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Stanford anthropologist Tanya Luhrmann found that voice-hearing experiences of people with serious psychotic disorders are shaped by local culture – in the United States, the voices are harsh and threatening; in Africa and India, they are more…

A new study co-authored by Anthropology Professor Lisa Curran identifies new risks associated with oil palm cultivation in Borneo, Indonesia. The new study, which was published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, found that…

Duana Fullwiley's book The Enculturated Gene: Sickle Cell Health Politics and Biological Difference in West Africa (Princeton University Press, 2011) has been awarded The Robert B Textor and Family Prize for Excellence in Anticipatory…

Stanford campus archaeologist Laura Jones, who earned a master's degree (1985) and a doctorate (1991) in material culture and applied anthropology studies at Stanford University, is one of this year's Amy J. Blue Award winners. For more…

Kabir Tambar’s new book examines debates about the politics of pluralism in Turkey. The book focuses on Turkey’s Alevi community in order to unpack wider contemporary debates about the political pasts and futures of citizenship. In this interview…

Alexa Hagerty, an Anthropology 3rd year PhD student, was recently selected as the winner of the 2014 Elsie Clews Parsons Prize from the American Ethnological Society (AES). Her paper, titled "Speak Softly to the Dead: The Uses of Enchantment in…

Tanya Luhrmann, the Howard H. and Jesse T. Watkins University Professor, has been awarded the Grawemeyer Award in Religion from the University of Louisville for the ideas set forth in her 2012 book, “When God Talks Back: Understanding the…

Dr. Krish Seetah, an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology, sought to make his ANTHRO 119 course, Zooarchaeology: An Introduction to Faunal Remains, more engaging for students. Inspired by his personal use of technology, Prof.…

Jain’s new book, Malignant: How Cancer Becomes Us (University of California Press, 2013), aims to better understand American life and culture through cancer. Nearly half of all Americans will be diagnosed in their lifetimes with an invasive…

Department of Anthropology Chair and Professor James Ferguson recently published two articles on social and political anthropology in South Africa. The first article, titled How to Do Things with Land: A Distributive Perspective on Rural…