This is a list of courses that satisfy the Biological Anthropology sub-field course requirements. Several courses are listed under more than one subfield. A course may fulfill one, and only one ...

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), ...

This track focuses on the role of language in social life. Students in the SAIL track will be introduced to a variety of theories and methods for analyzing language in diverse sociocultural, ...

Not everyone who takes Anthropology courses is planning to major in the discipline. Any member of the Anthropology faculty will be glad to talk to you informally about the field and our class ...

Archaeology Field School student Izzie Guerrero excavates a 9,000-year-old archaeological site at 12,600 feet in the Andes Mountains of Peru. (Randy Haas/UC Davis) When people think about anthropology ...

This essay explores an under-represented area of anthropological analysis: aroma, the least appreciated of all senses on the cultural sensorium. Aroma is the most difficult of the senses to represent ...

It’s been four years since I wrote for The Chronicle. Last anyone heard of me, I was a freshly minted Ph.D. in sociocultural anthropology, back from the circus (really) and leaving to take up an ...

Just months after the Anthropology Department voted not to renew sociocultural anthropology professor David Graeber’s contract, rumors are swirling that the department may lose as many as six ...

“Man’s best friend” refers to dogs of all shapes and sizes, but most dogs aren't man's friends. They're not even pets. Professor Margaret Wiener’s course "Canine Cultures," taught during UNC-Chapel ...