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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. Introduction: Multimodal anthropology and the politics of invention.

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

Anthropology News

Intersectional Anthropology. 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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The Politics and Limits of Aspiration

Anthropology News

As states forgo redistributive policy and embrace marketized economies that commodify education as the morally legitimized means of social mobility, scholars in anthropology and education have turned critical attention to pedagogies of aspiration. These schools often frame their efforts in social justice terms.

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Enrollment and financial crises threaten growing list of academic disciplines

The Hechinger Report

These have included anthropology, philosophy, languages, art, theater, music and women’s and African American studies. Knowledge such as this “ties into everything — not just history, but our current state of racial issues, our current state of social justice and, beyond that, economics,” said one, Cherline Chery, when the lights came up. “It

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Learn more about: “Canadian Indian Residential Schools Data Collection Project”

Political Science Now

She teaches courses on international politics, international law, global justice, global climate policy, gender, human rights and civil war. Current class topics include Sociological Theory, Sociology of Human Sexuality, Social Psychology and Sociology Through Film. Professor Lindbloom completed her M.A.

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Rafael Sánchez Cacheiro

Anthropology News

He obtained his formal education in Caracas, and then California, before moving to the University of Chicago to further his studies in anthropology, ultimately obtaining his doctorate at the University of Amsterdam. Morris ) The post Rafael Sánchez Cacheiro appeared first on Anthropology News. Patricia Spyer and Rosalind C.

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Treasuring Indonesian Culture; From Local Practice to State Political Ritual

Anthropology News

President Jokowi’s second strategy to address polarization was to revitalize the national political philosophy of Pancasila, which consists of five fundamental principles: belief in one God, humanitarianism, national unity, deliberative democracy, and social justice.