Medical anthropologist Emily Mendenhall, Professor in the Science, Technology, and International Affairs Program in the Edmund A Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University in Washington, ...

On quiet nights in the forests of eastern Paraguay, songs drift through the air. But none of them are lullabies to comfort crying babies and no one gathers to dance. That unusual behavior has upended ...

During a renovation project, workers dug for soil samples and stumbled upon a century-old coffin under the school. Take a ...

Humans learn to dance and sing lullabies, and people then “invent, tweak and culturally transmit” such behaviors, the ...

Anthropology is the study of humans, their close relatives and their cultural environment. Subfields of anthropology deal with hominin evolution and the comparative study of extant and past cultures.

This workshop and exhibition explore Buddhist influences in material culture, embodied practices and everyday experiences ...

Dr. Stephanie Poindexter is a biological anthropologist at the University of Buffalo specializing in primatology.

Located within the sprawling Chapultepec Forest, the Museo Nacional de Antropología (National Museum of Anthropology) showcases artifacts from Mexico's pre-Columbian era, dating from about 100 B ...

Most theses for this department depend upon fieldwork, in combination with library research. An anthropology thesis can investigate virtually anything. A good thesis can begin with a student’s ...