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Zombies, Zombies, Everywhere
Our love affair with zombies has lasted at least a decade, if not more (28 Days Later came out in 2002!). And yet it doesn’t seem to grow old. Season 7 of The Walking Dead begins later this month, and...
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Excerpt: A History of Anthropological Theory
An exciting new feature of the fifth edition of A History of Anthropological Theory, as well as the fifth edition of its companion volume Readings for a History of Anthropological Theory, is a...
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Chatting While Waterskiing, Part 2
In this three-part blog series, Erika Hoffmann-Dilloway of Oberlin College reflects on the challenges she has encountered in trying to incorporate drawing into her work as a linguistic anthropologist....
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Chatting While Waterskiing, Part 3: Drawing as an Ethnographic Method
In this three-part blog series, Erika Hoffmann-Dilloway of Oberlin College reflects on the challenges she has encountered in trying to incorporate drawing into her work as a linguistic anthropologist....
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Making #AAA2016 Manageable: The Teaching Culture Top 30
It’s officially November and we all know what that means: #AAA2016 is right around the corner. The panic around getting desks cleared and papers/presentations written comingle with the excitement of...
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Post-Election Reds and Blues: Public Anthropology, Millennials, and the Future
It’s a solemn time, even as the sun shines, and even as I sit at my desk here in Toronto, somewhat shielded from the results of the 2016 election. I’ve been wondering how this could have happened,...
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Supporting the Resistance
Well, 2017 has certainly burst out of the gates, with Trump signing executive orders the way a bull wreaks havoc in a china shop, and the resistance using every tool at its disposal to protect not only...
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Coding Culture: Why Anthropology Students (and Their Instructors) Should...
This is the first in a multi-part blog series in which Katherine Cook shares her experiences integrating digital anthropology into her teaching. From social media and blogging, to writing code and...
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Coding Culture II: Four Hacks to Digitize Your Anthropology Classroom
This is the second post in a multi-part blog series in which Katherine Cook shares her experiences integrating digital anthropology into her teaching. Technology is complicated and expensive, right?...
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Coding Culture III: Four More (Advanced) Hacks for the Digital Anthropology...
This is the third post in a multi-part blog series in which Katherine Cook shares her experiences integrating digital anthropology into her teaching. The applications for digital technology in...
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Anthropology Matters
Author Shirley A. Fedorak discusses the changes to the new edition of Anthropology Matters and how they are grounded in a need to make anthropology relevant to today’s students. My former students at...
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Coding Culture IV: Code-phobia and Making the Most of Fear, Failure, and Tiny...
This is the fourth and final post in a multi-part blog series in which Katherine Cook shares her experiences integrating digital anthropology into her teaching. In the first week of a fourth-year...
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An Advance Student Review of Lissa
Reviews of Lissa, the graphic novel launching our new ethnoGRAPHIC series, will start to appear in the next few weeks, including reviews by academics writing for journals, blogs, and more public venues...
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Q&A: On Illustration, Collaboration, and Anthropology
This month, we launch our first graphic novel and the first book in our new ethnoGRAPHIC series, Lissa: A Story about Medical Promise, Friendship, and Revolution. This project is the result of a...
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Making #AmAnth17 Manageable: The Teaching Culture Top 30
What would the AAA be without the Teaching Culture Top 30 list? Every year we scour the AAA program and try to winnow it down to a short list of recommended sessions. We acknowledge it’s an almost...
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Five Years of Teaching Culture
Five years ago this fall we launched an experiment. As an editor at a university press, with an interest in ethnographic methods and a mandate for publishing teaching-oriented texts, I wanted to...
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Adventures in Blogging: Bringing Anthropology to the World
For World Anthropology Day, we asked Paul Stoller to share his thoughts on the urgent need for a more public anthropology, as well as his ideas about blogging as one particular way to reach that...
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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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Drawing as Possibility: A Review of Andrew Causey’s Drawn to See: Drawing as...
By Karina Kuschnir This review was first published in Portuguese by Mana, 24 (1), 271-275. During these somewhat discouraging times, Andrew Causey offers us a gift. Drawn to See: Drawing as an...
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A Graphic Conversation: Talking Comics and Scholarship
Anne Brackenbury, Executive Editor at University of Toronto Press, and co-editor of the ethnoGRAPHIC Series, sat down recently with Kendra Boileau, Assistant Director and Editor-in-Chief at Penn State...
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