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Teaching Anthropology
FEBRUARY 3, 2025
For anyone who has been teaching anthropology over the last two years, the latter will be of no surprise to you. (As 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. Chloe Beckett, M.A.,
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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Teaching Anthropology
FEBRUARY 1, 2023
In a 1934 lecture on techniques of the body, for example, Marcel Mauss argued that studies of movement should attend concomitantly to biological, sociological and psychological facets. Human hygiene is taken as an example. This particular activity comes on the heels of a discussion of cultural universals in comparative perspective.
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.
Anthropology for Beginners
NOVEMBER 13, 2022
DECENTRALISATION and ANTHROPOLOGY Decentralisation is the process of dispersing decision-making governance closer to the people and/or citizen. It includes the dispersal of administration or governance in sectors or areas like engineering, management science, political science, political economy, sociology and economics.
Anthropology 365
MARCH 31, 2025
I had taken a couple of courses in anthropology and was excited by the fact that doing anthropology allowed me to engage in all of my interests: biology, conservation, ecology, and how humans fit in the world. I promised her that I would go back to school and complete my bachelor’s degree.
Anthropology for Beginners
MAY 17, 2021
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Urban Ecology Urban ecology, pioneered by Chicago sociologists in the 1920s, was central to the development of human ecology. Indeed the two terms are often used interchangeably. Few sociologists now accept the biologically derived assumptions underlying urban ecology.
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