Anthropology – Understanding – Possibility
The Society for Economic Anthropology invited #AmAnth2018 sessions. Topics included: global adaptation finance, energy economics, moral economies, labor & care work, cycles of economic boom and bust, migration, …the list goes on!
Open Anthropology highlights anthropological research for understanding and teaching about gun violence & the #MarchForOurLives for gun reform
To the question of “What is Anthropology?”: Anthropology is a generous comparative inquiry into the conditions & potentials of human life.
The October 2017 issue of Open Anthropology promotes material linked to the #AmAnth17 meetings, Anthropology Matters (November 29-December 3).
Contemporary Anthropological Theory is a course meant to change how we think. Teaching Trouillot as “Burning Questions” provides relevance for anthropology.
A survey marking the 30 year anniversary of Hartwick Anthropology as an independent department and the retirement of acclaimed archaeologist David Anthony.
Articles on “Music – Anthropology – Life” were free to read from June 2017 to June 2018 on Open Anthropology.
Bonin Bough’s lecture at Hartwick College on “Hackonomy” paralleled themes in Introduction to Anthropology and Cultural Ecology.
Sponsored by the Hardy Chair Lecture Series, a public lecture by Dr. David H. Price: “Tracing Funding, Tracing Impacts: The CIA and Anthropology.”
What Would Sid Do? Reflections on the Sidney Mintz legacy in anthropology. Teaching Introduction to Anthropology as Global History & Interconnection.
In 2016, the Electoral College should have stopped Trump from becoming president. In 2019, blocking Trump depends on impeachment.
In November 2018, we can assemble the “coalition of the diverse” that almost came together in 2016: A racially mixed crowd in the November Rain.
The BDS Movement merits support, but an anthropology boycott of Israeli academic institutions by the AAA is a too easy “take a stand” moment from academe.
4-5 February 2016 at University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill: “Defending Anthropology 101 and the Mega-Class: Relevant Teaching for the 21st Century.”
In the Hartwick College J Term 2016 course, “Peoples & Cultures of Latin America and the Caribbean,” students emerged with a rich array of final projects.
A 2016 book list for teaching Latin America & Caribbean Anthropology attempting to understand common themes in processes occurring across the Americas
As gun violence continues in the United States, this gun control podcast reflects on how anthropology can bring sanity and contribute to political debate.
Designed for students who will make the world a better place – Hartwick Anthropology 2016 course offerings for spring & J Term.
With anthropologists saying many things about culture, is it any wonder the students and the public are confused?
Early episodes of European colonialism, plantation slavery in the Caribbean, and Darwin in Tierra del Fuego are crucial to “How Did Anthropology Begin?”
Please help a recent high school graduate who desperately wants to be an anthropology major but worries about the anthropology major jobs after graduation.
Hartwick Anthropology course offerings for fall 2015. Teaching anthropology is transformative anthropology!
With President Ashraf Ghani of Afghanistan, President Barack Obama of the US, and World Bank President Jim Yong Kim, Anthropology is taking over the world.
While “experiential learning” is the rage in Higher Education, worth remembering that one of the best parts about learning is not having to experience it.
Preview of a 2015 Introduction to Anthropology course using a new 3rd-edition textbook, Anthropology:What Does It Mean to Be Human?