A person of big ideas and an even bigger humanistic imagination," Obeyesekere joined Princeton’s faculty in 1980 and ...

For this reason, anthropologists have recently directed increased attention ... scientists and policy makers to differentiate between effects that are local and cultural, and those that are universal, ...

Among the topical interests of the faculty are: In addition, the cultural anthropology faculty share an interest in globalization, using ethnographic skills to understand the contemporaneous but ...

It wasn’t the size of human brains that distinguished people from apes, he theorized, but the way they were organized. He found a creative way to prove it.

Anthropology is the scientific study of the origin, the behavior, and the physical, social, and cultural development of humans. Forensic anthropologists are trained physical anthropologists who ...

The Native American Studies program hosted Dr. Victor Montejo as a part of the department’s Anthony Aveni Lecture Series on Thursday, April 3. Montejo explored the central idea of his most recent work ...