The teaching of anthropology : problems, issues, and decisions / edited by Conrad Phillip Kottak [and others] ; with a foreword by Jack Cornman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kottak, Conrad Phillip.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anthropology--Study and teaching (Higher)--United States.

Anthropology.

Anthropology teachers--Training of--United States.

Anthropology teachers.

Anthropology--Study and teaching (Higher).

Anthropology teachers--Training of.

United States.

Physical Description:

ix, 381 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Mountain View, Calif. : Mayfield Pub., ©1997.

Contents:

PART I. TEACHING THE INTRODUCTORY COURSE

Central Themes in the Teaching of Anthropology / Conrad Kottak

Anthropology Needs Holism: Holism Needs Anthropology / Marvin Harris

Science in Anthropology / Melvin Ember and Carol Ember

Cleansing Young Minds, or What Should We Be Doing in Introductory Anthropology / William A. Haviland

Anthropology's Challenge: Disquieting Ideas for Diverse Students / B. Breitborde

Empowering Students at the Introductory Level / Robert Borofsky

Teaching and Learning Anthropology in the 21st Century / Aaron Podolefsky

The Ethnographic Approach to Teaching Cultural Anthropology / David McCurdy

PART II. TEACHING ABOUT CULTURAL DIVERSITY

Teaching about Cultural Diversity / Jane White

Teaching Culture Using "Culture Cases" / George and Louise Spindler

Fifty Years of Teaching Cultural Anthropology / Ernestine Friedl

Using Anthropology to Understand and Overcome Cultural Bias / Yolanda Moses and Carol Mukhopadhyay

The Postmodern Condition and the Teaching of Anthropology / George E. Marcus

Close Encounters of the Third Kind: Selected Themes, Resources, and Strategies in Teaching Cultural Anthropology / Serena Nanda

Strategies for Combating Racism in the Classroom / Michele Foster

What Adding Women Has Stirred Up: Feminist Issues in Teaching Cultural Anthropology / Deborah Rubin

Teaching With Film / Teaching With Video / Karl Heider

PART III. TEACHING LINGUISTIC ANTHROPOLOGY

"Humanizing" Language Through its Anthropological Study / B. Breitborde

How to Save Linguistic Anthropology / Nancy P. Hickerson

How Culture Works: Teaching Linguistic Anthropology as the Study of Language in Culture / Carol M. Eastman

Language in Society / Jean DeBernardi

PART IV. TEACHING PALEOANTHROPOLOGY

Paleoanthropology in the 1990s / Patricia C. Rice

The Teaching of Physical Anthropology / Philip L. Stein

Teaching About Race / Alice M. Brues

Teaching About Human Variation: An Anthropological Tradition for the 21st Century / Leonard Lieberman and Rodney Kirk

Paleoanthropology: The "Exotic" and "Esoteric" Become Relevant / Frank E. Poirier

Central Themes in Archaeology / Steven Plog and Fred Plog

Teaching Biocultural Anthropology / Mark Nathan Cohen

Introductory Archaeology: An Identity Crisis in the Temple of Doom / James Deetz

The Past Meets the Future: New Approaches to Teaching Archaeology / George H. Michaels and Brian M. Fagan

Participant Archaeology / Patricia C. Rice

PART V. TEACHING APPLIED ANTHROPOLOGY

Training in Applied Anthropology: Uniting Theory and Practice / Conrad Phillip Kottak

Contested Territories: Teaching the Uses of Anthropology / Erve Chambers

Innovative Applied Anthropology: Research Practices Should be Used in the Precollegiate and Undergraduate Classroom / John van Willigen

Reflections on Teaching Anthropology for Use in the Public and Private Sector / Karin E. Tice

Intrusive Anthropology / Corinne Shear Wood

PART VI. TEACHING ANTHROPOLOGY TO PRECOLLEGIATE TEACHERS AND STUDENTS

Problems, Issues, and Solutions in the Teaching of Anthropology K-12 / Jane J. White

The Challenge of Exclusion: Anthropology, Teachers, and Schools / Ruth Selig

Anthropology in the Science and Social Sciences Curriculum / Dennis W. Cheek

Archaeology for the Young Reader / Norah Moloney

Introducing Research Through Chocolate: A Fifth-Grade Class Gets a Taste of Anthropology / Ann Christine Frankowski

Using the Construct of Culture to Teach about "The Other" / Jane J. White

"Shut My Mouth Wide Open": A Conversation with Successful Teachers of African-American Students / Gloria Ladson-Billings

Teaching Anthropological Methods to Teachers: The Transformation of Knowledge / Norma Gonzalez and Cathy Amanti

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Teaching of anthropology.

ISBN:

1559347112

9781559347112

OCLC:

34691212

Online:

Publisher description