Anthropology is a holistic, interdisciplinary science of humanity. It is the study of people--their origins, adaptations and ecology, distribution, customs, languages, and social and religious beliefs ...

medical anthropology; environmental anthropology; science and technology studies; anthropology of life and death; anthropology of war I am a critical feminist ethnographer with an interest in the ...

v. 1. The Putnam-Boas era. A natural history museum would be a good thing for the city. P.T. Barnum's American Museum ; The Paleozoic Museum ; The Lyceum of Natural History ; The founding of the ...

Researchers from UC Santa Cruz received a subaward on the newly announced National Science Foundation (NSF) Center for Braiding Indigenous Knowledges and Science, a five-year, $30 million ...

Based on panels and policy forums held at the 2007 American Anthropological Association and 2007 Society for Applied Anthropology meetings. Introduction, Anthropology and climate change / Susan A.

Forensic anthropologists face mental health risks due to chronic exposure to violent death. Vicarious trauma and burnout can arise even without direct experience of violence.

Areas of regional expertise include Latin America and the Caribbean, Native America, Southeast Asia, Japan, Tibet and the Himalayas, Papua New Guinea, East Africa, and Europe. Among the topical ...

Many people today simply assume that our evolution has quietly ended with the development of the modern human. It's easy to think that medicine, science, and modern living have made us "perfect" or ...

Looking at human history, there is a scene where beings who once walked on four legs suddenly stood upright. Scholars evaluate this change as a decisive turning point that made humans human. For a ...