Anthropology News

MARCH 31, 2025

Having hoped to bring the exhibit to campus for the past number of years, we were finally able to do so after securing a small grant from our campus Center for the Latino/a and Latin American Studies Center (CLLAS), and with collaboration from the UO Museum of Natural and Cultural History. I would have given them hugs and told them Welcome.

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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.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

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. Earning a Ph.D.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

The courses covered many domains—design, medicine, the environment—but most featured an anthropological flair, and most of the organizers had an anthropology background. I titled my course—one of the four core courses—“Tears of the Earth: An Anthropological Thinking Experiment.”

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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.

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Anthropology News

MARCH 4, 2025

From the audience, as an anthropologist-in-training afraid her fieldwork would amount to nothing, I was thrilled to hear a cultural-historical reference on the nose enough for me to easily interpret (ventriloquize?). This statement might seem at first glance to be in line with an account that considers history and cultural conditions.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 15, 2025

A recent paper in the American Journal of Biological Anthropology urges anthropologists and anatomists to confront the legacy of human skeletal collections and calls for a new ethical framework that prioritizes transparency, community collaboration, and respect for the deceased. Annual Review of Anthropology, 51 , 125-142.

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Anthropology News

MARCH 4, 2025

Among French Jews of Tunisian descent, there has been a recent resurgence of interest in their ancestors lifestyle before migration and with their cultural and linguistic heritage. Sarah Muir and Courtney Handman are the section contributing editors for the Society for Linguistic Anthropology.

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Teaching Anthropology

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

By Erin-Lee Halstad McGuire, Associate Teaching Professor at the University of Victoria, BC, Canada My Introduction to Anthropology course concludes with a unit on sustainability, which covers topics like globalisation, food security, and diet. This mattered to me as I teach at a Canadian institution. Taylor & Francis.

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Teaching Anthropology

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

ELIZABETH KEATING, Professor of Anthropology & Graduate Faculty, Human Dimensions of Organizations, The University of Texas at Austin Teaching through research is recognized as one of the strengths of anthropology. The interview assignment encouraged them to see anthropology in conversation with their own families.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

The following is the latest installment of the Toward Better Teaching advice column. However, how do I know how inclusive I am in my teaching? The first step in making this goal of reaching diverse learners is to reflect on what it means to be inclusive in teaching, and letting that guide our teaching.

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Teaching Anthropology

AUGUST 24, 2024

By Erin-Lee Halstad McGuire, Department of Anthropology, University of Victoria, Canada My first-year anthropology students are often surprised to learn they will be studying biology as part of their introduction to anthropology. Primatology is one of our early course topics, following directly after an introduction to culture.

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Teaching Anthropology

AUGUST 14, 2024

By Erin-Lee Halstad McGuire, Department of Anthropology, University of Victoria, Canada We are all familiar with Spurgeon’s adage: “begin as you mean to go on.” The value of icebreakers in teaching is well-studied, with recent scholarship highlighting how they can ease anxiety in student interactions (e.g. Zulkifli, C.

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Teaching Anthropology

AUGUST 14, 2024

By Erin-Lee Halstad McGuire, Department of Anthropology, University of Victoria, Canada We are all familiar with Spurgeon’s adage: “begin as you mean to go on.” The value of icebreakers in teaching is well-studied, with recent scholarship highlighting how they can ease anxiety in student interactions (e.g. Zulkifli, C.

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Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Its about maintaining connectionto her culture and to those who gather for her dessert. Im teaching her! The post Food as Care: Stories of Forced Displacement and Connection appeared first on Anthropology News. She taught herself in Rochester, choosing jaggery because it felt righta Sri Lankan ingredient for a Sri Lankan dish.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

But was its use during the Upper Paleolithic purely practical, or did it hold deeper cultural significance? The research, published in Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 1 , presents compelling micro-archaeological evidence that fire was not just a survival tool but a defining cultural trait of the Gravettian tradition.

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Anthropology News

JULY 16, 2024

Each intern produced a visual summary of their chosen research article on Canva , showing us how anthropological research can be communicated in different forms and to different audiences! Alyana Seidel Growing up in Malaysia, Alyana developed a deep interest in understanding how different cultures and societies interact with each other.

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Anthropology News

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

as a pracademic who teaches a multidisciplinary undergraduate course focused on entrepreneurship, and as a social scientist whose passion resides in studying the intersections of race, space, and ethnicity. In autoethnographic work, the researcher conducts anthropological fieldwork on himself/herself/themselves and their experiences.

