The Department of Anthropology faculty carry out research with many questions in mind. The categories below suggest many of their current research interests and expertise.
Analytical Methods & Ethics
Archaeology
Linguistic Anthropology
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Analytical Methods & Ethics
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Anthropology of Organizations
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Art, Aesthetics & Museums
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(Post) Colonialism, Settler Societies, & Subaltern Identities
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Cultural and Linguistic Property & Preservation and Ethics
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Digital Projects
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Discourse Analysis, Oral Literature, Narrative & Memory
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Ecology, Environment & Climate
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Food
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Globalization & Development
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Hierarchy, Power & Violence
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Historical Anthropology, Archaeology, Linguistics
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History of Anthropology & Anthropological Knowledge
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Journals
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Kinship, Family, Marriage, & Gender
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Knowlege, Empathy, Ethnographic Writing & Ethics
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Language, Cognition & Classification
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Language Ideology
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Legal Anthropology & Culture and (Trans)National Law
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Medicine & Science and Technology
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Nation (State), Citizenship & Transnationalism
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Political Economy: Property and Exchange & Corporations
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Race, Ethnicity & Identity
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Religion
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Symbolic Anthropology
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Anthropology of Organizations
Archaeology
Socio-Cultural
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Art, Aesthetics & Museums
Archaeology
Linguistic Anthropology
Socio-Cultural
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Archaeology
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Jeffrey Hantman (indigenous Native American ideas of land, identity, history, power in relation to post/colonial culture, agency)
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Adria Laviolette (Swahili Coast)
Socio-Cultural
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Ravindra Khare (India/West, colonialism, globalization, subaltern voices and representations)
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Cultural and Linguistic Property & Preservation and Ethics
Archaeology
Linguistic Anthropology
Socio-Cultural
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Digital Projects
Archaeology
Linguistic Anthropology
Socio-Cultural
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Discourse Analysis, Oral Literature, Narrative & Memory
Archaeology
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Jeffrey Hantman (post/colonial state policy & official histories and commemorative events and their effects on Native Americans, erasure of names, territories, identities, authenticity)
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Adria Laviolette (Islamic)
Linguistic Anthropology
Socio-Cultural
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Ecology, Environment & Climate
Linguistic Anthropology
Socio-Cultural
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Frederick Damon (Melanesia & the Asias, and the modern world)
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Kath Weston (political ecology, water politics, Andaman/Nicobar disaster)
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Food
Socio-Cultural
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Globalization & Development
Socio-Cultural
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Hierarchy, Power & Violence
Archaeology
Socio-Cultural
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Historical Anthropology, Archaeology, Linguistics
Linguistic Anthropology
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Eve Danziger (historical linguistics, stylistic change in language and archaeology, Mayan linguistic prehistory)
Socio-Cultural
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History of Anthropology & Anthropological Knowledge
Archaeology
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Stephen Plog (role of museums in history of the discipline, archives, late 19thc. archaeology)
Linguistic Anthropology
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Lise Dobrin (Mead, Fortune, creation of culture in research encounter, ethics)
Socio-Cultural
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Ira Bashkow (Schneider, Mead, Fortune, how constructed relations with local people, exchange, epistemological issues, how build in role of informants into anthropological encounters)
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Richard Handler (Anthropological theory, anthropology as cultural criticism relating to applied anthropology)
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Ravindra Khare (Dumont, McKim Marriott, Milton Singer, MN Srinivas, Mary Douglas...view and from the field, India/West)
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Susan McKinnon (history of kinship studies, Morgan, Maine, Levi-Strauss, Evans-Pritchard, evolutionary psychology)
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George Mentore
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Kath Weston (Radcliffe-Brown, Andaman/Nicobars)
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Archaeology
Socio-Cultural
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Kinship, Family, Marriage, & Gender
Linguistic Anthropology
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Eve Danziger (kinship vocabulary, historical linguistics of Maya kin terms, kinship and spatial positioning of person)
Socio-Cultural
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Allison Alexy (intimacy, divorce, gender, kinship and citizenship/nation-state)
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Frederick Damon (alliance and production)
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Susan McKinnon (kinship theory as cultural artifact, marriage, exchange, hierarchy, nation and kinship, new reproductive technologies, kinship and corporations)
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John Shepherd (marriage, mortality, fertility, Chinese marriage, family, community history)
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Roy Wagner (kinship theory, matriliny)
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Kath Weston (circulation/generation in finance/kinship, kinship and sexuality)
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Knowlege, Empathy, Ethnographic Writing & Ethics
Linguistic Anthropology
Socio-Cultural
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Language, Cognition & Classification
Linguistic Anthropology
Socio-Cultural
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Language Ideology
Linguistic Anthropology
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Eve Danziger (truth, lies, intention, sincerity, authenticity, fakery, attitudes about reality)
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Legal Anthropology & Culture and (Trans)National Law
Linguistic Anthropology
Socio-Cultural
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Allison Alexy (kinship and citizenship, transnational legal conflicts)
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Medicine & Science and Technology
Linguistic Anthropology
Socio-Cultural
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Frederick Damon (technology, time, culture)
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Gertrude Fraser (prostate, info, risk, numeracy)
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Susan McKinnon (science studies, new reproductive technologies, critique of evolutionary psychology)
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John Shepherd (mortality, disease, epidemiology, colonialism and public health, premodern mortality)
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Kath Weston (surveillance/transparency, Asian technoscience)
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Nation (State), Citizenship & Transnationalism
Archaeology
Socio-Cultural
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Political Economy: Property and Exchange & Corporations
Linguistic Anthropology
Socio-Cultural
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Ira Bashkow (land ownership, privatization, reform, language of exchange, corporate ownership)
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Frederick Damon (exchange and production systems, historical ecology, environment and climate)
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Susan McKinnon (kinship, marriage, property, family corporations, hierarchy and exchange)
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Peter Metcalf (regional systems, Southeast Asia)
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Kath Weston (capitalism, anthropology of finance, rethinking magic of finance)
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Race, Ethnicity & Identity
Socio-Cultural
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Religion
Archaeology
Linguistic Anthropology
Socio-Cultural
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Symbolic Anthropology
Socio-Cultural
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