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 for a four fields Intro-to-Anthropology course is the textbook by Robert Muckle and Laura Tubelle de González, Through the Lens of Anthropology: An Introduction to Human Evolution and Culture. In Spring 2020 I blogged through two modified online courses due to the COVID-19 disruptions: Cultural Ecology 2020 and Introduction to Anthropology 2020.
The page dedicated to Anthropology Textbooks and Courses is particularly important, as that is the place where the anthropology courses are cataloged.
Previous course pages include:
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
Meredith Small, “Our Babies, Ourselves” introduces many ways to raise babies, the biocultural of neurologically unfinished infants. But does this elide power?
Liberal Arts college financial aid programs rapidly approach a crossroads: the best opportunity to prove liberal arts relevance is need-based financial aid.
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
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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.
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