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Learning How to Wash Your Hands in Anthropology Class 

February 1, 2023 Teaching Anthropology 0

Anne Schiller, George Mason University  From the outset of the SARS-Covid 19 pandemic, governments and private entities worldwide launched health awareness campaigns that included instruction […]

International Development and Poetic Practice: An Online Classroom Activity

November 18, 2021 Teaching Anthropology 0

Anne Schiller – George Mason University Cultural anthropology courses frequently satisfy world cultures requirements, attracting enrollments from across the university. My 150-seat online introductory course, […]

Teaching Empathy with Anthropology

September 10, 2021 Teaching Anthropology 0

BY: Mitchell Ma, PhD Candidate, University of Toronto Empathy is defined as sharing and understanding others’ emotions. Although the ability probably predated the human species, […]

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

May 8, 2023 Teaching Anthropology 0

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 […]

Call For Papers: Trauma Informed Anthropology

February 27, 2023 Teaching Anthropology 0

Deadline for Abstract Submissions: 2nd April 2023 Special Issue: Trauma-Informed AnthropologyGuest Editor: Dr William Tantam, Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, University of Bristol,United Kingdom ThemeTrauma […]

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Practicing participant observation with a game of Uno

January 23, 2023 Teaching Anthropology 0

By Alexandra Supper, Department of Society Studies, Maastricht University, the Netherlands. In this resource post, I share an exercise I developed to practice participant observation […]

Welcome back to in-person teaching – or is it?

January 13, 2023 Sherry Fukuzawa 0

Sherry Fukuzawa, University of Toronto Mississauga, Toronto Canada My post-COVID in-person lectures seem to have significantly less attendance than my pre-pandemic courses and I am […]

Tractatus Methodologico-Ethnographicus: A Short Introduction to the Anthropological Study of Worlds

April 25, 2022 Teaching Anthropology 0

The Tractatus Methodologico-Ethnographicus: A Short Introduction to the Anthropological Study of Worlds is an open access/creative commons introductory text on ethnography created by Emeritus Professor […]

FisherCoast Exhibition and Study Guide: Coastal Transformations

March 17, 2022 Teaching Anthropology 0

By Natalie Djohari, University of East Anglia. The FisherCoast Online Exhibition is a rich data resource for exploring the impact of coastal transformation on the […]

Finding the ‘Red Thread’: How to Revise an Inherited Course.

February 26, 2022 Teaching Anthropology 0

Most lecturers have experienced inheriting a course to teach, often at short notice or with limited ability to overhaul the structure. Increasing use of short […]

Social and Cultural Anthropology for the 21st Century: Connected Worlds

January 7, 2022 Teaching Anthropology 0

By Marzia Balzani and Niko Besnier. We are delighted to announce the publication of our textbook, designed to introduce anthropology to students who are facing […]

“Hearing Images, Seeing Sounds”: Disturbance as Pedagogy

November 30, 2021 Teaching Anthropology 0

In Issue 11, no 2, Subhashim Goswami from Shiv Nadar University, gives an account of a course he designed to give students an understanding of […]

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