Anthropology HBA HBSc

Nothing human is alien to anthropology. Indeed, of the many disciplines that concern themselves with humans, only anthropology seeks to understand the whole panorama of human existence -- in geographic space and evolutionary time -- through comparative and holistic study. The programs focus on the four traditional subfields of anthropology: biological, archaeological, socio-cultural and linguistic. We also have strengths in forensic anthropology (which includes human biology, archaeology and ethnohistory). The faculty studies a broad array of topics that range from the exploration of ancient pyrotechnologies in South Asia to the study of rainmaking, gender and ritual in Tanzania; from the structures of social interaction and the co-ordination of language, gesture and gaze in the Caribbean to the use of plants in ancient China; from information in Iroquoian pottery to signatures and citizenship in contemporary India; from the relationship between genetics and human evolution to research related to crime scene investigation.