Anthropology at WMU provides students with the tools to critically examine cultural and biological change, social inequality, and human diversity. Through engaging coursework, field experiences, and ...

Social and cultural anthropology examines the myriad ways in which human societies organise themselves, create meaning, and negotiate change. It encompasses the study of social institutions, rituals, ...

Anthropology asks big questions about people, culture and change. As an anthropology student at the University at Buffalo, you will explore how humans live, adapt and create meaning across time and ...

Our students become talented critical thinkers who grapple with the big questions about humanity, who understand archaeology, biological anthropology and cultural anthropology, and who apply this ...

Applying anthropology to business means asking the big questions. How does communication influence culture? How does language continue to evolve? And what are the hidden assumptions that shape our ...

Hildred Storey Geertz, professor of anthropology, emeritus, died peacefully at home in Princeton on Sept. 30. She was 95. Geertz, who specialized in the study of social organization in relation to ...

Anthropology is the holistic study of what it means to be human. Four subfields are surveyed: biological anthropology (the study of human evolution, diversity, and environmental adaptation), ...

Applying anthropology to business means asking the big questions. How does communication influence culture? How does language continue to evolve? And what are the hidden assumptions that shape our ...

Editor’s note: First-year students, prospective students (and some of their parents) wonder and worry how they will handle the academic transition from high school to college. In a series of stories, ...

Obama’s mother taught him to appreciate cultural diversity, and that’s a lesson we could all benefit from Stanley Ann Dunham Soetoro earned a Ph.D. in anthropology with an 800-page dissertation about ...

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Among the topical interests of the cultural anthropology faculty are gender and sexuality, culture and power, modernity and consumption, kinship and relatedness, tourism and popular culture, medical ...