Dana McLachlin

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Dana McLachlin is a PhD student in anthropology at Duke University, with research interests in digital labor platforms, gender, and the gig economy in urban Bangladesh.

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Syllabus Archive: Black Anthropology

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Syllabus Archive: Black Anthropology

This syllabus archive brings together a range of syllabi concerned with race and anthropology, with a particular focus on Blackness. Blackness is fundamental to... More

Writing and Teaching Life and Death: A Conversation with Anne Allison

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Writing and Teaching Life and Death: A Conversation with Anne Allison

In this conversation, Anne Allison, Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University and Society for Cultural Anthropology past president, reflects on the ... More

The Text as Teacher: Against Reading as a Resource Relation

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The Text as Teacher: Against Reading as a Resource Relation

What can a text about anti-colonial science teach us about teaching anthropology? We started thinking together in early 2022 about how Max Liboiron’s book Poll... More

Knots of Connection

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Knots of Connection

Donna Haraway (2016, 1) argues that in times of devastating inequality, violence, and climate change our “task is to make kin in lines of inventive connection a... More

Teaching Tools: Swim Lesson

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Teaching Tools: Swim Lesson

I nearly failed my first assignment in a pedagogy course. We were asked to provide written comments on a student’s first-year essay. I extensively marked up the... More

Teaching Ethnography through Theater

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Teaching Ethnography through Theater

Anthropologists often distinguish ethnography from other methods through the role of the researcher. In ethnography, the researcher’s social position, embodied ... More