What is culture and how does it affect our understanding of the world and the ways we behave? How do cultural anthropologists approach the study of human societies and what methods do they use to do ...

Look at human behavior through local, national and international lenses with courses offered by the Department of Sociology and Anthropology. Undergraduate courses cover topics across the spectrum, ...

Anthropology is a broad field dealing with the study of human societies and their cultures and development. It encompasses archaeology, as well as ethnography and up-close study of different cultures.

When budget woes threatened faculty reductions in the anthropology department at Kansas State University, one professor decided to address the shortfall by teaching differently. His latest teaching ...

Many anthropologists avoid teaching introductory courses. Yet those courses are crucial to the discipline for several reasons. First, they meet the general-education requirements of many colleges and ...

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A cross-cultural study of selected topics in the anthropology of ritual and religion including rites of passage, witchcraft, sorcery, myth, magic, spirits, death, symbols, ancestors, altered states of ...

Anthropology is the holistic study of what it means to be human. Four subfields are surveyed: biological anthropology (the study of human evolution, diversity, and environmental adaptation), ...