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.
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. 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? by Robert Lavenda and Emily Schultz. To follow along with my course, see Intro to Anthro 2021.
The page dedicated to Anthropology Textbooks and Courses is particularly important, as that is the place where the anthropology courses are cataloged.
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 (2012)
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.