The experience of being an anthropologist in the field

Robert L. Welsch and Luis A. Vivanco, co-authors of Cultural Anthropology: Asking Questions About Humanity, discuss how to show students what it's like to be an anthropologist in the field and how ethnographic methods are used. http://www.oxfordpresents.com/ms/welsch/

Robert L. Welsch (Ph.D. University of Washington), Associate Professor of Anthropology at Franklin Pierce University, is co-author of Cultural Anthropology: Asking Questions About Humanity, coming November 2014. He regularly teaches the introduction to cultural anthropology course. In addition to that, he is a Research Associate for the Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC and the Department of Anthropology at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, as well as an Adjunct Curator in the Department of Anthropology at The Field Museum in Chicago.

Luis A. Vivanco (Ph.D. Princeton University), Associate Professor of Anthropology and Founding Director of the Global Studies Program at the University of Vermont, is co-author of Cultural Anthropology: Asking Questions About Humanity, coming November 2014. He teaches many undergraduate courses, including Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, Anthropology of Media, Environmental Anthropology, Anthropology of Latin America and the Caribbean, and the Anthropology of Mobility. In addition to that, he is the recipient of numerous fellowships and awards, among them two Fulbright awards, a National Endowment for the Humanities scholarship, and Wenner Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research fieldwork support. He has also won the University of Vermont’s highest teaching honor, the Kidder Outstanding Faculty Award, as well as the university’s Outstanding Service-Learning award.

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