Leah Zani

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Forensic Imaginary: Glen Canyon

Theorizing the Contemporary

Forensic Imaginary: Glen Canyon

The ruin of America’s first high explosives factory is in Glen Canyon, an urban park in San Francisco. The Giant Powder Works exploded in November 1869 after on... More

Cultural Anthropology Responds to Trump

Collaborative Topics (Archive)

Cultural Anthropology Responds to Trump

For our inaugural Collaboration Studio, we have collected politically relevant content about the election of Donald Trump as president of the United States and ... More

Teaching Race: Integration

Member Voices

Teaching Race: Integration

How do we teach race to our students and wider publics? This Correspondences session collects answers to this question from several domains of the discipline. A... More

Teaching Race

Member Voices

Teaching Race

Anthropologists have been grappling with race since the beginning of the discipline, and we have not kept quiet about it. From Franz Boas’s early critiques of t... More

A New Vision for Teaching Tools

Teaching Tools

A New Vision for Teaching Tools

As the new section editor for the Teaching Tools section of the Cultural Anthropology website, I want to take this opportunity to present my vision for the sect... More

Teaching Anthropology Electric

Supplementals

Teaching Anthropology Electric

I sing the body electric,The armies of those I love engirth me and I engirth them,They will not let me off till I go with them, respond to them,And discorrupt t... More

Teaching Embodiment through Technology

Teaching Tools

Teaching Embodiment through Technology

This three-hour class is intended to be modular: it is broken into three one-hour units (Embodiment, Technology, and the Case Study) that are designed to fit wi... More