Sensory walking: teaching methods in motion
BY: Rajko Muršič redni profesor / Prof. In teaching anthropology, it is extremely important for students not to equate ethnographic fieldwork with interviewing, especially if they had to […]
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What is the role of anthropology in accepting different ways of knowing in the Academy?
This time of year always lends itself to reflection, and I can’t help but think back on 2018 as the beginning of a huge learning […]
“What is man?”: art challenging anthropology
BY: Elpida Rikou, PhD In the year 2008-2009 a group of students of the Department of Visual Arts of the Athens School of Fine Arts […]
Talking about race in text and in person: Is hiding behind a screen helpful?
BY: John Loewenthal, Oxford Brookes University It is increasingly acknowledged that many white people find it uncomfortable to talk about race – especially to large […]
TEACHING ANTHROPOLOGY TO CHILDREN IN EVERYDAY LIFE
BY: Barbara Turk Niskač Can you teach anthropology to very young children? Children learn by observation and experience, so anthropology seems like an inevitable and […]
Anthropological detours in Greece during the refugee crisis
BY: Pinelopi Topali In 2015 the “refugee crisis” reached the island, and an interest in migration swept the university. Students were fascinated by these strangers […]
Teaching Complexity, Uncertainty, and Lies: The case of Homo heidelbergensis
BY: Andrew Holmes, PhD Candidate, University of Toronto In most first-year anthropology courses Homo heidelbergensis is described as a widespread hominin species that lived in […]
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. […]
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 […]