Teaching Anthropology through Sequential Art (Part II)
By Andrew Gilbert In Part I of this essay, I discussed the design and goals of a new course I had developed on graphic novels in an upper-year…
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Teaching Anthropology through Sequential Art (Part I)
By Andrew Gilbert This short two-part blog post is a set of reflections on the value of teaching with sequential art, the result of a course I recently…
Making #AAACASCA Manageable: The Teaching Culture Top 25
It is that time of year again—November is flying by, and thousands of anthropologists are gathering to share, learn, explore, discuss, and debate important issues in their field.…
Hello from a New Editor
As the fall term draws to a close, and as many of us head to Vancouver for AAA-CASCA, I would like to take a moment to introduce myself…
Interrogating the Concept of Categories – an Interview with Lochlann Jain
Stanford University anthropologist and artist, Lochlann Jain, speaks with Anne Brackenbury (former editor at University of Toronto Press who launched the ethnoGRAPHIC Series) to talk about Jain’s new…
What Students Deserve in a Textbook
With the recent release of Through the Lens of Cultural Anthropology, we asked author Laura Tubelle de González to talk about her new textbook, and her hopes for…
The Last Word(s)
After 11 years at the University of Toronto Press, and over 6 years curating this blog, I’m stepping down, hanging up my hat, moving on (choose what euphemism…
Visualizing Toxic Subjects at the UCI Center for Ethnography
Innovations in Anthropology Series Welcome to the Innovations in Anthropology Series, a blog series devoted to profiling the teaching, production, and dissemination of anthropological knowledge. Wheth…
Collaboration as Innovation: A Brief History of University of Toronto’s Ethnography Lab
Innovations in Anthropology Series Welcome to the Innovations in Anthropology Series, a blog series devoted to profiling the teaching, production, and dissemination of anthropological knowledge. Wheth…
Playing Theory (Part Two)
Innovations in Anthropology Series Welcome to the Innovations in Anthropology Series, a blog series devoted to profiling the teaching, production, and dissemination of anthropological knowledge. Wheth…
Playing Theory (Part One)
Innovations in Anthropology Series Welcome to the Innovations in Anthropology Series, a blog series devoted to profiling the teaching, production, and dissemination of anthropological knowledge. Wheth…
Making #AmAnth18 Manageable: The Teaching Culture Top 30
The 2018 AAA meetings are upon us and we’re looking forward to getting out from this rainy, cold Toronto weather and into some California sun! In keeping with…
Island in the Stream: A discussion with author Michael Lambek on his new release
The Scholarly Publishing program at University of Toronto Press has been producing the Anthropological Horizons series since 1991. The series is home to imaginative, immersive ethnographic works that…
Anthropology Otherwise: Thoughts on a Graphic Novel Experiment – Part 2
This is the second of a two-part blog post by Marie-Eve Carrier Moisan discussing the challenges and potentials of part of transforming ethnographic research into graphic novel form.…
Anthropology Otherwise: Thoughts on a Graphic Novel Experiment
In the first of a two-part blog post, Marie-Eve Carrier-Moisan talks about the challenges of adapting her ethnographic work on sex tourism in Brazil into graphic novel form.…
Teaching & Learning Creative Habits: The Evolution of #archink
With #inktober now in its 10th year, Author Katherine Cook explains the on-going success of the campaign, and discusses the evolution of #archink. As instructors, we often have rather lofty…
A Graphic Conversation: Talking Comics and Scholarship
Anne Brackenbury, Executive Editor at University of Toronto Press, and co-editor of the ethnoGRAPHIC Series, sat down recently with Kendra Boileau, Assistant Director and Editor-in-Chief at Penn State…
An Advance Student Review of Lissa
Reviews of Lissa, the graphic novel launching our new ethnoGRAPHIC series, will start to appear in the next few weeks, including reviews by academics writing for journals, blogs,…
Excerpt: A History of Anthropological Theory
An exciting new feature of the fifth edition of A History of Anthropological Theory, as well as the fifth edition of its companion volume Readings for a History…
A History of Anthropological Theory
To mark the publication of the fifth editions of their enormously successful texts, A History of Anthropological Theory and Readings for a History of Anthropological Theory, we asked authors…
Four Excerpts from a Four-Field Introductory Textbook
In the weeks leading up to the publication of Through the Lens of Anthropology: An Introduction to Human Evolution and Culture by Robert J. Muckle and Laura Tubelle…
Sharing Syllabi: The Anthropology of Superheroes
Jamon Halvaksz, Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), shares the syllabus for his Fall 2015 course, ANT 4843:…
Anthropological Horizons: An Interview with Series Editor Michael Lambek
In addition to all of the work we do in the Higher Education Division of University of Toronto Press to publish materials for undergraduate anthropology students—especially the Teaching…