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Changed Bodies in an Unchanged World: Teaching Bodies at War
The film Bodies at War (Mina) (2015) by documentarian and anthropologist Emily Cohen (now Emily Cohen Ibañez) can speak to many different lessons. In this post,... More
Teaching the Possibility of Spirits: An Invitation
Constantin Stanislavski (1948) called it “the magic if.” In his method for actors, the question “what if” is the foundation of the connection between an actor a... More
Teaching Race with Lisa Anderson-Levy: Intersectionality, Paradigm Shifts, and the Ubiquity of Whiteness
The word race doesn’t even matter. What we’re talking about are the relationships of power. So if that’s what we’re talking about, okay, so use culture or use e... More
Personal Precarity
As a graduate student, what I found most striking about the initial round of responses to this forum was their silence on the matter of poverty. The fear and an... More
Teaching Fugitive Anthropology with Maya Berry and Colleagues
In the wake of #MeToo and the resulting dialogues over sexual assault and its intersection with racial identities in the United States, this article brings thes... More
Teaching Race: On Stereotypes and Privilege
I am a white woman, an identity I share with the majority of women voters who elected President Donald Trump. I am also middle-class, another aspect of my privi... More