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Through fieldwork, laboratory work, and close study, faculty in the Department of Anthropology guide students in the examination and analysis of the global varieties of human thought and activity, as well as the evolutionary origins of the human biology. Anthropologists at BU are experts in issues relating to religion in the modern world, the effects of religion on politics and society, grassroots civil societies, democratic transitions, and evolutionary biology. The department offers two tracks of study between social anthropology and biological anthropology.
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Department chair: Tom Barfield
Campus address: 232 Bay State Road
Phone: 617-353-2195
Fax: 617-353-2610
Website: www.bu.edu/anthrop
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Field collection and preservation of urine in orangutans and chimpanzees
(1996)Disease is recognized as a critical factor that can affect primate behavior, yet few methods allow for the quantification of disease states in wild primates. This paper reports on the use of urinary test strips to detect ... -
Orangutans in perspective: Forced copulations and female mating resistance
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Genetic variation and gene expression across multiple tissues and developmental stages in a nonhuman primate
(2017-12)By analyzing multitissue gene expression and genome-wide genetic variation data in samples from a vervet monkey pedigree, we generated a transcriptome resource and produced the first catalog of expression quantitative trait ... -
Ancient hybridization and strong adaptation to viruses across African vervet monkey populations
(2017-12)Vervet monkeys are among the most widely distributed nonhuman primates, show considerable phenotypic diversity, and have long been an important biomedical model for a variety of human diseases and in vaccine research. Using ... -
The Islamic State as an empire of nostalgia
(2016-01-10)Primary empires were the product of internal development and self-sustaining through the exploitation of their own resources, but there were also historically a large number of “shadow empires.” These were imperial polities ... -
Jews, Jesus, and the problem of postcolonial French identity
(DUKE UNIV PRESS, 2017-09-01)In 2004 a French Jewish student union ran an ad against anti-Semitism using defaced images of Jesus and Mary. Denounced by an antiracist organization affiliated with Jewish interests, the ad was immediately pulled. Why? ... -
Historicity, peoplehood, and politics: Holocaust talk in 21st century France
Drawing on ethnographic data from the mid-2000s as well as accounts from French Jewish newspapers and magazines from the 1980s on, this paper traces the emergence of new French Jewish institutional narratives linking North ... -
Book review – The Pathan Unarmed
(Bloomsbury Pakistan, 2017-01-20)
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