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 ...

On The Life of Her Mind, Mia Wood talks with Dr. Suanna Crowley on applied anthropology, science careers, and a viral discovery campaign reaching billions.

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 ...

When paleoanthropologists finally freed the skeleton called Little Foot from its stone prison in South Africa, they believed they were meeting an old acquaintance. Instead, they may have uncovered a ...

World Anthropology Day is observed annually to celebrate the study of humanity and cultures. The day highlights anthropology's role in promoting empathy, social justice, and informed global decisions.

Anthropology’s problem with science is a quite different one, and can be traced to the influence of postmodernism on the study of culture, and a confounding of political attempts to better the lot of ...

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 ...

Indians who drifted from their pueblos to Santa Fe last week for their September fiesta and spree found a new building in that capital. Resident Indians, who work as servants and guides, explained ...

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 ...