By Laura Haapio-Kirk and Jennifer Cearns, RAI Leach Fellows in Public Anthropology. When we first applied to be public anthropology fellows for the RAI back in 2019 little did we know of the year to […]

by: Olivia Barnett-Naghshineh https://www.oliviabarnettnaghshineh.com/ Anthropology as a discipline has an almost inherent assumption that our methodology makes every experience or social phenomena potentially knowable through sufficient participating, observing and long-term interactions. As a woman of mixed Iranian […]

As the incoming editors of Teaching Anthropology we’d like to say hello and give you a sense of our future direction. We want to expand the practical content, sharing resources, experiences and reflections that will directly help others in their teaching. Our vision for Teaching Anthropology, and its online platform, is that it becomes both a record of the evolution of anthropological teaching and a go to hub for pedagogical inspiration. […]

by: Heather Battles, University of Auckland In my article for Teaching Anthropology (Battles, 2020), I used a case study of my experience with a cemetery project in an anthropological demography course in 2016, as an example of a hybrid approach aimed getting the benefits of project-based and service learning in […]

by: Jolynna Sinanan, University of Sydney We all agree that participant observation, ‘hanging out’, ‘being there’ and ‘being in the field’ is essential to conducting fieldwork, so as fieldwork plans have been dashed during this pandemic, it is understandable to feel deflated. There has been renewed interest in digital […]

BY: KAELIANA SMOKE, Undergraduate Student, University of Toronto Mississauga As an Indigenous scholar, studying anthropology in Canada at the University of Toronto Mississauga, I understand better than others that there are long standing issues between the field of anthropology and Indigenous People of Turtle Island. […]