Consumer Anthropology and AI: Teaching Business School Students
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2w ago
Robert J. Morais, Columbia Business School In the fall of 2023, I integrated generative artificial intelligence (AI) into my Columbia Business School course, Market Intelligence: The Art and the Science. The course covers how brand-building insights, strategic planning, and marketing decision making are best served by applying an array of behavioral, social, and mathematical sciences and using them complementarily. In preparation for a class based my 2022 article in Teaching Anthropology, Toward a Pedagogy for Consumer Anthropology: Method, Theory, Marketing, I provided ChatGPT with the f ..read more
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A Classroom Research Project with Lasting Meaning
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2w ago
ELIZABETH KEATING, Professor of Anthropology & Graduate Faculty, Human Dimensions of Organizations, The University of Texas at Austin Teaching through research is recognized as one of the strengths of anthropology.  A few years ago, as I was researching culture change across generations, I brought my research into the classroom by asking students to do some research in their own families. I teach Culture and Communication at the University of Texas at Austin, in classes ranging from 25 to 200 students, with students coming from majors ranging from liberal arts to engineering. Specific ..read more
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Call for Papers: Anthropological Knowledge Production in the era of AIs and fast evolving technologies.
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2w ago
RAI MAJOR CONFERENCE: ANTHROPOLOGY AND EDUCATION, 25 June – 28 June 2024, Senate House, University of London (in person conference). Teaching Anthropology Journal is delighted to be hosting the panel: ‘Anthropological Knowledge Production in the era of AIs and fast evolving technologies’. With the growing accessibility of AIs, haptic technologies and open-source software, we asks; ‘how is anthropological knowledge production changing in this fast growing socio-technological era?’ Call for papers – extended to 26th January 2024. In the last few years, Teaching Anthropology journal has received ..read more
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Multimodal ethnographies for teaching anthropological sensibilities
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2w ago
Anna Apostolidou PhD, Assistant Professor of Social Anthropology, Ionian University Given the history of our discipline, it seems rather peculiar that anthropologists are not more “naturally inclined” to employ multimodality in their research and teaching. Apart from its expressive potential, multimodality’s key quality is that it proposes dynamic alternatives to enduring and delimiting dichotomies (particularly text/image) that have been tantalizing the field for over a century, and offers more-than-textual mediations of sensorial research experiences, that also affect training, dissemination ..read more
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London Anthropology Day (30th June)
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2w ago
London Anthropology day, 30th June 2023, British Museum Are you fascinated by different cultures? Curious about human evolution? Or looking for a broad and exciting degree? Discover what anthropology is all about by popping along to the British Musuem for London Anthropology Day. This free taster day, for Years 12, 13 and FE students, teachers, career advisers and parents, is stacked full of workshops, talks and stalls from universities offering anthropology across the country. You’ll gain hands-on experience of what it is like to study anthropology. Take part in interactive workshops suc ..read more
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Active learning as a pedagogical strategy to enhance the learning of anthropology
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2w ago
Marilou Polymeropoulou, University of Oxford, School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography Active learning is a well-established pedagogical strategy in secondary and tertiary education where independent learning and critical thinking are nurtured. Learners’ engagement, active participation, and reflection are situated at the core of active learning. Previous studies have shown that this strategy has been successful at reducing failure rates in STEM courses at university (Talbert et al., 2019) and at raising learner satisfaction as they enjoy their courses more (Lumpkin et al., 2015). In addi ..read more
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Call For Papers: Trauma Informed Anthropology
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2w ago
Deadline for Abstract Submissions: 2nd April 2023 Special Issue: Trauma-Informed Anthropology Guest Editor: Dr William Tantam, Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, University of Bristol, United Kingdom Theme Trauma manifests in different ways, for different people, and at different times, and has been conceptualised as taking people to the ‘edge of existence’ (Lester 2013). How might we recognise and engage with understandings of trauma, and what implications might this have for anthropological research and teaching? This Teaching Anthropology Special Issue will explore approaches to tr ..read more
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Learning How to Wash Your Hands in Anthropology Class 
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2w ago
Anne Schiller, George Mason University  From the outset of the SARS-Covid 19 pandemic, governments and private entities worldwide launched health awareness campaigns that included instruction on cleansing one’s hands. Wall signs and foot markers materialized in a thrice. A barrage of how-to videos were posted on websites the world over. Medical doctors modelled competence, washing their hands on television while singing the happy birthday song (twice). These campaigns continue alongside already-established theme days or weeks that also direct attention to handwashing and disease preventio ..read more
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Consumer Anthropology and AI: Teaching Business School Students
Teaching Anthropology Blog
by Teaching Anthropology
3M ago
Robert J. Morais, Columbia Business School In the fall of 2023, I integrated generative artificial intelligence (AI) into my Columbia Business School course, Market Intelligence: The Art and the Science. The course covers how brand-building insights, strategic planning, and marketing decision making are best served by applying an array of behavioral, social, and mathematical sciences and using them complementarily. In preparation for a class based my 2022 article in Teaching Anthropology, Toward a Pedagogy for Consumer Anthropology: Method, Theory, Marketing, I provided ChatGPT with the f ..read more
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A Classroom Research Project with Lasting Meaning
Teaching Anthropology Blog
by Teaching Anthropology
4M ago
ELIZABETH KEATING, Professor of Anthropology & Graduate Faculty, Human Dimensions of Organizations, The University of Texas at Austin Teaching through research is recognized as one of the strengths of anthropology.  A few years ago, as I was researching culture change across generations, I brought my research into the classroom by asking students to do some research in their own families. I teach Culture and Communication at the University of Texas at Austin, in classes ranging from 25 to 200 students, with students coming from majors ranging from liberal arts to engineering. Specific ..read more
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