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Events

Sep Sep

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The Long Shadow of Cecil John Rhodes

1:30 pm 3:00 pm

Virtual

Oct Oct

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Jennifer Hsieh: "Hearing Like a State: Office Work and Noise Control in a Post-Authoritarian Bureaucracy"

4:00 pm 5:30 pm

Online

Oct Oct

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Archives, Multimodality, and Decolonizing Anthropology

1:30 pm 3:00 pm

Friedl 225 [Map]

Nov Nov

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Yana Stoinova: "Sonorous Worlds: Musical Enchantment in Venezuela"

4:00 pm 5:30 pm

Online

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 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 »

CULANTH 107

Introduction to Sustainable Development

Readings and case studies in sustainable development, social entrepreneurship, and other attempts to address natural resource limitations, economic inequality, and social justice. Focuses on the… read more about Introduction to Sustainable Development »

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? »

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.