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News

Doctoral Student Summer Steenberg on Women and War
Cultural Anthropology invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in the area of medical anthropology, beginning July 1, 2023.
Anne-Maria Makhulu among 2022 recipients of the Trinity College of Arts & Sciences Teaching Awards
Cultural Anthropology Ph.D Ayşe Altinay Wins Few-Glasson Alumni Award

Events

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Messy Conversations for Restorative Justice: Towards Anticolonial, Anti-White Supremacist Anthropology Graduate Training

1:30 pm 3:00 pm

Friedl 225

Oct Oct

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The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide

5:30 pm 7:00 pm

East Duke 209

Oct

21 Nancy Yunhwa Rao (Rutgers): "Defining Tunes of the Chinese Diaspora"

4:00 pm

Rubenstein Library Carpenter Conference Room 249

Nov

4 Art, Music and Defense of the Territory in the Amazon: The Protagonism of Indigenous Women

4:00 pm

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Undergraduate Programs

Our programs give students powerful tools for making sense of society and culture, and an appreciation of both different cultures and of hierarchies and inequality in the 21st century world.

We offer:

Bachelor of Arts in Cultural Anthropology
Interdepartmental Major
Minor in Cultural Anthropology

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Featured Courses

CULANTH 240

Love and Loneliness: What's Happening to Relationships in the Twenty-First Century?

Long-standing ties to other—whether of kinship, marriage, or community—have long been considered to be fundamental to the human condition. But in an age of dissipated and shifting social worlds, the… read more about Love and Loneliness: What's Happening to Relationships in the Twenty-First Century? »

CULANTH 207

Anthropology of Sports

The role of sports in different cultures in the contemporary world. Dynamics of race, gender, sexuality, fantasy and desire, mythmaking and the culture of celebrity, commercial and mass media. read more about Anthropology of Sports »

Graduate Programs

Our Ph.D. program prepares you to meld grounded field research with theoretical sophistication in doing anthropology sensitive to the challenges and complexities of making sense of human experience. You will receive a strong training in theory as well as in contemporary research methods and proposal writing.

We also offer an M.A. "on the way" option.