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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…
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Congratulations to Anthropology Lecturer Kathleen Coll, who has been selected as a winner to Stanford's 2013 Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Prize. The award will be presented on Friday evening, June 14th, at the Bing Performing Arts Center at the annual…
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Anthropology Junior Anna Ntiriwah-Asare is one of ten undergrads to be honored with 2013 Deans' Awards for Academic Achievement. The award, inaugurated in Spring 1988, is given each year to between five and ten extraordinary undergraduate…
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Free to the public and running until June 30, City Beneath the City offers a glimpse into one of the largest Chinese communities in America in the 19th century. The Exhibit displays fragments of a lost city – wooden toothbrushes and combs,…
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Congratulations to Duana Fullwiley, whose book The Enculturated Gene: Sickle Cell Health Politics and Biological Difference in West Africa , has won the Amaury Talbot Prize for most valuable work of African anthropology. The Royal Anthropological…
The Society for American Archaeology (SAA) has named Anthropology Professor Lynn Meskell and Professor Krish Seetah, the recipients of its 2019's Book Awards. Professor Meskell to receive the Book Award in the Popular category for her book…
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Ian Hodder was recently awarded The 2016 Fyssen Foundation International Scientific Prize for his lifetime work in archaeology.
As a prehistoric archaeologist, Ian has been exploring material culture and its effects on social and human…