Strategies in Teaching Anthropology
Pearson (Hersteller)
978-0-205-71123-9 (ISBN)
This text provides a wide array of associated learning outcomes and student activities. In addition, it is a valuable single-source compendium of strategies and teaching “tricks of the trade” from a group of seasoned teaching anthropologists—-working in a variety of teaching settings-—who share their pedagogical techniques, knowledge, and observations.
Focused on the applied, “how to do it” side of teaching, this text is designed to fill the gap between students who are taking an anthropology class for the first time, and instructors who know their subject matter in depth. It helps professors who are not sure how to present anthropological subject matter and processes to their students in a way that will capture and relay their own excitement with the subject.
Patricia Rice has taught anthropology for 40 years at West Virginia University where she is an Eberly Distinguished Professor. She has received numerous teaching awards: the American Anthropological Association/Oxford award for Undergraduate Teaching (1998), several West Virginia University Foundation teaching awards, and the Case/Carnegie Professor of the Year for the state of West Virginia (1991). Professor Rice was educated at Ohio State University and the Institute of Archaeology, University College London, and her early field work and publications focused on various aspects of prehistoric art. She currently has several text books with Pearson and has co-edited the six volumes of Strategies in Teaching Anthropology with Pearson. With the other two coeditors of this series, she has conducted Teaching Workshops for the AAA since 2000. She co-edited The Teaching of Anthropology: Problems, Issues, and Decisions (Mayfield 1997) that was based on the American Anthropological Association’s Task Force on teaching, co-edited The Joys of Teaching Anthropology (2007) for McGraw Hill, and co-edits the journal General Anthropology. David McCurdy has been teaching Anthropology at Macalester College since 1966. He has been chair of the department for extended periods since 1969. Professor McCurdy has received numerous teaching awards. He was the first recipient of the American Anthropological Association / Mayfield Award for Undergraduate Teaching (1997). He was also the recipient of the Macalester Distinguished Teaching Award (1995). Indeed he was made the subject of an article in 1977 by Change Magazine for innovative teaching in anthropology, Change, Special Report on Innovative Teaching, No. 6, 1977. Professor McCurdy completed his undergraduate work at Cornell University and received his B.A. in 1957. He finished his Masters in Anthropology from Stanford University in 1959. In 1964, he completed his Ph.D. in Anthropology from Cornell Univeristy. Currently Professor McCurdy’s interests in anthropology include ethnographic research, cognitive anthropology, applied anthropology as well as comparative religion in the United States & South Asia. His research to date consists of a major ethnography (1961-1963), then restudy (1985, 1991, 1994) of a Bhil tribal community in Rajasthan, India. He has also conducted a cross-cultural study of spirit possession (1966-1967). His ethnographic studies has encompassed corporate managers (1983), stockbrokers (1980), Jehovah witnesses (1973), as well as members of an environment movement (1968-1969). He has also performed continued ethnography (1988-1999) on a national motocycle association.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contributors
Editor’s Preface
Annotated Index by Topic, Learning Outcomes, and Student Activities
Forward by Conrad P. Kottak
Introduction by Yolanda T. Moses
Part 1: General
“Listening to Each Other: Quote Cards” (Peter Wogan)
Commercial Films (Movies) As Effective Instructional Aids
in Anthropology and Beyond (Lorenzo Covarrubias)
Using Ted Talks in Anthropology Courses (Bruce M. Rowe)
First Day Demographics (Karen Dalke)
The use of Essays: Developing Critical Thinking Skills Outside of the Classroom to
Promote a Long-Term Understanding of Anthropological Terminology
(Jessica Einhorn)
Part II: Archaeology
The Artifact Game: A Warm-Up Exercise For Archaeology (Lynne Miller)
Comparing Archaeological Sampling Strategies in an Introductory Classroom
(Jane Eva Baxter)
The “End Game:” Teaching the Collapse of Complex Societies
(James L. Fitzsimmons)
Part III: Bioanthropology
The Candy Gene Pool (Lori Barkley)
What’s So Special About Homo erectus? Teaching Human Origins to a Young
Audience (Louise Tokarsky-Unda)
Human Variation: Data Collection and Analysis (Patricia C. Rice)
Zoo Teaching Strategy (Barbara J. King)
Using Star Trek to Explore Human Origin Models and Human Variation
(Daryl G. Frazetti)
Using Experimental History of Science in Teaching Biological Anthropology
(Goran Štrkalj)
Teaching Evolution (Mark Cohen)
SlurpeeTM, Silly PuttyTM, and the LegoTM Killer: The Anatomy of a Crime Scene
(Keith P. Jacobi)
Part IV: Cultural Anthropology
“Nacirema” and “Ah-Ha Moments” (Peter Wogan)
Economic Monopoly (Pete Brown)
Teaching Ethics in Introductory Anthropology Courses (Amanda Paskey and
Anastasia Panagakos)
Myth or Legend: You Decide (Margaret A. Karnyski)
Opening Up Mic Night: Using Karaoke to Teach Gender (Andrea Freidus and
Linda Whiteford)
Is Cultural Evolutionism Ethnocentric? Hands-On Introduction to
Guttman Scaling (Robert Bates Graber)
Worth a Thousand Words? Studying Images on the Covers of Introductory
Cultural Anthropology Texts (Joyce D. Hammond)
Using Wikis in Anthropology Courses (Mark Moritz)
Tracking Scripts: “Mother’s Little Helper” and the Value of “Old” Anthropology
(Michael Oldani)
Demonstrating Balanced Reciprocity and Fairness (Alexander H. Bolyanatz)
Friends and Relatives: Using Incest to Make Kinship Memorable
(Robert Fletcher)
Kula Ring Review Session (Eric Thompson)
From Sensitivity to Intelligence: A Test of Cultural Constructs
(Richard Robbins)
Stratified Monopoly and Social Inequality (Deb Rotman and Mona Danner)
Teaching Authenticity (Scott A. Lukas)
Like a Fish in Water: Helping Students Identify the Role of Culture in Their Lives
(Amy Hirshman)
Dobe Ju/’Hoansi Kinship and Marriage Game (Eric Thompson)
Imaging America (Keith V. Bletzer)
Revisiting the Kula: Understanding the Politics of Economic Networks
(Laura C. Zanotti and Ismael Vaccaro)
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 7.12.2010 |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-205-71123-5 / 0205711235 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-205-71123-9 / 9780205711239 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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