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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.

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

Anthropology News

Intersectional Anthropology. I’ll start with a confession: I am not a cultural anthropologist. I call this a “confession” because “ (bio)archaeologists ” like me—scholars who identify with archaeology, biological anthropology, or both—are not necessarily known for centering social theories like Intersectionality in our subdisciplines.

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Enrollment and financial crises threaten growing list of academic disciplines

The Hechinger Report

It was two weeks before the university would be abruptly shut down by the coronavirus, and every corner of the campus seemed jampacked — except this quiet classroom, where a handful of students were studying the societies and cultures of the Caribbean. So the projects brought in teams from African studies programs who understood the culture.

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The Pedagogy Of The Oppressed Freire

TeachThought

As we grapple with issues of social justice and equity in education, “The Pedagogy of the Oppressed” remains a powerful critique of oppressive systems and–with the right mindset–a roadmap for transformation. Footnote #8: Sartre, op. wouldn’t all this be a world?

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OPINION: Is this minority group too small to have a voice on campus?

The Hechinger Report

The capitalization of the “m” is deliberate, to be inclusive of the linguistic and cultural diversity in HMoob communities, and we use “-oob” rather than “-ong” to follow the Hmong Romanized Popular Alphabet, which we feel best represents what HMoob people call themselves in their native tongue.

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Putting Language to Work in the Dominican Republic 

Anthropology News

This headline provoked intense conversation among youth in a language and social justice course I developed with three multilingual educators at a nonprofit organization (Institute for the Future, IFF). The post Putting Language to Work in the Dominican Republic appeared first on Anthropology News.

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Bleeding-Edge Praxis: Leveraging Anthropology and Feminist Science for Emerging Issues

Anthropology News

Echoing other times when women have mobilized to draw attention to an overlooked health issue, some blamed menstrual changes on “ the stress of the entire year … The pandemic, and the political and social justice pieces, that I think have really affected people.” We will continue listening.