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Call For Papers: Trauma Informed Anthropology

Teaching Anthropology

We also encourage those from cognate disciplines such as sociology, and from researchers using ethnographic methods. This call aims to generate a wide conversation and is open to practitioners wanting to share their approach with teachers, reflections on personal experiences in the class room, as well as full-length academic articles.

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Active learning as a pedagogical strategy to enhance the learning of anthropology

Teaching Anthropology

Anthropology modules appear in programs in three programs I have taught: Archaeology and Anthropology, Human Sciences, and Music. I first trialed active learning strategies while teaching at the University of Oxford, where one of the challenges of teaching anthropology is the diverse background of the students (Bastide, 2012).

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Innovation and the medical gaze

This Is Not a Sociology Blog

2003) The birth of the clinic : an archaeology of medical perception. 2003) The birth of the clinic : an archaeology of medical perception. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Foucault, M. London: Routledge. 1999) The greatest benefit to mankind : a medical history of humanity from Antiquity to the present. London: Routledge.

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Study: The Indo-European language family was born south of the Caucasus

Strange Maps

This is a huge step forward from the mutually exclusive, previous scenarios, towards a more plausible model that integrates archaeological, anthropological, and genetic findings.” Strange Maps #1220 Got a strange map?

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The Aeroroutes of Stuttgart

Anthropology News

Route—a space created from movement—is one of four types of spatial figure in sociology of space (as proposed by Martina Löw and Hubert Knoblauch ). The prefix “aero” comes from the Greek noun “meteoron” and adjective “meteoros”: “meta” means a higher level, while “aoros” means elevated, floating in the air.

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As Humanities Fight for Support, New Journal Aims to Celebrate Their Role in Public Life

ED Surge

That includes, the editors note, anthropology, archaeology, classics, cultural studies, disability studies, ethnic studies, gender studies, history, law, linguistics, literary studies, performing arts, religious studies, philosophy, postcolonial studies, queer studies, psychology, sociology, visual arts, and women's studies.