Ethnography as Education, Alone and Otherwise
Ethnographic fieldwork is a unique and life-altering experience. But it is also a trying and complicated experience. Even as someone who is relatively new in the field of…
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AAA Launches Digital Data Management Resources
As part of its commitment to promoting best practices for data management, in September 2016 the AAA published online a set of modules, Bringing Digital Data Management Training into…
So, What is Anthropology Anyway?
How do you engage students who have never heard of anthropology before? In a community college one finds very few students who have already decided to be anthropology…
Undergraduate Intellectual Engagement through Conference Posters
Conference posters are much more interactive and engaging than podium papers. Posters are also less intimidating than papers and, thus, an ideal format for undergraduate students to begin…
Brewing Disaster in Post-Earthquake Nepal
Climate change and global capital compound suffering for local communities. We are taking a short break from walking the narrow, steep paths around the Saipu Village of Ramechhap…
Going Native
A picture may be worth a thousand words, a cartoon even more. Bernard Perley combines his professional training in fine arts, architecture and anthropology with his Native…
The US-Dakota War and Failed Settler Kinship
Before we arrive in Minneapolis for the 2016 AAA Annual Meeting, I share a story that provides formative history, and which may help you understand the storied land…
We’re Looking for Columnists!
We are seeking opinion columnists to write engaging commentary for the Anthropology News website in 2017. Do you want to provide an anthropological perspective on “hot topics” in…
Class is in Session
What can anthropology offer high school students? Two teachers answer the question. Anthropologists across the discipline despair at how little-known the field is, how it’s often confused with…
Going Native
A picture may be worth a thousand words, a cartoon even more. Bernard Perley combines his professional training in fine arts, architecture and anthropology with his…
Skulls, Skeletons and Shakespeare
Osteology “Boot Camp” What can human skeletonized remains reveal about people’s lives? How can you hold a single human bone and use it to reveal age, sex, ethnicity,…
What Do We Want Our Students to Learn?
Learning Outcomes for Anthropology It is one of those odd, dissociative facts that many of us who get PhDs in anthropology spend the majority of our professional time…
Posters as Multimedia Powerhouses
Poster presented at the Society for Visual Anthropology’s 2014 Visual Research Conference. Photo courtesy Jonathan Marion. Posters are visual presentations. They display some combination of text…
Unboxing the Buried Seeds of My Belonging
Latina/o History, Decolonized Pedagogies and the Politics of Inclusion “We, students, deeply internalized the limited exposure and hidden space allotted to vitally important alternative histories on c…
Tensions in Post-Coup-Attempt Turkey
Kurdish participants in politics face concerted challenges, some of their own making. In the days after the failed coup against the Turkish government on July 15, 2016, top…
Designing for People
A new course bridges anthropology and technology teaching to develop design solutions. In this picture, we see a student team “The Nutter Butters” working on their class project.…
Judging Books by Their Cover
Why we must challenge misrepresentations of race and culture on our textbook covers. Is it possible to claim that anthropology no longer exoticizes and creates cultural Others, when…
Why We Post
Taking Anthropology to the World While we should consider all anthropological projects to be of equal importance to our own discipline, studies which focus on topics such as…
Teaching Anthropology in the Sacrifice Zone
How one group of students engages with ethnography and structural inequalities in their home communities. I am driving through the mountains in pouring, relentless rain. Surrounding me is…
Minneapolis is Awesome
William O. Beeman shares some of his favorite things to do in Minneapolis. Minneapolis is one of the most beautiful cities in America along the banks of the…
Bolivia Prioritizes Transgender and Transsexual Human Rights
“People don’t die because they can’t have marriage” On 19 May 2016, the Chamber of Deputies of The Plurinational State of Bolivia passed Law Nº 807—The Gender Identity…
Clothed-Minded Views on Burqinis
In late August, a Muslim woman on a beach in Nice, France was forced to remove her top and was allegedly fined for wearing a burqini, a modest…
Gender and Disaster Beyond Men and Women
Over the past two decades, considerable attention has been given to the multiple interactions between gender and disaster. Yet the study and integration of gender in disaster and…
An Evolutionary Anthropology Master Syllabus
With the Fall Quarter/Semester fast approaching, many of us are scrambling to organize course syllabi. Whatever the specific course you teach, the required reading list likely reflects a carefully…