ABSTRACT
Anthropology and archaeology are dynamic sciences whose practitioners generate field data through observation and construct narrative descriptions and interpretations of that data for both professional and public audiences. This lesson was born out of the belief that, in addition to traditional classroom instruction, undergraduate anthropology courses must involve students directly in the process of data collection and interpretation. By turning students into participant-observers of their own anthropological education, out-of-classroom exercises serve as productive links between students’ lives and abstract anthropological and archaeological concepts.
