Scroll down for Reading Lists & Syllabi, resources for Teaching Ethnography, Assignments & In-class Activities (including example exercises, ideas, tools for assignment planning, and teaching academic integrity), and Tools & Tips ranging from ant-racist pedagogy to highly-accurate pictures of anthropologists.
Reading Lists & Syllabi
- A Short Resource Guide to Food, Race, and Cultural Appropriation (8 August 2016)
- Anthropoliteia's #BlackLivesMatter Syllabus (5 September 2016)
- Black Disabled Woman Syllabus (19 May 2016)
- Ethno everywhere! Workshop (1 December 2016)
- Decolonizing Anthropology series via Savage Minds (15 December 2016)
- Standing Rock Syllabus (15 December 2016)
- Decolonising Science Reading List (15 December 2016)
- Ethnographic approaches to understanding Trump/Brexit/new rise of conservativism (15 December 2016)
- Imaginative Ethnography Syllabi (CIE) (6 February 2017)
- Calling Bullshit in the Age of Big Data (23 March 2017)
- Water Politics Syllabus & Resources (17 April 2017)
- Islamophobia is Racism Syllabus (18 May 2017)
- From the LSE blog: Reading List: 8 Books on Indigenous Research Methods recommended by Helen Kara
- Perspectives: checking out the new #OpenAccess textbook (7 August 2017)
- Anthropoliteia's list of course syllabi on Policing
- The Charlottesville Syllabus
- Resources for teaching medical anthropology (21 August 2012)
- Syllabi on culture and mental health (28 August 2013)
- Illness and subjectivity: a syllabus (6 November 2013)
- Precarity in Canadian Academia... A Working Bibliography (1 March 2018)
Teaching Ethnography
- Podcasting (ethnography) in the classroom (11 July 2016)
- Ethno everywhere! Workshop (1 December 2016)
- Teaching Ethnography (26 January 2017)
- Jennifer's reports on Luis A. Vivianco's Field Notes: A Guided Journal for Doing Anthropology:
- Book Report Entry #1: Field notes: A Guided Journal for Doing Anthropology (20 February 2017)
- Book Report Entry #2: Beyond Informants (20 March 2017)
- Book Report Entry #3: Taking Notes from Field notes: A Guided Journal for Doing Anthropology (30 March 2017)
- Fieldwork: preparing for the good, bad, and the ugly (16 March 2017)
- Our article on the role of agency and agendas in ethnographic research is useful for novice fieldworkers in considering some of the unanticipated dimension of the iterative process of field research (Promoting publications behind paywalls... or anthro everywhere! in Anthropologica, 15 May 2017)
Assignments & In-class Activities
Exercises and Ideas- Creating classroom culture on "Syllabus Day" (25 August 2016)
- What does knitting sweaters for kittens or filming fetish porn in your basement have in common? An Activity for second semester student introductions (19 January 2017)
- Bringing anthropological ethics into the classroom (24 April 2017)
- Jenks, Angela. "First Day Activity: Ten Things You Believe to be True." Teaching Tools, Cultural Anthropology website, April 13, 2016.
- Anthropology Webinars (27 February 2017)
Planning assignments & teaching Academic Integrity
- Fake News: Questions and Resources for Back to Class and All Year Round (7 September 2017)
- Did I plagiarize? A flow chart (6 November 2017)
- Preventing Academic Dishonesty... (30 November 2017)
- Course Workload Estimator tool (17 July 2016)
Tools & Tips
Equity in the classroom- How To Support Blacademics & Be an Ally (8 July 2016)
- Avoiding gendered bias... for instructors (25 May 2016)
- Teaching Resource: Social Inequality and Teaching in the Academy (25 May 2017)
- Resources for Anti-Racist Pedagogy (11 September 2017)
Other Resources
- Highly Accurate Pictures of Anthropologists (4 January 2018)
- MIT Open Courseware (12 July 2016)
- Teaching tools via Cultural Anthropology (26 April 2016)
- Free Online Tools for Instructors (5 January 2017)
- How to email your professor (3 May 2016)
Last updated: 15 March 2018