Category Archives: Anthropology

A two-day reading list on race

Posted on June 1, 2012 by Adam Van Arsdale

Our two-day race marathon seminar is over, and what a two-day marathon it was. The eleven of us who took part managed to have a more or less constant 7+ hours of discussion on an ever-evolving though connected series of … Continue reading →

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Speaking about race and whiteness…

Posted on May 29, 2012 by Adam Van Arsdale

…There are a couple of pieces I have been meaning to link to for awhile. As someone who spent way too much of my childhood playing video games, I am predisposed to like John Scalzi’s post at Kotaku using the … Continue reading →

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Race, race and race

Posted on May 29, 2012 by Adam Van Arsdale

My weekend was spent immersed in the world of U10 soccer, as my daughter was taking part in a tournament hosted by our town club. Between six games, field prep and volunteer concession stand duty, there was little time for … Continue reading →

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Teaching in new ways

Posted on May 29, 2012 by Adam Van Arsdale

Holly Dunsworth goes through an assessment of her curricular changes in an Introduction to Biological Anthropology course and her students’ learning experience: Based on only two semesters of data, it’s hard to link my curricular changes to the improvement between … Continue reading →

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Still more on data access

Posted on May 22, 2012 by Adam Van Arsdale

John Markoff has a piece in yesterday’s NY Times about the limited availability of huge troves of digital and internet data produced by companies like Google and Facebook. The issue came to a boil last month at a scientific conference … Continue reading →

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Non-white births in the U.S. and historical U.S. census data

Posted on May 17, 2012 by Adam Van Arsdale

The N.Y. Times has a front-page article on a long-expected announcement from the U.S. Census Bureau that non-Hispanic white births are no longer a majority in the United States. This is the kind of threshold data point that will certainly … Continue reading →

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Biological anthropology blogs

Posted on May 9, 2012 by Adam Van Arsdale

We are not alone… Christopher Lynn does the heavy lifting in putting together an impressive list of biological anthropology blogs. I haven’t come across a number of these before and will have to check them out and add a few … Continue reading →

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More on biocultural anthropology

Posted on May 3, 2012 by Adam Van Arsdale

Kate Clancy’s post that I linked to the other day continues to generate wonderful conversation. I would first recommend re-visiting her original post and checking out the comments, which include very thoughtful replies from a number of people, including Greg … Continue reading →

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Biocultural anthropology and interdisciplinary work

Posted on May 1, 2012 by Adam Van Arsdale

Kate Clancy has a wonderful post up on her Scientific American blog about the nature of interdisciplinary work and what it means for biocultural Anthropology/anthropologists. The whole piece is worth a read and she asks a few questions looking for … Continue reading →

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Thoughts on an anthropology curriculum

Posted on April 30, 2012 by Adam Van Arsdale

Following up on my post last week (the usefulness of Anthropology), I could not help but continue to think about the issue of structuring an anthropological curriculum in such a way as to actively develop skills in students and encourage … Continue reading →

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