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Zombies, Zombies, Everywhere

Our love affair with zombies has lasted at least a decade, if not more (28 Days Later came out in 2002!). And yet it doesn’t seem to grow old. Season 7 of The Walking Dead begins later this month, and Fear the Walking Dead appears to be set for a third season. Resident Evil: The Final Chapter and World War Z 2 will be coming out in 2017. People have turned to zombies to inspire things like emergency preparedness (see the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website for Zombie Preparedness and a range of zombie products, for instance). It should be no surprise that zombies have entered the classroom too. read more…

  • dateOctober 17, 2016
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  • posted byErin McGuire
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Ancestral Lines, Second Edition

At the core of the Teaching Culture series of ethnographies is John Barker’s Ancestral Lines: The Maisin of Papua New Guinea and the Fate of the Rainforest. This book has been tremendously successful in college and university classrooms because of its beautiful writing, its clear organization, and because it does not talk down to or bore students. This week, the book is available in a new edition, and we asked John Barker, the author and editor of the Teaching Culture series, to say a few words about its publication and the history behind the book. read more…

  • dateApril 4, 2016
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  • posted byJohn Barker
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