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Bringing Anthropological Concepts to Life in a Virtual Peer Exchange

Teaching Anthropology

In this instance, the online platform Flip enabled cross-institutional, cross-border student interactions to discuss cultural similarities and differences— core subject matter of anthropology. Seventy undergraduate Anthropology students at The University of the West Indies (UWI) St.

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The Emic Perspective of Generative AI

Teaching Anthropology

For anyone who has been teaching anthropology over the last two years, the latter will be of no surprise to you. (As 2023, and Ouyang et al., As we all teach in our Introduction to Anthropology classes, the emic perspective is essential for understanding a cultural practice. We are the discipline of anthropology.

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Home-Carrying—A Repatriation Trip to Vanuatu 100 Years in the Making

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An anthropologist and poet reflects on a journey of return that tells a larger story about human connection, acts of Indigenous solidarity, and the potential for repair within anthropology. IN 2023, I BEGAN the process of consultation toward repatriation on behalf of the anthropology department.

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Translation Notes

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In November 2023 , Ian Fry , the first U.N. I turned back to my fragmented translation notes as a source for a project of documentary poeticsone where technical language is transformed and humanized into a poem to aid in demanding justice, in a similar vein as some anthropological poetry. Read the introduction to the collection here.

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Call For Papers: Trauma Informed Anthropology

Teaching Anthropology

How might we recognise and engage with understandings of trauma, and what implications might this have for anthropological research and teaching? This Teaching Anthropology Special Issue will explore approaches to trauma-informed anthropology and to consider key emerging discussions around trauma-informed approaches more broadly.

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London Anthropology Day (30th June)

Teaching Anthropology

London Anthropology day, 30 th June 2023, British Museum Are you fascinated by different cultures? Discover what anthropology is all about by popping along to the British Musuem for London Anthropology Day. You’ll gain hands-on experience of what it is like to study anthropology.

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Multimodal ethnographies for teaching anthropological sensibilities

Teaching Anthropology

Anna Apostolidou PhD, Assistant Professor of Social Anthropology, Ionian University Given the history of our discipline, it seems rather peculiar that anthropologists are not more “naturally inclined” to employ multimodality in their research and teaching. which are becoming increasingly user-friendly and flexible (Apostolidou, 2023).