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Anthropology – Understanding – Possibility
These blog-posts concern anthropology courses and the teaching of anthropology. Living Anthropologically began as an attempt to take classroom knowledge and apply it to a more public forum. This attempt especially applies to Introduction-to-Anthropology. My current favorite textbook is the 5th edition of Anthropology: What Does it Mean to be Human? To follow along with this course, see Intro to Anthro 2021.
For fall 2021, I am scheduled to teach a first-year seminar titled Upstate Latinx. For that course I am using Latina/o Studies by Ronald Mize. I will also be teaching Cultural Anthropology. I am excited to try out the second edition of Introducing Anthropology: What makes us human?
The page dedicated to Anthropology Textbooks and Courses is particularly important, as that is the place where the anthropology courses are cataloged.
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Introduction to Anthropology with “What Does it Mean to be Human?”; “Labor and Legality”; and “Applying Anthropology.” Biological, Archaeology, Culture.
It’s a terrible pun, but if we spend Krugman’s “Money for Nothing” the wrong way, we’ll be in Dire Straits when it comes to climate change.
Updated sources for teaching race anthropologically. Race is a social construction, but we need to understand that racism is what makes race salient.
For a four-field introductory course, I reviewed the Anthropology Second Edition: Lavenda & Schultz, What Does It Mean to Be Human?
The Hartwick Archaeology Field School exemplifies a truly “grounded campus”: Experiential learning draws on local resources at Pine Lake.
Anthropology excels at student learning outcomes assessment, but with awareness of the gap between assessment ideals and reality.
A tax increase preserves home values, enhances reputation for education, keeps kids walking to school, maintains jobs, helps planning.
Anthropology of Latin America and the Caribbean is less about “peoples and cultures” and more about processes at work across the Americas.
The undergraduate anthropology major is a hidden strength: it is where the anthropological message is potentially the most world-changing.
Re-listening to R.E.M.’s “Losing My Religion” as a professor teaching evolution in front of a classroom: Oh no I’ve said too much / I haven’t said enough.
In this anthropology classroom activity, undergraduate anthropology majors suggest five classic articles that non-majors should read.
This post on Anthropology 101 in 2011 was a call to action for introductory courses to address the big themes of Human Nature, Race, & Evolution.