Ancestral Lines: Return to Uiaku
Morning on Ganjiga beach March 2020. I had been in Uiaku for just over a week, but already established a pattern of …
Welcome Back to the Teaching Culture Blog!
After a two-year hiatus, we’re delighted to announce the relaunching of UTP’s Teaching Culture blog. We are mindful of the incredible changes …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Five Years of Teaching Culture
Five years ago this fall we launched an experiment. As an editor at a university press, with an interest in ethnographic methods …
Making #AmAnth17 Manageable: The Teaching Culture Top 30
What would the AAA be without the Teaching Culture Top 30 list? Every year we scour the AAA program and try to …
Q&A: On Illustration, Collaboration, and Anthropology
This month, we launch our first graphic novel and the first book in our new ethnoGRAPHIC series, Lissa: A Story about Medical …
ethnoGRAPHIC: Extending Anthropology’s Reach, One Comic at a Time
Part of my job as an editor is to convince people to write the books I think they should write, not necessarily …
Supporting the Resistance
Well, 2017 has certainly burst out of the gates, with Trump signing executive orders the way a bull wreaks havoc in a …
Post-Election Reds and Blues: Public Anthropology, Millennials, and the Future
It’s a solemn time, even as the sun shines, and even as I sit at my desk here in Toronto, somewhat shielded …
Making #AAA2016 Manageable: The Teaching Culture Top 30
It’s officially November and we all know what that means: #AAA2016 is right around the corner. The panic around getting desks cleared …
2016: Trends in Teaching, Publishing, and Anthropology
2015 was a bit of blur for me. I spent the bulk of the year in a post-concussive haze. Thankfully, our team …
Post #AAA2015
I’m still applying moisturizer three times a day to rehydrate after the arid Denver conditions. It was an energizing, exhausting, and momentous …
Making #AAA2015 Manageable: The Teaching Culture Top 30
It’s that time of year again, when anthropologists start gathering on Twitter, finish writing their papers, and pack their scarves for the …
Announcing ethnoGRAPHIC: A New Series
Graphic Adventures in Anthropology This is the final post in a blog series called Graphic Adventures in Anthropology. For several weeks now, guest …