George W. Stocking Jr., a groundbreaking historian of the social sciences, focused anthropology’s culturally observant eye back on its own past, tracing the field’s development on two continents.

Anthropologists might have finally cracked one of the lingering mysteries surrounding the Teotihuacan civilization. After ...

Introduction / Henrika Kuklick -- Anthropology before anthropology / Harry Liebersohn -- North American traditions in anthropology : the historiographic baseline / Regna Darnell -- The British ...

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), ...

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MEXICO CITY (AP) — The woman long blamed for her role in the fall of the Aztec empire in 1521 is getting a modern makeover.

Original Story found at: Anthropology professor’s research aims to illuminate the deep history of Native societies in the Chesapeake | Arts & Sciences | William & Mary As a specialist in the ...

Who’s better suited to teach about American institutions and ideals: cultural anthropologists or historians of U.S. history? That question is at the heart of a debate about a general education ...