Educating Anthropologists in the Contemporary World: Rethinking Teaching, Learning, and Disciplinary Boundaries (Higher Education in Critical Perspective: Practices and Policies, 9)

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).