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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A PERUSAL of this book will convince most people that the terminology and classification of the subject-matter of anthropology is at present in a state of almost hopeless confusion. In England, early ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cecilia is a freelance writer, content marketing strategist and author covering education, technology and energy. She is a current contributor to the Forbes Advisor education vertical and holds a ...

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 ...

Editorial Note: We earn a commission from partner links on Forbes Advisor. Commissions do not affect our editors' opinions or evaluations. Anthropology is a broad field dealing with the study of human ...

You probably haven’t heard of Frederick Starr. Like his contemporary Franz Boas, Starr was an anthropologist coming to fame while the discipline of anthropology was still being formed. Throughout his ...