Constructive Anthropology
BY: Benjamin Gibbons, MA, Oxford University The flicker of a grimace is the only sign my student will give that we’ve touched a nerve. […]
Articles by Teaching Anthropology
Writing from the Heart: Teaching Literary Anthropology
Ilina Jakimovska, PhD is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology Coming from a family of writers, I grew up surrounded by […]
A Prescient Discipline in the Past, a Capacious Discipline for the Future
BY: Durba Chattaraj, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Writing, Ashoka University I’ll wager that as anthropologists many of us have an anthro-crush — that scholar […]
Facing The Frontier: Long-time teaching assistant to first-time (reluctant) instructor
BY: Sarah Ranlett, PhD Candidate, University of Toronto In the course of pursuing a doctorate (as I currently am), teaching has never sparked in me, […]
Teaching and Learning Anthropology in Eastern and Southeastern Europe
Ioannis Manos, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece Social anthropology is a recently established and developed […]
Liminality in the Classroom
Madeleine Mant, Banting Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Archaeology, Memorial University of Newfoundland Such is the reality of anthropological education that one must be prepared to […]
Kanraxël – The Confluence of Agnack
In the current context of ever-progressing globalisation and urbanization, multiculturalism is often seen as a problematic phenomenon belonging to the modern world. However, linguistic and […]
Librarian and Anthropology Faculty Collaborations to Bolster Student Learning
BY: Juliann Coulture Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Librarian University of Colorado Boulder Take a moment to consider an assignment you often use in your courses. What […]
How do we introduce students to thinking anthropologically?
Artour Mitski, Social Studies and Languages of East and Southeast Asia, Doctoral Researcher,School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London University of London First signs […]
Accent profiling, power imbalances and access to Higher Education: A case for the return of anthropology to schools
Teaching anthropology in schools is promoted as a path for British pupils to face the world they live in from culturally contextualized perspectives. However, this […]