Fantasy recommendations for anthropologists
As has now been established, I am an anthropologist. But I am also a big science fiction and fantasy fan*. Often, I feel like these two things are very closely related to each other. Plenty of science...
View ArticleSquee on Learning New Things, or, Biological Anthropology Is Super Different
a relevant t-shirt that coincidentally happens to be available for sale through my store I am determined to become more of a curmudgeon. When I came here after working as a case worker for an awesome...
View ArticleHarry Potter would be Sociocultural
The Four Houses of Anthropology* Now I know this is going to be a contentious topic, but sometimes a person just has to stand up and decide which branch of anthropology corresponds best to each of the...
View ArticleWhat’s your animal?
Some people hate icebreakers – if you’re one of them, maybe pass on this post – but I’ve got one that I learned from my undergrad adviser* that I swear by. The central gist of it is that each student...
View ArticleApplied Post-Apocalyptic Biological Anthropology
I offer to you a lesson plan* I made for a week on natural selection and cultural adaptation in a bioanth class. Use as you like! APOCALYPTIC CAUSES: GROUP 1: zombie pandemic** GROUP 2: a chain...
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