‘Mellencamp’s classroom tape’
John Mellencamp is one of my favorite rock singers. I find it fascinating how he depicts urban life. It is well-known that in his songs he delivers sharp…
Tag: education
“The teacher next door”
I was giving history lessons to 10th graders, and once I had managed having a Socratic circle about the qualifications of a good leader. Our key example was…
Hartwick Anthropology Courses – Fall 2015
Teaching Hartwick Anthropology courses is what launched and sustains Living Anthropologically. For more information, visit the Hartwick Anthropology webpage and sign up for some great fall 2015 Hartwi…
Cheating all around
The correct and inevitable guilty verdict in the sad case of the “Atlanta Cheating Scandal” is a reminder that the current system of high-stakes testing drives all particip…
Annual Review of Anthropology, Climate Change, Anthropocene
This is a guest post by Sean Seary, a Hartwick College graduate interested in understanding human interactions with biological and social environments, and how anthropology can use that…
Graduate Resilience
the culture of post-graduate research at UWI can be described as tough in terms of adequate supervision yet the students themselves demonstrate resilience in this tough working environment…
The Kids are more than all right
Both are seventeen. They are too young to vote in places like the US. But we need more of them! Malala! All around the world people know this…
Art Connects
The power of art, dance and song in empowering the education and social connection of young Trinidadians… How much do we really know about the youth of Trinidad…
Teaching Cultural Anthropology (via a quote from Tim Ingold, Making, 2013:13)
Fall 2014, teaching Cultural Anthropology. The Hartwick College Anthropology format for teaching cultural anthropology is to begin with a four-fields Introduction to Anthropology, followed by mid-leve…
School Is War, Prison, Factory, Machine, Business, Game, Life….And Other Metaphors: recommending Permaculture
If metaphors organize our thinking and if there is no genuinely neutral way of speaking about anything, then it is worth looking into the dominant metaphors used. School is a domai…
“The Language Gap”: Liberal Guilt Creates Another Not-So-Magic Bullet
Why are people poor? Why do children of the poor not thrive? The latest explanation for why children coming from disadvantaged households do not rise in this land…
Introduction to Anthropology – 2014 – Entangling the Biological
Update: See the 2015 Introduction to Anthropology for more thoughts on this course and how the 2014 books worked. For spring 2014, another round of Introduction to Anthropology–another…
Anthropology Blogs 2014
Update 2015: This is the archive page for 2014 Anthropology Blogs. Click Anthropology Blogs 2015 for a current list and see also the Anthropology Blogs 2013 and 2012…
The genesis of a folk revival
David Dunaway said that “The FBI persued Pete Seeger to the point where he couldn’t get a job. The only people he could sing for were kids, because…
The genesis of a folk revival
David Dunaway said that “The FBI persued Pete Seeger to the point where he couldn’t get a job. The only people he could sing for were kids, because…
The genesis of a folk revival
David Dunaway said that “The FBI persued Pete Seeger to the point where he couldn’t get a job. The only people he could sing for were kids, because…
The genesis of a folk revival
David Dunaway said that “The FBI persued Pete Seeger to the point where he couldn’t get a job. The only people he could sing for were kids, because…
Cultural Anthropology 2013: Human Nature & Public Debates
It was a great honor and privilege to be invited to deliver the Cultural Anthropology overview for the Five Fields Update sponsored by the Society for Anthropology in…
AAA 2013 Annual Meetings Chicago – Reader Guide #aaa2013
The 2013 Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association are November 20-24 in Chicago. Whether you are going or are just interested in anthropology, take a look at…
Clickthrough Anthropology Blogs – October 2013
I keep all the Anthropology Blogs 2013 in a big Feedly subscription. Got behind and scrolled through over 400 articles in the last few weeks. These are the…
Gender segregation and the campus
This article first appeared in the Australian newspaper, Wednesday 7. August 2013 I am currently revising an article about my work in Malaysia with what can be described…
Yugoslav reflections
In her recently opened exhibition “Refleksije vremena 1945.-1955.“, curator Jasmine Bavoljak uses more than 300 art works, everyday objects, films, photos and documents to create an image of…
Yugoslav reflections
In her recently opened exhibition “Refleksije vremena 1945.-1955.“, curator Jasmine Bavoljak uses more than 300 art works, everyday objects, films, photos and documents to create an image of…
Yugoslav reflections
In her recently opened exhibition “Refleksije vremena 1945.-1955.“, curator Jasmine Bavoljak uses more than 300 art works, everyday objects, films, photos and documents to create an image of…