Living with Darwin & Evolution-Creation Controversy
“Teaching Theories: The Evolution-Creation Controversy” (1982) has long been part of the Applying Anthropology reader. Time for a Living with Darwin update?
Anthropology Courses
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.
The page dedicated to Anthropology Textbooks and Courses is particularly important, as that is the place where the anthropology courses are cataloged.
Course pages include:
- Introduction to Anthropology as a general overview for four-fields anthropology courses.
- Introduction to Anthropology 2018 based on Anthropology: What Does it Mean to be Human? which is still my preferred textbook for an Introduction to Anthropology course.
- Intro to Anthro 2018, a course outline using Anthropology: Asking Questions about Human Origins, Diversity, and Culture
- Cultural Anthropology 2016
- Cultural Ecology 2017
Anthropology on Noble Savages, Napoleon Chagnon
Within weeks of Jared Diamond’s The World Until Yesterday Napoleon Chagnon splashed in with Noble Savages: My Life Among Two Dangerous Tribes — the Yanomamo and the Anthropologists. This page offers a selection of anthropology-oriented reviews and responses. Crucial point is one lesson anthropology has learned: contemporary peoples are not pristine windows onto a primitive … Read more
Childcare, Culture & Power
Meredith Small, “Our Babies, Ourselves” introduces many ways to raise babies, the biocultural of neurologically unfinished infants. But does this elide power?
Financial Aid
Liberal Arts college financial aid programs rapidly approach a crossroads: the best opportunity to prove liberal arts relevance is need-based financial aid.
Best Introduction to Anthropology Syllabus 2012 – Four Fields Anthropology
Update July 2013: Revisited and updated this 2012 Introduction to Anthropology syllabus effort, tracking the links below and now please also see Best Introduction to Anthropology Syllabus – Four Fields 2013. After posting my four fields Introduction to Anthropology syllabus to the American Anthropological Association Teaching Materials Exchange, I’ve updated my Four Fields Textbook Review … Read more
Anthropology: Best Major to Change Your Life
Check out an Anthropology Major! It’s the worst college major for instant pay, but best major to change your life. And Anthropology can change the world.
2013 Introduction to Anthropology – Four Fields
Introduction to Anthropology with “What Does it Mean to be Human?”; “Labor and Legality”; and “Applying Anthropology.” Biological, Archaeology, Culture.
Money for Nothing
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.
Teaching Race
Updated sources for teaching race anthropologically. Race is a social construction, but we need to understand that racism is what makes race salient.
Review: What Does It Mean to Be Human? (2nd edition)
For a four-field introductory course, I reviewed the Anthropology Second Edition: Lavenda & Schultz, What Does It Mean to Be Human?
Grounded Campus
The Hartwick Archaeology Field School exemplifies a truly “grounded campus”: Experiential learning draws on local resources at Pine Lake.
Assessing Anthropology
Anthropology excels at student learning outcomes assessment, but with awareness of the gap between assessment ideals and reality.
School Tax Increases
A tax increase preserves home values, enhances reputation for education, keeps kids walking to school, maintains jobs, helps planning.
Teaching: Latin America & Caribbean 2012
Anthropology of Latin America and the Caribbean is less about “peoples and cultures” and more about processes at work across the Americas.
Anthropology in Florida
The undergraduate anthropology major is a hidden strength: it is where the anthropological message is potentially the most world-changing.
Oh no I’ve said too much
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.
Five Articles from Majors to Non-Majors
In this anthropology classroom activity, undergraduate anthropology majors suggest five classic articles that non-majors should read.
Anthropology 101 in 2011
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.