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Teaching Anthropology
MARCH 7, 2024
By Shelene Gomes, University of the West Indies, & Lara Watkins, Bridgewater State University Students can read about culture, but hearing peers narrate personal experiences in another country provides invaluable firsthand insights. Analysing these narratives allows for a deeper understanding of cultural differences.
Anthropology for Beginners
JUNE 1, 2021
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Spatial turn in Urban Anthropology Contents Urban Space studies: 1 Contested Urban Space. 2 The methodological and theoretical use of spatiality within anthropology began with ethnographies that examined the relationship of architecture and culture. 1 Racialized Space.
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Anthropology News
NOVEMBER 3, 2024
This entry marks our departure as Contributing Editors for the Association for Feminist Anthropology’s (AFA) column in Anthropology News ( AN ). We also write to reflect on the works we patiently, lovingly, and laboriously shepherded into publication over the past four years and what they reveal about feminist anthropology.
Anthropology for Beginners
NOVEMBER 28, 2021
It is also known as physical anthropology, which originally referred to the study of human biology within the framework of evolution and with an emphasis on the interaction between biology and culture. Osteology, the study of the skeleton, is central to physical anthropology.
Teaching Anthropology
FEBRUARY 1, 2023
To his point, I find the current slew of handwashing videos on YouTube and other sites to be excellent resources for anthropology class projects, and utilize several in an activity that nurtures introductory students’ skills in critical thinking and observation. Why and how it is done varies across cultures.
Anthropology for Beginners
NOVEMBER 10, 2022
iv] Anthropological attention to Peasant study: Although Robert Redfield’s fieldwork in Mexico as early as 1926 is considered to be the first attempt to see peasant as an analytical category, the study of peasant or the use of the term peasant is quite old. Some scholars emphasized generic cultural or “folk” characteristics of peasants. [vi]
Anthropology News
SEPTEMBER 3, 2024
Anthropology and taxidermy are not dissimilar practices. The result may be an incorrect imitation of the original, based on a lack of information or a lack of skill. ” It does seem to me that, in academic anthropology especially, we tend to forget to do anything with the bodies collected. And all the photos?'”
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