Craft as Pedagogy: De-mythologising the Anthropology Curriculum

For the past 10 years, I have been conducting public crafting<br/>workshops targeting different social demographics and<br/>employing a range of crafting mediums. Recently, I have brought<br/>these workshop structures into the university classroom as a way<br/>of highlighting how practice-based methodologies can be added<br/>to the anthropology toolkit. Using Camille Nahkid’s (ed)<br/>groundbreaking concept of de-mythologising (2023), this paper<br/>explores why adding craft to an anthropology curriculum is an<br/>important experience for student learning outcomes. Additionally,<br/>it will be argued that there is space for us to incorporate craft in<br/>new and dynamic ways as a tool for gaining new and innovative<br/>forms of knowledges while decolonising anthropology.