Flipping Anthropology
Next to MOOCs, the most popular term for transforming education in 2012 was the term “flipped classroom.” While no one completely agrees on the specifics, the term generally means that an instructor...
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The Book Price Enigma
If you read an article about textbooks, chances are it will mention one (if not all) of the following words: cost, editions, margins, expensive, profits, rising, up, sticker shock, inflation. And if...
View ArticleCat’s Cradles, Diamond Jenness, and a Non-Traditional Approach to Writing a...
I don’t always teach a four-field anthropology course, but when I do I start somewhere in the first class by saying that anthropology involves ALL: all times (we dig deeper than historians, who don’t...
View ArticleWe’re celebrating our first anniversary!
One year ago we launched the Teaching Culture blog at the American Anthropological Association meetings in San Francisco. Despite getting off to a bit of a slow start, we’ve really picked up speed,...
View ArticleFlipping Anthropology: Take Two
It wouldn’t be right to close out the year without somehow addressing / acknowledging / assessing the huge amount of energy and attention that was given over in 2013 to discussions of flipped learning...
View ArticleAnnouncing a New Anthropology Book Series
Despite a stubborn polar vortex that just doesn’t want to go away, we’re focused on spring and the renewal it promises. So it seems an auspicious time to formally launch our new series designed for...
View ArticleGetting Real and Making it Relevant: Teaching Introductory Anthropology
In my blog posts earlier this week, I’ve emphasized taking an approach to teaching anthropology, and in particular Introduction to Anthropology, as a truly extraordinary opportunity that we should not...
View ArticleAssigned Readings: Strategies and Ponderings
To mark the beginning of the fall semester at most US colleges and universities, we would like to return to our series of blog postings by the Anthropology Teaching Forum (ATF) at the University of...
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A History of Anthropological Theory
To mark the publication of the fifth editions of their enormously successful texts, A History of Anthropological Theory and Readings for a History of Anthropological Theory, we asked authors Paul A....
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Eating Culture: An Anthropological Guide to Food, Second Edition
Feast on this! We have just published a gorgeous new edition of Eating Culture: An Anthropological Guide to Food, with a full-colour interior and a range of new features for students and instructors....
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What Students Deserve in a Textbook
With the recent release of Through the Lens of Cultural Anthropology, we asked author Laura Tubelle de González to talk about her new textbook, and her hopes for its use in the classroom. Here,...
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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 Series) to talk about Jain’s new...
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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 debate important issues in their field. At UTP, we are...
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