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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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Birth canal shape and fetal rotation in Australopithecus and Neandertals
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Governance strategies in precolonial central Mexico
Among the Indigenous polities of precolonial Mesoamerica, the Aztec empire, headed by a confederation of three city-states, was the largest recorded and remains the best understood, due to its chronicling in Spanish and ... -
Bringing multilateralism back in: ending the war in Afghanistan is not a one-nation job
(USIP Afghan Peace Process Issues Paper, 2021-03-15)The United States’ unilateral deal with the Taliban in February 2020 needs to be expanded if it is to achieve success. Because the war in Afghanistan was never purely a domestic one, only a multilateral international ... -
Community engagement zine for youth in Mexico
Self-published zine done in collaboration with Mexican artists and text creators, funded by Whiting Foundation Public Engagement Grant, aimed at community engagement around Teotihuacan archaeological site. -
Overnight urbanization and changing spirits: disturbed ecosystems in Southern Jiangsu
(University of Chicago Press, 2021-11-09)Three Chinese cases involving ghost attacks, the increase of spirit mediums, and innovations in the forms and objects of temple worship suggest how nonequilibrium ecology, broadly conceived, can clarify processes of urban ... -
Censorship, foreclosure, and the three deaths of Fengzhen
(HAU-N.E.T, 2021-11-10)This article draws on Judith Butler’s distinction between censorship and foreclosure, and on Saidiya Hartman’s work about how to narrate the silences of the slave trade, to explore two photographs. The first is a dismembered ... -
Archaeological perspectives on the Spanish-Aztec War on its quincentennial
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New perspectives on migration into the Tlajinga district of Teotihuacan: a dual-isotope approach
The city of Teotihuacan (AD 1–550) was a major multiethnic urban center that attracted migrants from as far away as west Mexico and the Maya region. Past research in the Tlajinga district at Teotihuacan using oxygen isotopes ...
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