A new long-range plan for the American Anthropological Association that omits the word “science” from the organization's vision for its future has exposed fissures in the discipline. The plan, adopted ...

My doctoral degree is in anthropology (University of Rochester) and for 17 years I taught anthropology at Boston University, where I was tenured and also served in the university administration. My ...

World Anthropology Day, observed every third Thursday of February, celebrates the field and the incredible people in it. Anthropology is essentially "the science of humanity," covering a wide range of ...

Is anthropology a science? Is it a coherent discipline at all? Those questions are as old as the field itself. They were taken up by Franz Boas in a 1904 lecture and by Clifford Geertz in a 2002 essay ...

Margaret Mead, between 1930 and 1950. (Library of Congress; Edward Lynch, World-Telegram staff photographer) Science wars are coming back: and this time, they are being promoted by a combination of ...

Is anthropology on its way out? According to Ann Gibbons, writing in Science today, the field has suffered some serious setbacks this year. She writes: In the fall of 2011, Florida Governor Rick Scott ...

Natural sciences research on the dynamics of climate change has overshadowed social scientists' work to understand its human dimensions. The scientific basis of anthropogenic climate change is by now ...

A collection of bones from Casablanca holds important new clues to the origins of modern humans and Neanderthals.

The battle of the anthropologists those who hew closely to scientific tradition versus those who take a more humanistic approach flared again Monday, as the organization that represents both sides ...

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