Bingo!

August 10, 2017

Bingo!

Bingo card.

My piece on "How to teach about African foragers" has been published in Anthropology News. It is, of course, inspired by Binyavanga Wainaina's "How to write about Africa". "One of my favorite courses to teach centers around a problematic category: hunter-gatherers. But the problematic nature is also one of the reasons why I enjoy teaching this course—it allows me to integrate scientific and critical perspectives in anthropology to train students to recognize myths about foragers and their impacts. Recently, I found a very effective strategy to overcome the challenge of students not recognizing forager myths: a game of bingo." More ...