Comments on: Everything I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Anthropology Class http://www.ethnography.com/2008/05/everything-i-ever-needed-to-know-i-learned-in-anthropology-class/ A group blog on a wide variety of topics realted to anthropology Mon, 08 Mar 2010 05:32:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Anthropology Round Up « Neuroanthropology http://www.ethnography.com/2008/05/everything-i-ever-needed-to-know-i-learned-in-anthropology-class/comment-page-1/#comment-370 Anthropology Round Up « Neuroanthropology Fri, 27 Jun 2008 12:43:57 +0000 http://www.ethnography.com/?p=213#comment-370 [...] Van Gilder, Everything I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Anthropology Class Life and learning lessons from [...] [...] Van Gilder, Everything I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Anthropology Class Life and learning lessons from [...]

]]> By: Tony http://www.ethnography.com/2008/05/everything-i-ever-needed-to-know-i-learned-in-anthropology-class/comment-page-1/#comment-303 Tony Thu, 15 May 2008 09:24:03 +0000 http://www.ethnography.com/?p=213#comment-303 Great commment, particularly the one about the importance of teaching about cultural relativism and symbolic capital. I wish I had a dollar for everytime I have explained to students that you should not read only those writers you already agree with. Some of my best students have been business students who have wandered in to sociology, and sociology students willing to take classes in the business school. The assumptions about the what motivates human beings are different in the two disciplines, and often cannot be reconciled. But because the students are willing to wrestle with contradictory ideas, they become better thinkers for the experience. Great commment, particularly the one about the importance of teaching about cultural relativism and symbolic capital. I wish I had a dollar for everytime I have explained to students that you should not read only those writers you already agree with.

Some of my best students have been business students who have wandered in to sociology, and sociology students willing to take classes in the business school. The assumptions about the what motivates human beings are different in the two disciplines, and often cannot be reconciled. But because the students are willing to wrestle with contradictory ideas, they become better thinkers for the experience.

]]> By: Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology — A Group Blog » Around the Web http://www.ethnography.com/2008/05/everything-i-ever-needed-to-know-i-learned-in-anthropology-class/comment-page-1/#comment-299 Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology — A Group Blog » Around the Web Mon, 12 May 2008 13:28:08 +0000 http://www.ethnography.com/?p=213#comment-299 [...] Life Lessons: Cindy at Ethnography.com muses upon the much-used trope, Everything I Need to Know I learned in an Anthropology Class. [...] [...] Life Lessons: Cindy at Ethnography.com muses upon the much-used trope, Everything I Need to Know I learned in an Anthropology Class. [...]

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