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Teaching Syndemics

Teaching Anthropology

MerrillSinger, PhD, University of Connecticut The COVID-19 pandemic brought enhanced global attention to the anthropological concept of syndemics. As medical anthropologist Lance Gravlee observed, syndemics has achieved a broader reach than most anthropological ideas. It is a syndemic. Why teach syndemics?

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Bertrand Russell’s 10 Essential Rules Of Critical Thinking

TeachThought

Psychology, Neurology, and even Anthropology all have had a louder voice in ‘education,’ which may explain why critical thinking seems to be so often missing from most school and curriculum design. This, to a degree, reduces the function of pure philosophy.

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Learning How to Wash Your Hands in Anthropology Class 

Teaching Anthropology

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. Anthropologists and others have long been drawn to the pragmatics and theoretics of hygiene.

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What Does Blended Learning Look Like in an AP Class?

Catlin Tucker

In this guest post, Cori Schwarzrock shares her experience using blended learning models in her AP psychology course. I teach AP Psychology, blended and traditional, at a high school in the northwest suburbs of Chicago. Cori Schwarzrock is an AP Psychology teacher at Cary-Grove High School in Cary, Il. Not sure where to start?

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Society - A preliminary idea

Anthropology for Beginners

Approaches: Society has been the central theoretical object of much European anthropology, especially *British social anthropology, so that any history of the theoretical use of the term swiftly becomes a history of anthropological theory.

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A Classroom Research Project with Lasting Meaning

Teaching Anthropology

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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Ethnography and Ethnology

Anthropology for Beginners

The two concepts are often combined in anthropological writings and they have a close and complex historical relationship. As the antiquity of man became established in the mid-nineteenth century and anthropological inquiry began to focus on evolutionary questions, the need for better data became clear.