In popular culture, anthropologists often star as the heroines and heroes of movies; portrayed as intrepid loners working in remote, inhospitable environments to bring us the lost secrets of hidden ...

Anthropologists have traditionally had a pretty wonkish reputation, earnestly taking field notes while interviewing a tribal chief or lecturing in some college classroom about the intricacies of ...

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), ...

By: Devaki Vadakepat MenonOn Feb 25 this year, the academic world quietly marked the 89th death anniversary of a man whose name is recognized in the h.

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 ...

Anthropology is a social science that is concerned with understanding culture through participatory observation, or ethnography: cultural immersion in the social worlds being studied. This research ...