Dr. Paul Warner disclosed his theory after a meeting with Egypt's Minister for Tourism and Antiquities, Ahmed Issa, on ...

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

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 ...

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.

By Clay Risen Gananath Obeyesekere, an anthropologist whose long career and wide-ranging social insights — which drew on Hindu texts, Freudian psychoanalysis and Christian mysticism — made him ...

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.