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Active learning as a pedagogical strategy to enhance the learning of anthropology

Teaching Anthropology

Marilou Polymeropoulou, University of Oxford, School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography Active learning is a well-established pedagogical strategy in secondary and tertiary education where independent learning and critical thinking are nurtured. Three challenges in teaching anthropology. Teaching Anthropology 1 (2), pp.

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Intersectional Anthropology as an Avenue Toward Praxis, Pedagogy, and New Anthropological Horizons

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Intersectional Anthropology. I’ll start with a confession: I am not a cultural anthropologist. Here, I share about my class, “Intersectional Anthropology,” and reflect on some of the ways it has played into my career, while also acknowledging my privileges as a person who holds a Ph.D. I received my Ph.D.

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The Stone Blades of Jebel Faya: Rewriting the Story of Early Humans in Arabia

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Credit: Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences (2025). DOI: 10.1007/s12520-025-02164-z The findings, published in Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 1 , offer crucial insights into early human technology and adaptation. Credit: Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences (2025). What Comes Next?

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Transcultural Materiality in the Work of Magdalene Odundo

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A Reflection on the 2023 Ivan Karp Workshop in Museum Anthropology, organized by the Council for Museum Anthropology Spot-lit sweeping ceramic vases made by the artist Dame Magdalene Odundo were the centerpieces of the exhibition Magdalene Odundo: A Dialogue with Objects presented at the Gardiner Museum from October 2023 to April 2024.

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Revisiting the Spiritual Violence of BS Jobs

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The late David Graeber was an American professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics. Graeber’s book is conversational in style, drawing on history, literature, sociology, anthropology, and pop culture to support his arguments. David Graeber speaks at a panel in 2012.

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PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

Anthropology for Beginners

There is much disagreement about whether the study of public administration can properly be called a discipline, largely because of the debate over whether public administration is a subfield of political science or a subfield of administrative science (Kenneth 2012) [1].From Policy research. Programme evaluator and designer 3. Advocator 7.

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Slaughterhouse Vigils

Anthropology News

In 2012, they began by recording pigs inside an AgroSuper factory farm. Ariana Gunderson is the section contributing editor for the Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition. The post Slaughterhouse Vigils appeared first on Anthropology News. Activists knew they needed their own documentation.