Background: Although past studies of service-learning focus on assessing student growth, few studies address how to support students in applying theory to their service-learning experiences. Yet, the task of applying theory is a central component of critical reflections within the social sciences in higher education and often causes anxiety among undergraduate students. Purpose: This article identifies a pedagogical model that helps students navigate the selection and application of theory to their service-learning experiences. Methodology/Approach: The pedagogical model is based on a case study of an upper-division anthropology service-learning course, which included survey and interview data to assess the model’s effectiveness. Findings/Conclusions: The findings indicate that a familiar framing analogy, combined with a specific set of scaffolded in-class activities that takes into consideration Perry’s scheme of learning, is useful for bridging the gap between understanding theory and selecting and applying a particular theory to service-learning projects. Such an approach helped relieve student anxiety and confusion surrounding theory application and service-learning. Implications: To grow as scholars, students must be able to match theory to real-world situations on their own. By combining a framing analogy with scaffolded activities, instructors can help students transition from memorizing theories to applying them to their service-learning.

While team‐based and interdisciplinary research is increasingly common for anthropologists and other researchers, pedagogical strategies for integrating hands‐on training in this area is underexplored. As anthropologists reflect on how to prepare the next generation of researchers, this article addresses a strategy for designing and assessing undergraduate assignments that provides undergraduate and graduate students experiences that are transferable to interdisciplinary and team‐based projects. I argue that a collaborative assessment approach to undergraduate applied anthropology assignments based on a model for developing team‐based codebooks by MacQueen et al. (2008) can support graduate and undergraduate students in acquiring skills for their future careers. Drawing on several years of experience teaching medium‐to‐large enrolling introductory cultural anthropology courses, this article illustrates how a collaborative assessment approach offers graduate teaching assistants hands‐on experience with navigating team‐based projects and codebook development as well as supports undergraduate students in refining their critical thinking and writing skills interdisciplinarily.

This article expands the recent sensorial turn in identity studies. It illustrates how individuals embody and link together multiple identities through the multivocality of a particular sensory experience as well as the various meanings encapsulated within the sensory experiences of a particular event. Through a case study of King and Queen celebrations in Santa Catarina, Brazil, this article investigates the social meanings associated with the aesthetics of one of the oldest German traditions in the country. While on the surface the King and Queen celebration appears to be solely a celebration of German roots, a focus on the multivocality of the sensory experiences reveals a more complicated situation where the hosts are claiming not just a German ethnic identity but a Brazilian national identity by drawing upon the multiple social meanings associated with certain sensory experiences and foregrounding particular aesthetics.

R e s u m oEste artigo analisa o papel que o turismoétnico tem na construção da classe média e a interação entre as classes médias rurais e urbanas neste processo. Baseando-se em dados etnográficos da Festa Pomerana, uma festa alemã em Pomerode, Brasil, este artigo mostra que a manutenção da etnicidadeé parte de um amplo processo de construção da classe média no Brasil. Este artigo usa a metáfora roots/routes para analisar a formação e manutenção de certos segmentos da classe média na América Latina. Este artigo ilustra que a classe média no Brasil ajuda a perpetuar tradiçõesétnicas alemães no Brasil e ao mesmo tempo este turismoétnico contribui para a formação da classe média no país. O artigo salienta o papel que turismo doméstico tem na construção da identidade de classe média nas regiões rurais da América Latina e a interação com a classe média urbana. [Brasil, classe media, etnicidade, identidade, turismo] A b s t r a c tThis article analyzes the role that ethnic tourism plays in the formation of the middle class and the interaction of rural and urban residents in this process. Drawing on ethnographic data from Festa Pomerana, a German festival in Pomerode, Brazil, the article illustrates how the maintenance of ethnic roots is part of a larger process of constructing Brazil's middle class. It adapts the root/route metaphor established by previous scholars to analyze the formation and maintenance of certain segments of the middle class in Latin America. It argues that middle-class Brazilians' consumption of German and other ethnic traditions through domestic tourism helps perpetuate ethnic roots at the same time as it provides semirural hosts and urban tourists with routes to middle-classdom. This work highlights the role of domestic tourism in the construction of middle-class identity in less urban regions of Latin America and its interplay with middle-class identity in larger urban spaces. [Brazil, class, ethnicity, identity, tourism] As I and other participants enter Festa Pomerana in Pomerode, Brazil, the vivid blue and white ribbons and banners draw our attention, as do the colorful flower gardens of homes passed on the way to the festival grounds. Despite the hot and humid day, Brazilian dancers from Pomerode and the surrounding region perform German folk dances in several layers of clothing, including long sleeves and slacks. Their attire and performances are inspired by, and at times exact replications of, folk traditions from various regions in Germany and other Germanic countries. While some of the Brazilian locals and tourists in attendance are dressed in contemporary clothing, others sport traditional-looking German attire adapted in design and material for Brazilian weather and fashion and sold by local seamstresses. The smell of the wood-fired ovens and baking bread and cucas, a German-style dessert made daily on site by local women, tempt the senses and the pocket book, as do the many ethnically German dishes offered at the event and its cooking competitions. Within Festa Pomerana, the A...

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