Anthropology and Education

Late 20th century high school in the American Midwest: The sites where a community displays itself to itself, in all its divisions and
affirmations: ceremonially (football and basketball, cheerleading), politically (taxing all to ensure the future through education) and structurally (class and race). (H. Varenne)

A circle of Iranian seminarian (howzevi) women in Qom doing Mobaheseh, a daily practice of disputing Islamic edicts or Islamic text. The women use Manteq, an approach to disputation grounded in Aristotelian logic. (A. Tawasil)

Children playing on the ruins of their bombed school in 1945 London in what became known as an Adventure playground—a different form of emancipatory pedagogy through unsupervised play during times of crises.

Rural people from Sumapaz (Colombian Eastern Andes) who write without the direct guidance of any instructor and for decades have used to press their case about land property and political participation. (D. Rudas-Burgos and E. Guerrero)

Re-imagining Germany and migration: a wall in Kreuzberg, a neighborhood in Berlin known for its nightlife, activists and artists, many from Turkey and from other Muslim countries. (B. Burnside)

The anthropologist with other young adults at play on an 'ultimate frisbee' field as they make their lives in Beijing, China (M. Zhang)