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Anthropology News

JULY 15, 2024

Issued: July 15, 2024 Pitches due: rolling until November 1, 2024 First drafts due: 3 weeks after pitch decision Submit Here Anthropology News invites submissions on the forms of care that permeate human and nonhuman worlds. The post Call for Pitches: Care appeared first on Anthropology News.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 15, 2024

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. Read more from the archives: “ The Anthropology Professor in an Amazon Warehouse.”

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 29, 2024

Issued: January 29, 2024 Response deadline: February 23, 2024 Pitch responses: February 29, 2024 First drafts due: March 27, 2024 For our third issue of 2024, Anthropology News is delving into the burgeoning field of artificial intelligence (AI) and its intricate relationship with human reality. And is humanity shaping AI?

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 23, 2025

Congregants meet twice a week to read and discuss the Bible, have Q&A sessions for The Watchtower magazine teachings, and sing worship songs. Like all other members of his congregation, Jonah kept meticulous track of the hours he spent following Jesus command that disciples spread the Truth of biblical teachings to all nations.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 23, 2025

His life and work were dedicated to studying migration processes and their influence on the construction of cultural identity in Rio Grande do Sul. The historiography of immigration has lost one of its greatest voices, but the impact of his discoveries and teachings will live on for many years.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2021

Cynthia Stretch and John O’Connor, who teach English and sociology, respectively, at different campuses in the Connecticut State University System, are among faculty protesting a proposal to increase their teaching loads from four courses a semester to five. Credit: Yunuen Bonaparte for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2020

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. If you close that program down, you lose all that other revenue.

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TeachThought

JULY 2, 2024

Its enduring significance stems from its profound critique of traditional teaching and learning methods. The teacher is no longer merely the-one-who-teaches, but one who is himself taught in dialogue with the students, who in turn while being taught also teach. Here, no one teaches another, nor is anyone self-taught.

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Anthropology News

OCTOBER 7, 2024

It represents a key example of how Tibetan refugees have established institutionalized, international education that preserves, advances, and shares Buddhist culture and philosophy. However, among community members, the relevance of linguistic diversity to the continuity of Tibetan Buddhist culture is a topic of considerable debate.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Uncharted doesn’t stand alone in the narrative it serves, but it is a notable entry in a long line of pulp fictions that treat tangible cultural heritage as objects that can be removed from their context with no change in significance. Shambhala, for example, originally exists in a context that reinforces Buddhist values and teachings.

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Sapiens

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

I leave for class early, saving enough time to sit outside by the anthropology building and watch people go by. Does someone teach them to start conversations like this? But I still feel a kinship to all Native people, and the conflating of our cultures makes everything feel personal, for better or worse. Not aloud, of course.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 19, 2024

Issued: January 19, 2024 Response deadline: February 2, 2024 Pitch responses: February 7, 2024 First drafts due: February 21, 2024 For our second issue of 2024, Anthropology News invites you to explore the anatomy of deception and dissect the truths and untruths that form our understanding of reality. What forms do these deceptions take?

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

The walls, adorned with posters showcasing different languages and cultures, reflect the richness of the tapestry of diverse worlds and ways of being that fill the room. The sound bowl and its owner teach us the power of holding on, of moving through moments of despair to the potential of the next.

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Anthropology News

JUNE 18, 2024

Proponents point to its potential to personalize learning and foster innovative teaching approaches. What does the stereotype tell us about educational culture and structure more broadly? The Spider in the Room Questions about teaching and learning are not new, especially in anthropology. Is this fair? Is it right?

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2023

This story also appeared in The Washington Post As an adjunct faculty member at a Canadian university, Jassim has four teaching assistants to help him grade assignments and answer questions. He has a multiyear contract and can typically pick the subjects that he teaches. He makes the equivalent of about $7,000 per course, per term.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 7, 2024

My name is Chip Colwell, a SAPIENS anthropology magazine, part of Wenner-Gren Foundation. I’m an archaeologist anthropologist who started writing in the anthropology publication about 15 years ago and had the seed idea of what would become SAPIENS and brought it to fruition. That topically we are focusing on anthropology.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2022

If a student already knew the material before taking the class and got that A, “they didn’t learn anything,” said Greene, who also is director of the university’s Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning. historians teaching them in their fancy high schools.”. By comparison, she said, higher-income classmates “had Ph.D.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

It’s a practice that has gone on for years, but teaching experts say it intensified during pandemic campus shut-downs, when students were looking for ways to connect. Students increasingly turn to private systems to create online groups around individual college classes.

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Anthropology News

APRIL 17, 2024

He then served in the US Army in for two years (1952–54) and as a government researcher in Germany before earning a PhD in cultural anthropology in 1961 from the University of London, with certificates in African and Islamic law and Swahili at the School of African and Oriental Studies (SOAS) in 1958.

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