Critical Pedagogy in Action
What happens when ethnographers of education ask, How can we help? It is close to the end of the fall 2020 semester for college- and school-age students. We…
Author: Chelsea Horton
Critical Pedagogy in Action
What happens when ethnographers of education ask, How can we help? It is close to the end of the fall 2020 semester for college- and school-age students. We…
Critical Pedagogy in Action
What happens when ethnographers of education ask, How can we help? It is close to the end of the fall 2020 semester for college- and school-age students. We…
Generating Queers
An embodied intergenerational pedagogy sheds light on the possibilities of bringing together diverse LGBTQ+ cohorts to strengthen our sense of value and inclusion within a history, lineage, and…
Generating Queers
An embodied intergenerational pedagogy sheds light on the possibilities of bringing together diverse LGBTQ+ cohorts to strengthen our sense of value and inclusion within a history, lineage, and…
Generating Queers
An embodied intergenerational pedagogy sheds light on the possibilities of bringing together diverse LGBTQ+ cohorts to strengthen our sense of value and inclusion within a history, lineage, and…
Government Peace Pedagogy in Colombia
In a bid to counter disinformation surrounding the peace process, the Colombian government embarked on an ambitious public education campaign. But their rational approach was powerless in the…
Interdisciplinary Co-teaching Takes on Wicked Problems
A course about COVID-19 innovates pedagogy to guide students in conceptualizing the pandemic and collaborating to address complex situations. Smack dab in the middle of a virulent pandemic,…
Resisting Psychiatric Temporalities in “Post-Conflict” Colombia
Post-traumatic stress disorder fails to account for the psychosocial issues that arise in the wake of peace. We need nonpathological frameworks to give FARC ex-combatants the support they…
Witnessing Disappearance in China during the Global Pandemic
The landscape of Islam within China has been changing rapidly during the pandemic. Ethnographic fieldwork can map these erasures and disappearances in everyday life. It was an unusually…
Motivation and Apathy in the Time of COVID-19
For many graduate students, the pandemic has postponed fieldwork and changed research plans. How do we keep going and cope with these challenges to our academic careers? …
Sustaining Bilingual Education Amid School Choice Expansion
Students, parents, and educators in Milwaukee continue a tradition of bilingual education activism and resist choice schools’ scaling up of linguistic subtraction. At La Escuela Bilingüe Foster’s (Fo…
Linguistic Anthropology and COVID-19
A post-COVID-19 “return to normal” implies a continuation of the very cultural, linguistic, and economic practices that precipitated the pandemic. Scholars of language and communication must do better…
Studying Historical Artifacts on YouTube
A new community of YouTube creators are using video to give audiences a close-up view of antique garments and accessories. Can they inspire museums to invest in new…
Feminist Hopes for Chile’s Future
Two million Chileans marched for gender equality and democratic reform on International Women’s Day 2020. With the writing of a new constitution now on the horizon, feminist activists…
Call for Pitches: Graphic Ethnography
Image description: A comic book style explosion with the words “graphic ethnography” at the center of it bursts from a back ground of radiating orange stripes. Stars and…
How to Improve Consumer DNA Tests
Direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic tests offer tantalizing yet speculative promises to connect us with our distant past and live a healthier life. Consequently, by February 2019, an estimated 26…
Ten Things Archaeology Tells Us about Neanderthals
Rebecca Wragg Sykes is an archaeologist and author of the critically acclaimed bestseller Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art. An honorary fellow at the University of Liverpool,…
The Racial Thinking behind ALS Diagnosis
Beliefs about which bodies can and cannot develop certain diseases risk rebiologizing race in genomic research and care. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a neurodegenerative disease that typical…
Of Maps, Ancestors, and Genes
How the conceptual heritage of the new and old world pervades today’s racial economy of genetics. On a former occasion I wrote to you at some length…
The Next Piece of Our Big Genetic Puzzle
Around 50,000 years ago, Neanderthals contributed their DNA to modern humans. But the genes also flowed the other way, hundreds of thousands of years before. In 1856, in…
Bovine Bloodlines
Selective breeding for milk and muscle has corroded cattle health and genetic diversity. Heritage breed farmers are pushing back. That old cow out there, she’s 18, and she’s…
Call for Pitches: CARE
Image description: Two red hands grasp one another to form the shape of a heart. iStock/fairywong In Anthropology News 62.3, the “Care” issue, we will tell stories that reveal…
Stars from the AAA Sections
Last year Anthropology News invited sections to help us highlight some of the outstanding people in our discipline and the exciting, impactful work that they do, whether in…