Blog Update and Approaching Youth in Open Anthropology
Been doing some significant blog maintenance, trying to make the site look more like Anthropology 2.015. Finally updated the big list of Anthropology Blogs 2015. Please let me…
Been doing some significant blog maintenance, trying to make the site look more like Anthropology 2.015. Finally updated the big list of Anthropology Blogs 2015. Please let me…
Wenn es denn so einfach wäre … Seit einiger Zeit arbeite ich vermehrt im Bereich der Hochschuldidaktik, in der zentralen Hochschuldidaktik der Universität Marburg. Die verschlungenen Pfade der…
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…
Jason Antrosio, author of the Living Anthropologically blog, wrote a great response to the flurry of neo-liberal detractors who began declaring anthropology as a poor option for university…
For my 2015 Introduction to Anthropology course, I am excited to be getting a first look at the 3rd edition of Anthropology: What Does It Mean to be…
Ich gebe im kommenden Sommersemester 2015 im Fachgebiet Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie der Philipps-Universität Marburg eine Lehrveranstaltung: Leben im ‘Transitbereich’: Die Flüchtlinge der Se…
Modified transcript of discussant comments for panel on Anthropology and Storytelling at the 2014 Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association. Many thanks to Coralynn Davis, Carole McG…
The 2014 Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association were December 2-7 in Washington D.C. and feature a Searchable Program. I was a discussant for Anthropology and Storytelling,…
Blick auf Marburg, Konferenzort der DGV 2015 Die nächste Tagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Völkerkunde (DGV) wird vom 30.09.-03.10.2015 an der Philipps-Universität Marburg stattfinden. Zusammen mi…
Reading Michel-Rolph Trouillot’s final chapter in Global Transformations, “Making Sense: The Fields in which We Work” and reflecting on what I’ve been teaching in Cultural Anth…
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…
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…
Over at my blog-page which attempts to review and integrate anthropology textbooks, got this question from Christopher DeCorse, anthropologist and archaeologist, and co-author with Raymond Scupin of A…
It was an honor and pleasure to be discussant for Margaret Mead and Jared Diamond: Past Publics, Current Engagements, organized by Alex Golub for the 2013 American Anthropological…
I have been busy traveling around the globe to interview several eminent fellow anthropologists about their work and anthropological journeys as well as follow some University of Queensland…
Science and Nature have just published research that supports a hypothesis about Neanderthal-human hybridisation that I published with Professor Roger Valentine Short in 2011. The recent popularity o…
Despite the rich history of innovative methods and techniques employed by documentary filmmakers across a range of genres, there seems to be little awareness or integration of the…
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…
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…
Konflikte auf der Straße in Georgien Im Sommersemester 2014 halte ich für das Zentrum für Konfliktforschung der Philipps-Universität Marburg ein Seminar mit dem Titel Beyond Conflict: Local Realities…
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…
What’s happening with the anthropology of the state? It seemed that in the 1990s, anthropology was breaking from the ethnographic trilogy of one fieldworker, one village, one year,…
Book orders are due for my anthropology course titled “Peoples and Cultures of Latin America.” I checked back to the May 2013 Anthropologists Studying Immigration in the United…
Reading academic literature is a skill that all college and university students must acquire, but as professors, we don’t always think about how that happens. Equally, making usable…