we wash our hands or wear masks can all make a difference. Social scientists have created virtual networks to apply their knowledge of human behavior to aid public health efforts. The virus has clearly affected some groups more than others; tracking these outcomes has illuminated disparities in suffering. Anthropologists have helped untangle how racism—not race—is a factor in the severity of COVID-19. They have also thrown a spotlight on how the pandemic has impacted older people, Indigenous peoples, migrants, refugees, undocumented essential workers, and pregnant women. Anthropologists are asking tough questions about whether the current attention given to inequality will prompt corrective action and whether this global challenge will help bind or further divide humanity. Anthropologists are also well-placed to study the myriad social side effects of pandemic suppression policies, such as feelings of isolation and attempts to forge deeper online connections. Human behaviors have undergone a major shift this year, and ethnographers are on the front lines of describing and analyzing those changes: the desire to make music or bake bread in lockdown, how people turn to the magical (or develop false beliefs) to make sense of a chaotic world, the changing nature of sex work and dating, and the reawakening of spiritual understandings in a new, more distanced world. SAPIENS alone published dozens of pieces relating to the many medical and social impacts of the pandemic as anthropologists put their ideas to work. BLACK LIVES MATTER MOVEMENT GAINS MOMENTUM In May, police officers’ appalling killing of George Floyd, an African American man in Minneapolis, sent shockwaves through the world at large. Subsequent protests kindled urgent discussions of the long-standing problems of police violence and racism in the United States and elsewhere. Anthropologists in Brazil, the country with the largest Afro-descendant population outside of Nigeria, have been examining horrific levels of police violence against Black men for decades, along with calls to defund police forces and redirect money into social support services. Other anthropologists have focused on police violence in the United States (including a significant book about police torture; see Bookshelf below) and shone a light on how the pandemic interacts with these incidents. Poetry provides another means for anthropologists to respond to anti-Black violence, as various cultures grapple with the legacy of European colonialism, slavery, and persistent White supremacy. DIVERSIFYING ANTHROPOLOGY In the midst of Black Lives Matter protests, 2020 became a moment of reckoning for the field of anthropology—a discipline whose academic roots problematically lie in White colonial-era researchers pursuing false ideas of a biologically determined racial hierarchy. While those pseudoscientific notions have largely faded, biases still remain. Anthropology and archaeology remain fields predominantly comprised of White people, with consequences for what is studied and what questions are asked. Organizations such as the Association of Black Anthropologists, Society of Black Archaeologists, and Society for Cultural Anthropology, among others, are working to make changes. Meanwhile, scholars are debating how to make anthropology more self-critical or whether practitioners should “let it burn” and start the discipline anew. SAPIENS magazine took the opportunity to reassess our policy on the styling of racial terms, opting to begin capitalizing Black, White, and Brown; to build new partnerships; and to reaffirm our commitment to inviting marginalized voices to the center of conversations. CLIMATE CHANGE RAGES ON In January, it looked like 2020’s defining feature was set to be the climate. As Australia burned in the wake of dramatic droughts, activists looked toward the 50th anniversary of Earth Day in April as a chance to flag the planet’s plight. Then the pandemic arrived and overshadowed these plans. VIJETHA IAS ACADEMY ADDRESS: 7/50, II FLOOR, NEAR ROOP VATIKA, SHANKAR ROAD, OLD RAJENDAR NAGAR, NEW DELHI — 110060 HOTLINE: 011- 42473555, 9650852636 , 7678508541 , DATABASE: WWW.VIJETHAIASACADEMY.COM CURIOUS 2020 DECEMBER COMPILATION Nonetheless, climate change continued to be one of the most pressing issues of the year as temperatures hit record highs, storms raged, and fires came to the western U.S. Anthropologists continued to work hard to put the climate challenge into perspective, examine which cultures have proven most resilient to environmental challenges and disasters in the past, and highlight how some—including Indigenous groups—are leading the charge for climate action.
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