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Anthropology is the study of humanity. [1] [2] [3] Described as "the most humanistic of sciences and the most scientific of the humanities", [4] it is considered to bridge the natural sciences, social sciences and humanities, [5] and draws upon a wide range of related fields.
His most recent book, Righteous Dopefiend, was co-authored with Jeff Schonberg and was published in June 2009 by the University of California Press in their “Public Anthropology” series. The book won the 2010 Anthony Leeds Prize for Urban Anthropology. [ 1 ]
For two thousand years, the disparate groups that now reside in Zomia (a mountainous region the size of Europe—2.5 million km 2 —that consists of portions of seven Asian countries) have fled the projects—slavery, conscription, taxes, corvée, epidemics, and warfare—of the nation state societies that surround them.
The Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland (RAI) is a long-established anthropological organisation, and Learned Society, with a global membership.. Its remit includes all the component fields of anthropology, such as biological anthropology, evolutionary anthropology, social anthropology, cultural anthropology, visual anthropology and medical anthropology, as well as sub ...
Fumiko Ikawa-Smith is a Japanese Canadian archaeologist.She is an emeritus professor [7] in the department of anthropology at McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.She trained as an anthropologist and prehistorian and specialises in the Early Palaeolithic cultures in East Asia, specifically Japan). [3]
She then studied anthropology at the University of Chicago with Clifford Geertz and obtained her Ph.D. in anthropology in 1970 for her fieldwork among the Sherpas in Nepal. [3] She has taught at Sarah Lawrence College , the University of Michigan , the University of California, Berkeley , Columbia University , and the University of California ...
Open Anthropology Cooperative was a social networking site for anthropologists founded by Keith Hart in June 2009 on the Ning. It acquired 8,000 members worldwide in its first decade and opened on Facebook, making a total membership of 22,000 members drawn from professional academics, postgraduates, undergraduates and amateur anthropologists.
A page from Hrdlička's book Physiological and medical observations among the Indians of southwestern United States and northern Mexico, with four photographs of Zuni Native Americans Aleš Hrdlička founded and became the first curator of physical anthropology of the U.S. National Museum, now the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of ...