TWIAN: From anthropology to social entrepreneurship

[TWIAN (i.e., This Week in Anthropology) focuses on issues of anthropological practice that are of interest to the NAPA Anthro membership.  The following post from Savage Minds.] This time it’s Joana writing on her own as for the past two years my life has been largely taken over by an enterprise in which Pál only plays…

TWAIN: Learning Foreign Languages (Ethnography.com)

[TWIAN (i.e., This Week in Anthropology) focuses on issues of anthropological practice that are of interest to the NAPA Anthro membership.  The following post from Ethnography.com reminds us of the value of languages. I was reminded of the importance of foreign language learning twice in the last week or so.  This morning I read a…

TWIAN: AAA’s Profiles in Practice Podcast Series

The American Anthropological Associations’s new “Profiles in Practice Podcast Series” is the topic of This Week in Anthropology.  Podcasting has finally arrived into the world of Practicing Anthropologists! In 2007-08, the Practicing Anthropology Working Group (PAWG), with Shirley Fiske serving as an editor, began the “Profiles in Practice” column in Anthropology News. The purpose was…

TWIAN: Undergrad Seminar: Why Incompletes Are So Dangerous (Ethnography.com)

[TWIAN (i.e., This Week in Anthropology) focuses on issues of anthropological practice that are of interest to the NAPA Anthro membership.  The following post from Ethnography.com is a timely way to start the year since many of us are involved in academia. Here we are in the 2nd half of the academic year. If the 1st…