Teaching Anthropology
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This course worked well in many ways. I used the Thursday lecture slot to do unlectures - getting students to practice things more actively, from kinship charts, to reading and discussing a short article, to learning how to talk to Star... more
Social movements are a part of the curriculum of Anthropology and Sociology in higher education institutions in India. Traditionally, these courses are taught via snippets of social movements accompanied by theoretical texts and there is... more
Ορφανίδης, Γ. (2021). Στο: Ε. Κανταρτζή, Γ. Παπαδημητρίου, Χ. Κωσταρής (Επιμ.). Πρακτικά 5ου Πανελλήνιου Συνεδρίου «Εκπαίδευση στον 21ο αιώνα: Ανάπτυξη της κριτικής σκέψης, της δημιουργικότητας και της καινοτομίας» (Τόμος Δ΄) (Αθήνα,... more
Course syllabus for a second-year course in psychological anthropology with a general student base (many psychology majors, but also a wide variety). Draws on my own interest in phenomenology, neuroanthropology, anthropology of the... more
The 2014 version of my first-year course in human evolution and diversity -- note: it's taught in a department that's predominantly social, cultural, developmental and applied anthropology, not biological anthropology.
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Volume VIII, no. 1 (2016): Special Issue on The Ethics of Anthropology in Emergencies
(ISSN: 2040-1876)
Volume VIII, no. 1 (2016): Special Issue on The Ethics of Anthropology in Emergencies
(ISSN: 2040-1876)
directions in brief for Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, Fall 2015
What is ethnography and how does one write it? In this seminar, we will focus on ethnographic writing in anthropology as both an historical and contemporary practice. What makes a piece of writing ethnographic? Is it the content, the... more
Ethnography is becoming an increasingly popular research methodology used across a number of disciplines. Typically, teaching students how to write an ethnography, much less how to undertake “fieldwork” (or the ethnographic research upon... more
Syllabus for a summer course in the anthropology of Christianity.
This article examines the potential and limitations of Megan Boler's ‘pedagogy of discomfort’ in a post-apartheid yet heavily racialised South Africa. Taking an ‘ethnographic sensibility’ to anthropological teaching, this paper sketches... more
Fordham University, Rose Hill | Fall 2015
In this article, I offer an autobiographical account of teaching musical ethnography in an ethnomusicology classroom. My reflections derive from a variety of modules that are offered as part of undergraduate music programmes and that... more
Syllabus for small liberal arts college. Course capped at 30 students.
For many public institutions, ‘doing diversity’ exists as a performative act; a dance choreographed through acts of policy espousing a laudable song based on equality. The reality is somewhat different when it comes to implementation, as... more
Course Rationale The question of what it means to be human has been at the core of anthropology for over two centuries, and it remains as pressing now as it ever was. This course introduces students to some classic attempts at addressing... more
Here we open up the special issue with an introduction to the topic of decolonizing anthropology through the consideration of the emotionality of race, racism, and whiteness within the classroom and the discipline. Focusing on the... more
This paper argues that we should embrace the potential to engage by intentionally exploring our discipline’s controversies, as controversies bring anthropology to life in a way that humanises those anthropologists we study. If we simply... more
This article deals with the teaching of medical anthropology and research methodology under the newly reintroduced semester system at Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal. It mainly consists of my experience of teaching anthropology... more
Transformative ethnography is a method of learning to cross cultures through an embodied, experiential, and reflective practice. I have developed this method over fifteen years of anthropological fieldwork and reflection. This methodology... more
Course Description Through a survey of writings in anthropology, philosophy and social theory this course poses a range of questions concerning self, subjectivity and personhood. For instance, how are persons distinguished from... more
Course Description Socio-cultural and linguistic anthropology are two of the four major sub-disciplines of American anthropology, which also includes biological anthropology and archeology. The central claims made by these two... more
Through the comparative study of different cultures, anthropology explores the most fundamental questions about what it means to be human. Drawing upon eHRAF World Cultures and eHRAF Archaeology, this introductory course encourages... more
Ethnography is becoming an increasingly popular research methodology used across a number of disciplines. Typically, teaching students how to write an ethnography, much less how to undertake "fieldwork" (or the ethnographic research upon... more
Not only does Mayfield's Quick View Guide to the Internet for Students of Anthropology help Internet researchers effectively find the information they want, but it also describes how to evaluate the information's reliability. The guide... more
Se presenta la base de datos, conteniendo información recolectada a través de entrevistas estructuradas, de estudiantes a cargo de proyectos de investigación, en la División de Ciencias Sociales, Economicas y Administrativas de la UQROO... more
Although teaching anthropology in Turkey is not without its challenges, there are also reasons to be hopeful. To explain these adequately, however, we first need to provide background information. Thus, the article presents a brief... more
What are the differences across cultures, social practices and belief systems? Despite all the differences that we learn about people from other parts of the world, what are the similarities that we all share as human beings? This course... more
Syllabus for undergraduate course in anthropology and human rights. The course is an elective offered every alternate year at Macquarie University.
This paper discusses how students may be involved in a fieldwork learning process through supervised participating in the fieldwork setting of their supervisor. I focus on the issues associated with introducing undergraduate students to... more
This paper focusses on socio-economic class structures, as they relate to the study and practice of anthropology. More specifically, it discusses the ways that working-class or financially precarious anthropologists (students, researchers... more
On a far distant moon in the far future technological civilization has reached its final limits. A race of hunter gatherers is facing the onslaught of human technology. Who is there to save them from the ghastly destruction of... more
RESUMEN-Movimientos Irreverentes: elementos de Butoh para la enseñanza e investigación antropológicas-En este artículo se explora cómo algunas herramientas del Butoh y técnicas afines pueden constituirse en dispositivos buenos para... more
Cinema can have great impact on how students understand reality, filter, and process information, and how they respond to teaching in class. Finding a way to use film and critically embed it in our teaching methods, can create a more... more
Course Description Socio-cultural and linguistic anthropology are two of the four major sub-disciplines of American anthropology, which also includes biological anthropology and archeology. The central claim made by these two... more
Since the 1980s physiotherapy has shifted concerns towards cultural, economic, philosophical, political and social questions, and more flexible ways of speaking about and practicing physiotherapy. In response to both global shifts and... more
In this essay, I describe an incident stemming from a field-based ethnographic exercise I utilize in one of the courses which I have designed and which I regularly teach. In my estimation, the contours of the incident I describe here... more