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Introduction: Educating Anthropologists and Teaching Anthropology
Lorenzo Cañás Bottos, Jakob Krause-Jensen and Ioannis Manos

Part I: Global Contexts: Localising Anthropology

Chapter 1. Becoming a Social Anthropologist in South-East Mexico: A Personal Account from Chiapas
José Luis Escalona Victoria

Chapter 2. Canon Recreation in Teaching and Learning Anthropology in Brazil
Guillermo Vega Sanabria

Chapter 3. Objects and Producers of Knowledge: Is It Possible to Make a Transition from One to the Other?
Subhadra Mitra Channa

Chapter 4. Exporting, Appropriating and Reorienting the Canon: The Founding of Sociocultural Anthropology in Estonia
Lorenzo Cañás Bottos

Part II: Contested Spaces: Beyond Disciplinary Boundaries

Chapter 5. Making the Familiar Strange: Teaching Organisational Anthropology to Working Professionals in Denmark
Jakob Krause-Jensen

Chapter 6. An Emergency Toolkit for Non-Anthropologists: Teaching Anthropology at an Interdisciplinary Educational Environment in Globalising South Korea
Seung-Mi Han

Chapter 7. Teaching Ethnography in Greece: Engaged Practice and Rethinking the Discipline
Ioannis Manos

Chapter 8. Challenges and Potentials of Teaching College Anthropology in Twenty-First-Century Morocco
Kamal Feriali

Part III: Multimodal Engagements: Expanding Anthropological Pedagogies

Chapter 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 Almeida

Chapter 10. Person-Centred and Existential Approaches to Anthropology
John Loewenthal

Chapter 11. Digital Dialogues: Exploring ChatGPT and AI Chatbots in Anthropological Education
Mark Friis Hau

Chapter 12. Anthropology as Counter-Attack: Rethinking Brazil through Teaching and Learning in Times of Pandemic
Leonardo Carbonieri Campoy

Afterword
David Mills

Index

Educating Anthropologists in the Contemporary World

Rethinking Teaching, Learning, and Disciplinary Boundaries

Edited by Lorenzo Cañás Bottos, Jakob Krause-Jensen and Ioannis Manos

Afterword by David Mills

242 pages, 20 illus., bibliog., index

ISBN 978-1-83695-479-8 Hb Published (May 2026)

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“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

Education is arguably the central arena where the discipline of anthropology is reproduced, challenged, and renewed. This volume examines how anthropology is taught and transformed in diverse institutional and socio-political contexts worldwide. Covering themes such as multimodal teaching, research-led learning, and disciplinary boundaries, the book offers new insights into the changing role of teaching within anthropology. This book compiles ethnographically grounded case studies to explore how educators respond to technological advancements, neoliberal influences, and calls for decolonising pedagogy. By highlighting content-specific strategies and comparative reflection, this study views anthropological education as a vibrant and critical space where anthropology is reimagined and revitalised.

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).

Jakob Krause-Jensen is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the Department of Education at Aarhus University. He is the author of Flexible Firm. The Design of Culture at Bang & Olufsen (Berghahn books, 2013) and is co-editor of Berghahn’s Anthropology of Work series.

Ioannis Manos is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Macedonia in Thessaloniki, Greece. He served as the guest editor for the Special Issue:Teaching Anthropology in Southern Europe (2021) and is a co-editor of Balkan Border Crossings: Third Annual of the Konitsa Summer School (Lit Verlag, 2014).

Series: Volume 9, Higher Education in Critical Perspective: Practices and Policies

Subject: Educational Studies Anthropology (General)

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BISAC: SOC002010 SOCIAL SCIENCE/Anthropology/Cultural & Social; EDU040000 EDUCATION/Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects; EDU034000 EDUCATION/Educational Policy & Reform/General

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Educating Anthropologists in the Contemporary World

Rethinking Teaching, Learning, and Disciplinary Boundaries

Edited by Lorenzo Cañás Bottos, Jakob Krause-Jensen and Ioannis Manos

Afterword by David Mills

Series: Volume 9, Higher Education in Critical Perspective: Practices and Policies

Subject: Educational Studies Anthropology (General)

Area:

This title is published as Open Access

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Educating Anthropologists in the Contemporary World

Rethinking Teaching, Learning, and Disciplinary Boundaries

Edited by Lorenzo Cañás Bottos, Jakob Krause-Jensen and Ioannis Manos

Afterword by David Mills

Series: Volume 9, Higher Education in Critical Perspective: Practices and Policies

Subject: Educational Studies Anthropology (General)

Area:

This title is published as Open Access

Full Text PDF | Full Text ePUB Made available under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license with support from Knowledge Unlatched.