IKNS lecturer Jessica Malloy shares insights into her new course, which equips students with ethnographic tools to better ...

Cecilia is a freelance writer, content marketing strategist and author covering education, technology and energy. She is a current contributor to the Forbes Advisor education vertical and holds a ...

Social and cultural anthropology examines the myriad ways in which human societies organise themselves, create meaning, and negotiate change. It encompasses the study of social institutions, rituals, ...

Cecilia is a freelance writer, content marketing strategist and author covering education, technology and energy. She is a current contributor to the Forbes Advisor education vertical and holds a ...

Leo A. Despres, Michael Banton, John W. Bennett, Ronald Cohen, Munro S. Edmonson, Karel Fojtik, P. C. W. Gutkind, Marvin Harris and Norman E. Whitten Jr. In this essay I have taken issue with the view ...

Robert Alan LeVine (1932–2023) was one of the founders or an early advocate of psychological anthropology, a social science discipline at the intersection of socio-cultural anthropology, psychology, ...

Bates is welcoming a large group of new faculty this year. Seventeen tenured or tenure-track professors will join the college ...

Editor’s note: First-year students, prospective students (and some of their parents) wonder and worry how they will handle the academic transition from high school to college. In a series of stories, ...

Reg. #15122 Dr. Irene Ketonen-Keating This class is a general introduction to the field of anthropology, the study of humanity. It is designed to pique your interest in the broad diversity of human ...

If the presidential race has truly become a “culture war” (a claim that many pundits have been making since Sarah Palin’s emergence on the national scene), why not ask an anthropologist to weigh in, ...

Anthropology of Motherhood: Culture of Care is described as “an art exhibition with a focus on Deaf and Disability culture and its synchronicity with the culture of care and maternal feminism.” The ...