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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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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. Not… read more »

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 »

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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.

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Books by Our Faculty
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Recent Faculty Books

Being Dead Otherwise
Being Dead Otherwise
Anne Allison
Capoeira Connections: A Memoir in Motion
Capoeira Connections: A Memoir in Motion
Katya Wesolowski
The Mother's Wheel
The Mother's Wheel
Robin Kirk
White Saviorism and Popular Culture
White Saviorism and Popular Culture
Kathryn Mathers
The Bond (Bond Trilogy)
The Bond (Bond Trilogy)
Robin Kirk
Lifelines: The Traffic of Trauma
Lifelines: The Traffic of Trauma
Harris Solomon
Righting Wrongs: 20 Human Rights Heroes Around the World
Righting Wrongs: 20 Human Rights Heroes Around the World
Robin Kirk
The Hive Queen (Bond Trilogy)
The Hive Queen (Bond Trilogy)
Robin Kirk
Screen Shots: State Violence on Camera in Israel and Palestine
Screen Shots: State Violence on Camera in Israel and Palestine
Rebecca L. Stein
The Politics of Decolonial Investigations (on Decoloniality)
The Politics of Decolonial Investigations (on Decoloniality)
Walter Mignolo
Hydropolitics: The Itaipu Dam, Sovereignty, and the Engineering of Modern South America
Hydropolitics: The Itaipu Dam, Sovereignty, and the Engineering of Modern South America
Christine Folch
Going Over Home: A Search for Rural Justice in an Unsettled Land
Going Over Home: A Search for Rural Justice in an Unsettled Land
Charles Thompson Jr.
The Fixer: Visa Lottery Chronicles
The Fixer: Visa Lottery Chronicles
Charles Piot
The Shining Path: Love, Madness, and Revolution in the Andes
The Shining Path: Love, Madness, and Revolution in the Andes
Orin Starn (co-author)
Advances in Culture Theory from Psychological Anthropology
Advances in Culture Theory from Psychological Anthropology
Naomi Quinn (editor)
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