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Matt Sponheimer Feb 28, 2023

Check out my latest contribution to The Familiar Strange! Today, my senior seminar students and I are discussing old anthropology textbooks from the 50s, 70s, and 2020!

I've also linked the syllabus for the course mentioned, Advanced Anthropological Theory, below.

https://thefamiliarstrange.com/2023/02/27/teaching-textbooks/

Teaching from the Textbooks: An Archaeology of the Current Historical Moment

On the last day of class, my advanced theory students would break up into small groups and each have the option of choosing one such old anthropology textbook from the box of them that I had select…

The Familiar Strange

Teaching from the Textbooks: An Archaeology of the Current Historical Moment

Advanced Anthropological Theory (ANTH 301) The Canon in Conversation