Anthropology Prof. Shalini Shankar is both a scholar with a deep interest in her research of sociocultural anthropology and a guide for students in her classrooms. Shankar published two books about ...

Dennison J. Nash of Mansfield Center, Conn., died after a brief illness on March 20. He was 87. Nash was born on July 2, 1924 in East Orange, N.J., the only child of Ray and Marie Nash. He served as a ...

Below is an example of a four-year plan of a College of General Studies student pursuing a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology with a Specialization in Sociocultural Anthropology at the College of Arts ...

Conservation and utilization for traditional villages have shifted from individual-village to integrated regional planning. However, insufficient understanding of the spatial heritage connections ...

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, ...

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 ...

Relationships between people-- and people and things-- are fundamental to human embodiment, identity, and political and social alignment, shaping experiences of inclusion and exclusion. How do ...

I am a researcher and educator doing my doctoral studies at UMass Amherst in Sociocultural Anthropology. I study Belarusian communities in Europe. I am interested in how elderly and people with ...

For additional information, please visit the Department of Anthropology website. Anthropology is the study of all aspects of human life, including our biological evolution and genetics, primate and ...

When people think about anthropology graduates at work, one character from an ’80s movie often comes to mind. “A lot of people equate anthropology with Indiana Jones,” said Kelli Sholer, undergraduate ...