Anthropology
Browse by:
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2144/1229
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.
News
Department chair: Tom Barfield
Campus address: 232 Bay State Road
Phone: 617-353-2195
Fax: 617-353-2610
Website: www.bu.edu/anthrop
All materials in OpenBU are subject to Title 17 of the U.S. Code.
Collections in this community
Recently Added
-
Are male orangutans a threat to infants? Evidence of mother-offspring counter strategies to infanticide in Bornean orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus wurmbii)
(Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2019-06)Sexually selected infanticide by males is widespread in primates. Female primates employ a variety of strategies to reduce infanticide risk. While infanticide has never been directly observed in wild orangutans (Pongo ... -
The scale, governance, and sustainability of central places in pre-Hispanic Mesoamerica
(Springer, 2019-08-02)Examinations of the variation and relative successes or failures of past large-scale societies have long involved attempts to reconcile efforts at generalization and the identification of specific factors with explanatory ... -
Fruit scent and observer colour vision shape food-selection strategies in wild capuchin monkeys
(2019-06-03)The senses play critical roles in helping animals evaluate foods, including fruits that can change both in colour and scent during ripening to attract frugivores. Although numerous studies have assessed the impact of colour ... -
Troubling love: gender, class, and sideshadowing the "happy family" in Vietnam
(WILEY, 2017-12-01)Though socially and politically different, Vietnam's Confucian, colonial, socialist, and marketizing regimes share a common master narrative of ideal women as the moral bedrock of their nation: virtuous, self‐sacrificing ... -
The impact of changing religious practices on orangutan fieldwork and conservation in West Kalimantan (Borneo), Indonesia
(2018-04-13)Primate field projects are often under the direction of foreign researchers, who live and work alongside members of local communities. Here we discuss the impact of religion on orangutan research and conservation in Gunung ... -
Exploring space, economy, and interregional Interaction at a second-millennium B.C.E. citadel in central western Anatolia: 2014-2017 research at Kaymakçı
(Archaeological Institute of America, 2018-10)Current understandings of the archaeology of second-millennium B.C.E. central western Anatolia are enriched by ongoing research at Kaymakçı, located in the Marmara Lake basin of the middle Gediz River valley in western ... -
Publishing in Ethnobiology Letters in 2018
(2018)Ethnobiology Letters was launched in 2010 with the goal of providing a free-to-publish, open-access, online venue for short peer-reviewed articles in ethnobiology (Wolverton et al. 2010). Over the course of ... -
Too educated for love? Women and the marriage market in Indonesia
(CURA/LUCE Religion and World Affairs Series, 2018)Indonesia is among the shrinking number of Asian countries demographers identify as following a pattern of “universal marriage,” defined as a country in which fewer than 4% of women over the age of 40 have never married ... -
New research at Teotihuacan’s Tlajinga district, 2012–2015
(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2019)Teotihuacan's Tlajinga district is a cluster of neighborhoods on the southern periphery of the city best known for earlier investigations at Compound 33:S3W1. New research includes excavations at two other apartment compounds ... -
Estudio de conjuntos departamentales y organización de barrios utilizando sensores remotos y geofísica en el distrito de Tlajinga, Teotihuacan
(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2019)RESUMEN: Estudios geofísicos, técnicas de sensores remotos y realización de mapas topográficos con GPS diferencial y vehículos aéreos no tripulados (VANT) han proporcionado una mejor comprensión de la organización espacial ...
RSS 1.0