Writing Anthropology (original) (raw)
Field Notes: A Journal of Collegiate Anthropology Volume 13
Field Notes: A journal of Collegiate Anthropology , 2024
Milwaukee. He holds, from the University of Texas at Arlington, a B.S. in Biology and Psychology, an M.S. in Experimental Psychology, and an M.A. in Sociology. His dissertation project, reflecting his commitment to advancing educational practices, focuses on critically analyzing teaching and learning methodologies in anthropology education. His research interests are varied and include evolutionary mismatch theory, evolutionary medicine, and monotropism. In his spare time, he likes to ponder, through the lens of neuroscientific findings, philosophical questions about the nature of reality, perception, and consciousness. Katrina Frank has studied cultural anthropology for over seven years. She received a BA in Anthropology from Illinois State University and an MS in Anthropology from the University of Wisconsin -Milwaukee. As a Latina, she has always been passionate about Latinx/e studies and learning more about her culture. In her research, Katrina has found that media is one of the most common ways that people are exposed to new cultures and that learning about how cultures are represented can help us to understand how we view ourselves and others in our society. Jo Gansemer recently received her MS in Anthropology from the University of Wisconsin -Milwaukee. She specializes in biological anthropology with a specific focus on primatology. Her interests are multi-disciplinary and include non-human primate behavior, hormones, ethnoprimatology, and conservation. Her graduate research analyzed the relationship between hair cortisol concentration and parity in South African vervet monkeys.
Anthropological Researches and Studies no 8
ANTHROPOLOGICAL RESEARCHES AND STUDIES (ARS), 2018
Domains: bio-medical anthropology: auxology, behavioral ecology, epidemiology, nutrition, physical activity, sport, sexual-reproductive health, population biology, psychology, psychiatry, etc. socio-cultural anthropology: topics based on the behavioral categories (economic, political, linguistic etc.), on human relations (gender, family, nation, etc.), on values (ethical, aesthetic, philosophical, religious, etc.), as well as on methodology.
Field Notes: A Journal of Collegiate Anthropology Volume 9 - Digital Volume 2017
Field Notes: A Journal of Collegiate Anthropology recognizes that the research conducted by students throughout the course of their undergraduate and graduate education is a valuable resource. Therefore, Field Notes exists to give students of anthropology a forum to showcase original, high quality scholarship. The journal is reviewed, edited, and published entirely by anthropology students and is sponsored by the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee's Anthropology Student Union (ASU). The ASU serves anthropology students by encouraging interaction across the four subfields of anthropology in both social and professional environments.
Anthropology supplement (November 2014)
bring together a diverse range of ethnographies that examine and explore the forms of reflection, action, and interaction that govern the ways different contemporary societies create and challenge the limits of reason.
Field Notes: A Journal of Collegiate Anthropology 5(1)
Field Notes: A Journal of Collegiate Anthropology, 2013
is a third year PhD student at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Her research interests include migration, human evolution, human biology, and museum anthropology. Lindsay is currently completing a dissertation examining the American creation movement and its relationship with American natural history museums.
Anthropology Matters Journal 2009, Vol 11 (2)
2016
Drawing on my fieldwork experience in Inhambane, southern Mozambique, where I conducted research on mobile phone use amongst youth, my paper tackles issues of acceptance and rejection. As I sought to gain acceptance amongst youth I found myself participating in various controversial and, at times, dangerous activities that made me the victim of intense gossip and outright rejection by some. The fact that I came to the field accompanied by my husband and daughter only made matters worse. In this paper, I present the challenges of “being cool”, while also “being good”, and the repercussions of my research choices on my social standing. I then discuss how, instead of compromising my research, this predicament had a positive outcome by revealing social dynamics that might otherwise have remained hidden, namely the importance of concealment and the ambiguous role mobile phones play in deceit. Lulu, a young Mozambican man, told me one afternoon that he wished he could go somewhere where n...
Anthropology 3 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
Instructor: Prof. Lourdes Gutiérrez Nájera Office: 303 Silsby Hall Office Hours: M 3-5 and by appointment COURSE DESCRIPTION The goal of cultural anthropology is to understand human diversity in all its various manifestations around the world. Cultural anthropologists are interested in how societies and cultures work – how people in different places adapt to their environment, the various symbolic systems they use to communicate with each other, the political and religious systems that regulate their lives, the ways families are structured, and the ways they make a living. During this class we will learn about people's practices around the world, both to broaden our understanding of how culture structures and patterns the lives of different groups, and to gain a better understanding of ourselves. In an increasingly global world, we need to know who our neighbors are – and what our neighbors see when they look at us. We will begin by looking closely at the concept of culture as the central theme in anthropology, and how culture patterns human behavior. We will explore various aspects of life – including our perceptions of time and space, race, gender, marriage, sexuality, and family – to uncover how what we assume to be natural ways of living are made meaningful and are given value through culture. We will also look at the historical development of social and economic systems, the role of language in culture, and various systems of political power. We will conclude by looking at globalization, the lingering effects of colonialism on power relations across the globe, and we will critically examine projects of international development.
Reviewer for Philosophical anthropology a Summary of the first semester discussions
1. Introduction to Biological Anthropology
2019
Learning Objectives • Define anthropology and the main anthropological approaches • Describe the origins and early development of anthropology • Identify the four subdisciplines of anthropology and specify the focus of each one • Define biological anthropology, describe its key questions, and identify major subfields • Explain key components of the scientific method • Differentiate between hypotheses, theories, and laws • Differentiate science from other ways of knowing The first time one of the authors [Katie Nelson] heard of biological anthropology, she was a first-year college student at Macalester College in Saint Paul, Minnesota, taking her first-ever anthropology course. Before she enrolled in the class she didn't really know what anthropology meant. She knew it had something to do with people, but didn't know how it all fit together. The course description appealed to her, so she signed up. She quickly learned that anthropology was the study of humans and that it was an incredibly broad discipline that included explorations of cultural diversity, human origins, past human societies, and human languages, among a great many other subjects. She had always been interested in learning about people. She enjoyed observing the different ways people interacted in public spaces, like the mall or the zoo. She enjoyed learning Spanish in high school and loved listening to how people who spoke different languages produced different sounds. She was curious about how people inherited unique characteristics from their parents and was especially intrigued by immigration and migration and what caused people to uproot themselves and move to another part of the world. During the second week of class she began to learn about biological anthropology and some of the leading theories for how and why ancient humans left Africa and migrated throughout the world. As she sat in class, she vividly remembers imagining a small group of ancient humans walking barefoot together through the African savannah. She imagined what they wore, what their language sounded like, how they held hands, how they shared food, and so on. She wondered why they were migrating and what they would miss about their homeland. She was hooked on anthropology! WHAT IS ANTHROPOLOGY? Why are people so diverse? Some people live in the frigid Arctic tundra, others in the arid deserts of sub-Saharan Africa, and still others in the dense forests of Papua New Guinea. Human beings speak more than 6,000 distinct languages. Some people are barely five feet tall while others stoop to fit through a standard door frame. In some places, people generally have very dark skin, in other places, people are generally pale. In some societies, eating pig is strictly prohibited; in others, pork is a rather ordinary food. What makes people differ from one another? What do we all share in common? How are humans different from other primates? How have primates adapted to different places? How and why did humans develop in the first place? These are some of the questions anthropologists try to answer.