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Teaching Culture through Tourism: Agency, Authenticity, and Colonialism

In this contribution, Karoline Guelke discusses how studies of tourism can help students overcome common misperceptions of other cultures as static and unchanging. During one of my first years of teaching, a student came up to me after a lecture … read more…

  • dateApril 9, 2022
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  • posted byJohn Barker
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Ethnography that Meets Classroom Needs

As we watch the course orders for the Spring 2013 term starting to come in, it’s clear that Made in Madagascar, our newest ethnography in the Teaching Culture Series, has caught instructors’ imaginations. Course adoptions are happening at every kind … read more…

  • dateDecember 10, 2012
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  • posted byAnne
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UTP @ the AAA

We’re energized here after the AAA meetings in San Francisco! The UTP booth was a veritable hive of activity with authors, friends, and those new to Press stopping by to chat. It was great to see you all, and to … read more…

  • dateNovember 26, 2012
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  • posted byAnne
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The Benefits of Publishing with UTP Higher Education

Many academic presses have jumped on the textbook bandwagon these days. But not all presses are equal in the way they approach the publishing process. Some ask authors themselves to take on the work of copyediting. Others do limited promotion. … read more…

  • dateNovember 16, 2012
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  • posted byAnne Brackenbury
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