Teaching Anthropology

APRIL 13, 2024

In PBL small groups of students work on a practical case study, both independently and collaboratively, to come up with open ended solutions (see Fukuzawa & Boyd, 2016). The VMP content spans the subfields of biological anthropology (evolutionary, primatology), and archaeology. Journal of Research and Practice of College Teaching.

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Archaeology Anthropology Museum Pedagogy 264

Teaching Anthropology

MAY 8, 2023

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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Anthropology Sociology Archaeology Museum 130

Anthropology for Beginners

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

The presentation of the findings of archaeology to the public cannot avoid difficult political issues, and the museum curator and the popularizer today have responsibilities which some can be seen to have failed. Colin Renfrew and Paul Bahn (2016) Archaeology: Theories, Methods and Practice. New York: Thames and Hudson 2.

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Archaeology Cultures Anthropology Heritage 130

Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 13, 2024

The Kennis brothers, courtesy of The Natural History Museum, London New Insights from Ancient Genomes A groundbreaking study analyzed 58 ancient Eurasian genomes alongside the DNA of 275 contemporary humans. Journal : Cell , 2016. Journal : American Journal of Physical Anthropology , 2011. DOI : 10.1016/j.cell.2016.03.012

Humanities 98

Humanities Ancestry Anthropology Museum 98

ASHP CML

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Visiting Lecturers and Session Leaders Louise Bernard is the director of the Museum of the Obama Presidential Center. She is the author of Educational Reconstruction: African American Schools in the Urban South, 1865-1890 (2016). Green is associate professor of history at the University of Alabama. And the co-series editor with J.

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Museum American History History Library 40

Sapiens

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Since European contact, Indigenous people have struggled to protect the lands —which outsiders often describe as a vast “ outdoor museum ”—from vandalism and desecration, organizing through formal and informal channels for the protection of the Bears Ears landscape. As managers of federally protected lands in the U.S.

Cultures 105

Cultures Tradition Humanities Museum 105

Sapiens

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

While studying to become a physician, I was one of the lucky few who had the chance to also study human genetic evolution and its impact on health—topics missing from most medical curricula but central to fields such as biological anthropology. These fields understood that racial categories used today in the U.S.

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Ancestry Anthropology Humanities Museum 143