“It’s Not You, It’s Not Me—It’s Us!”: Challenging Public Perceptions of Anthropology through Experiential Learning - Q&A

“It’s Not You, It’s Not Me—It’s Us!”: Challenging Public Perceptions of Anthropology through Experiential Learning

 

CHAIR: SCHUG, Seran (Rowan U)

 

PANELISTS: SCHULTZ, Jared S., FARRELL, Gianna, HOOD, Rosalie, GUSTAFSON, Kelsey, LINCOLN, Nicholas, and HARVEY, Victoria (Rowan U)

 

SCHUG, Seran (Rowan U) “It’s Not You, It’s Not Me—It’s Us!”: Challenging Public Perceptions of Anthropology through Experiential Learning. This panel addresses the long-standing misperceptions of anthropology as a static social science about distant others rather than a dynamic exploration of relationships. We showcase experiential learning projects that challenge misrepresentations and misappropriations of ethnographic knowledge and practices. Projects include script-writing and other writing culture projects that educate and critique the process of ethnography, student-run development of a museum with audience engaged interactive displays, collaborative storytelling for an online archive— “Voices of the Garden State,” building a database of legal cases that affect traditional Native American/American Indian practices, and photo- ethnography as a collaborative relational effort.

 

Session took place in Santa Fe, NM at the 77th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2017.