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Education is arguably the central arena where the discipline of anthropology is reproduced, challenged, and renewed. This volume examines how anthropology is taught and transformed in diverse institutional and socio-political contexts worldwide. Covering themes such as multimodal teaching, research-led learning, and disciplinary boundaries, the book offers new insights into the changing role of teaching within anthropology. This book compiles ethnographically grounded case studies to explore how educators respond to technological advancements, neoliberal influences, and calls for decolonising pedagogy. By highlighting content-specific strategies and comparative reflection, this study views anthropological education as a vibrant and critical space where anthropology is reimagined and revitalised.
“This is a highly valuable collection which is likely to inspire many teachers of anthropology to review their own pedagogical practices and to reflect on how they themselves might do things differently – and better!” • Robert Gibb, University of Glasgow
Lorenzo Cañás Bottos is Professor of Social Anthropology at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). He is the author of Old Colony Mennonites in Argentina and Bolivia: Nation Making, Religious Conflict and Imagination of the Future (Brill, 2008), Christenvolk: Historia y Etnografía de una Colonia Menonita (Antropofagia, 2005) and co-editor of Political Transformation and National Identity Change (Routledge, 2008).
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Introduction: Educating Anthropologists and Teaching Anthropology
Lorenzo Cañás Bottos, Jakob Krause-Jensen and Ioannis Manos
Part I: Global Contexts: Localising Anthropology
Chapter 1. Becoming a Social Anthropologist in South-East Mexico: A Personal Account from Chiapas
José Luis Escalona Victoria
Chapter 2. Canon Recreation in Teaching and Learning Anthropology in Brazil
Guillermo Vega Sanabria
Chapter 3. Objects and Producers of Knowledge: Is It Possible to Make a Transition from One to the Other?
Subhadra Mitra Channa
Chapter 4. Exporting, Appropriating and Reorienting the Canon: The Founding of Sociocultural Anthropology in Estonia
Lorenzo Cañás Bottos
Part II: Contested Spaces: Beyond Disciplinary Boundaries
Chapter 5. Making the Familiar Strange: Teaching Organisational Anthropology to Working Professionals in Denmark
Jakob Krause-Jensen
Chapter 6. An Emergency Toolkit for Non-Anthropologists: Teaching Anthropology at an Interdisciplinary Educational Environment in Globalising South Korea
Seung-Mi Han
Chapter 7. Teaching Ethnography in Greece: Engaged Practice and Rethinking the Discipline
Ioannis Manos
Chapter 8. Challenges and Potentials of Teaching College Anthropology in Twenty-First-Century Morocco
Kamal Feriali
Part III: Multimodal Engagements: Expanding Anthropological Pedagogies
Chapter 9. Drawing Futures for a Drawing Education in Anthropology: The Experiences of the LABareDA (Drawing and Anthropology Lab)
Aina Azevedo, Tatiana Lotierzo, Jeferson Carvalho da Silva and Katianne de Sousa Almeida
Chapter 10. Person-Centred and Existential Approaches to Anthropology
John Loewenthal
Chapter 11. Digital Dialogues: Exploring ChatGPT and AI Chatbots in Anthropological Education
Mark Friis Hau
Chapter 12. Anthropology as Counter-Attack: Rethinking Brazil through Teaching and Learning in Times of Pandemic
Leonardo Carbonieri Campoy
Afterword
David Mills
Index