Cultural Anthropology - Discovering our Past

American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 1994

When Jere Haas called me up and invited me to address this gathering, I told him that I was honored, but that I had a potentially disqualifying handicap. Since the last time I gave the luncheon talk, at the AAPA meetings in Philadelphia ten years ago, I had become the Editor of the American Journal of Physical Anthropology; and the AJPA's editor is supposed to be impartial and not harbor any ulterior preferences for one set of ideas over another. I hesitated to run the risk of being seen in public having any opinions about anything. After thinking it over, I felt that I ought to talk about something that would be interesting to the members of this Association, but not have any direct bearing on anybody's scientific research. So I decided to talk about anthropology.

This course will introduce students to the basic concepts anthropologists use to describe human interactions. We will acquire a vocabulary of terms, a sense of the history of the discipline and a chance to debate specific points of view proposed by the discipline. The relevance of anthropological systems approach to current events is a central challenge of the course. The instructor is committed to helping students formulate and express their own views and to consider what kinds of possibilities for involvement and responsibilities might be associated with their viewpoint.

Field Notes: A Journal of Collegiate Anthropology - Volume 10, 2019

Field Notes: A Journal of Collegiate Anthropology recognizes that the research conducted by students throughout the course of their undergraduate and graduate education is a valuable resource. Therefore, Field Notes exists to give students of anthropology a forum to showcase original, high quality scholarship. The journal is reviewed, edited, and published entirely by anthropology students and is sponsored by the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee's Anthropology Student Union (ASU). The ASU serves anthropology students by encouraging interaction across the four subfields of anthropology in both social and professional environments.

Book, 1953

This is a classic text by one of the pioneers, Nirmal Kumar Bose, of Indian anthropology. The book has become rare but not dated.

Instructor: Prof. Lourdes Gutiérrez Nájera Office: 303 Silsby Hall Office Hours: M 3-5 and by appointment

2018

Building on last year's successful launch of the journal, Student Anthropologist continues the tradition of giving students in Anthropology and any students interested in anthropology, the chance to make their voices heard on issues they find pertinent. The journal gives students an opportunity to see their work in print, providing them a chance to see what the world of anthropology is all about once they leave the confines of university. Eight submissions were selected this year, based on the input of five editors. The topics are diverse, covering issues such as consumerism, cultural appropriation, land ownership, and indigenous rights. As with last year, the papers are of cultural anthropology, again due to greater interest in topics in that field.

2019

This book includes the abstracts of all the papers presented at the 5th Annual International Conference on Anthropology (17-20 June 2019), organized by the Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER).

Current Anthropology, 2009

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2018

This book includes the abstracts of all the papers presented at the 4th Annual International Conference on Anthropology (18-21 June 2018), organized by the Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER).

This is a new syllabus for a class I've been teaching for 20 years. Redone--new readings, new assignments, and Covid-ready to be taught either in-person or online.

Field Notes: A journal of Collegiate Anthropology , 2024

Milwaukee. He holds, from the University of Texas at Arlington, a B.S. in Biology and Psychology, an M.S. in Experimental Psychology, and an M.A. in Sociology. His dissertation project, reflecting his commitment to advancing educational practices, focuses on critically analyzing teaching and learning methodologies in anthropology education. His research interests are varied and include evolutionary mismatch theory, evolutionary medicine, and monotropism. In his spare time, he likes to ponder, through the lens of neuroscientific findings, philosophical questions about the nature of reality, perception, and consciousness. Katrina Frank has studied cultural anthropology for over seven years. She received a BA in Anthropology from Illinois State University and an MS in Anthropology from the University of Wisconsin -Milwaukee. As a Latina, she has always been passionate about Latinx/e studies and learning more about her culture. In her research, Katrina has found that media is one of the most common ways that people are exposed to new cultures and that learning about how cultures are represented can help us to understand how we view ourselves and others in our society. Jo Gansemer recently received her MS in Anthropology from the University of Wisconsin -Milwaukee. She specializes in biological anthropology with a specific focus on primatology. Her interests are multi-disciplinary and include non-human primate behavior, hormones, ethnoprimatology, and conservation. Her graduate research analyzed the relationship between hair cortisol concentration and parity in South African vervet monkeys.

21st Century Anthropology: A Reference Handbook, 2010

Ethnoarchaeology, 2019

Six years ago we took over the editorship of Ethnoarchaeology from the founders, Kathryn Arthur and Liam Frink. The success of the journal in gaining both authors and readers demonstrates their wisdom in perceiving the need for a journal focusing on ethnoarchaeology and experimental archaeology. We have enjoyed being editors, have learned a great deal, worked with wonderful authors, reviewers, and other colleagues, and, we hope, helped publish some excellent papers. We wish to thank the previous editors who bequeathed us a thriving journal, a diverse and expert editorial board, all of the scholars who invested their time providing reviews of articles, and both the past Book Review Editor, Jerimy Cunningham, and the current, Rachel Horowitz. We are delighted now to be passing the journal to the competent hands of Brenda Bowser. Brenda is a well-known ethnoarchaeologist who specializes in both ceramics and space use and has headed the Ecuadorian Amazon Conambo Ethnoarchaeological Project since 1992, She is a prolific scholar with considerable previous editing expertise, including three edited book volumes and five guest-edited journal issues. She will undoubtedly use her talents to continue the best traditions of Ethnoarchaeology, while further developing it in new and exciting directions. In the past Ethnoarchaeology has published a number of defenses of the theoretical bases and usefulness of experimental archaeology and ethnoarchaeology. As a parting editorial comment, we feel it is time to be even more assertive about the value of our endeavor and of its relationship to the general enterprise of anthropology. At our institution and others, anthropology as a field is losing students to supposedly more "useful" and "relevant" departments like economics, computer science, the so-called STEM fields, and even sociology. Some of our difficulty has always come from the relative obscurity of a study that is not taught in most high schools, and that in some minds deals with "foreign," or "exotic" cultures "not relevant" to most people's lives. It is clear that anthropologists, in general, but especially archaeologists need to demonstrate that our field is central to an understanding of the world, not peripheral to it. Anthropology's problems are deeper, however, and connected to theoretical divides in the field, our sensitivity to the power of voice and representation, and compounded by increasing sensitivity to issues of identity. We are being told, and sometimes taught, that every human experience is unique, so to attempt to understand another's experience is ultimately impossible. This is a self-defeating premise that challenges the goals anthropology as a field. In fact, in informal ways what all humans do, every day of their lives, is attempt to understand themselves and their relations with other humans. Thus, anthropology is a basic human activity for everyone everywhere. Our individual uniqueness is canalized by cultural rules. We think and behave in predictable and understandable patterns, and we can communicate and live successfully with each other. Understanding the "Other" in a broad sense, and specific cultures that are not our own, is a path toward understanding ourselves, and getting along with othersperhaps the most valuable skill in today's globalizing world.

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