Educating Anthropologists in the Contemporary World

Lorenzo Cañás Bottos is Professor of Social Anthropology at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). He is the author of Old Colony Mennonites in Argentina and Bolivia: Nation Making, Religious Conflict and Imagination of the Future (Brill, 2008), Christenvolk: Historia y Etnografía de una Colonia Menonita (Antropofagia, 2005) and co-editor of Political Transformation and National Identity Change (Routledge, 2008).

“This is a highly valuable collection which is likely to inspire many teachers of anthropology to review their own pedagogical practices and to reflect on how they themselves might do things differently – and better!” • Robert Gibb, University of Glasgow

• List of IllustrationsIntroduction: Educating Anthropologists and Teaching AnthropologyLorenzo Cañás Bottos, Jakob Krause-Jensen and Ioannis ManosPart I: Global Contexts: Localising AnthropologyChapter 1. Becoming a Social Anthropologist in South-East Mexico: A Personal Account from ChiapasJosé Luis Escalona VictoriaChapter 2. Canon Recreation in Teaching and Learning Anthropology in BrazilGuillermo Vega SanabriaChapter 3. Objects and Producers of Knowledge: Is It Possible to Make a Transition from One to the Other?Subhadra Mitra ChannaChapter 4. Exporting, Appropriating and Reorienting the Canon: The Founding of Sociocultural Anthropology in EstoniaLorenzo Cañás BottosPart II: Contested Spaces: Beyond Disciplinary BoundariesChapter 5. Making the Familiar Strange: Teaching Organisational Anthropology to Working Professionals in DenmarkJakob Krause-JensenChapter 6. An Emergency Toolkit for Non-Anthropologists: Teaching Anthropology at an Interdisciplinary Educational Environment in Globalising South KoreaSeung-Mi HanChapter 7. Teaching Ethnography in Greece: Engaged Practice and Rethinking the DisciplineIoannis ManosChapter 8. Challenges and Potentials of Teaching College Anthropology in Twenty-First-Century MoroccoKamal FerialiPart III: Multimodal Engagements: Expanding Anthropological PedagogiesChapter 9. Drawing Futures for a Drawing Education in Anthropology: The Experiences of the LABareDA (Drawing and Anthropology Lab)Aina Azevedo, Tatiana Lotierzo, Jeferson Carvalho da Silva and Katianne de Sousa AlmeidaChapter 10. Person-Centred and Existential Approaches to AnthropologyJohn LoewenthalChapter 11. Digital Dialogues: Exploring ChatGPT and AI Chatbots in Anthropological EducationMark Friis HauChapter 12. Anthropology as Counter-Attack: Rethinking Brazil through Teaching and Learning in Times of PandemicLeonardo Carbonieri CampoyAfterwordDavid MillsIndex