…branches of humanities as we know them, including literature, linguistics, anthropology and history. Wide in application but narrow in method, philology concerned itself with un-raveling layers of meaning in texts…
…drivers, and in retail stores. Students with degrees in, say, anthropology or ethnic studies often find it nearly impossible to get a good job, a problem that may afflict liberal…
When I was an undergraduate in the early 1970s at an elite liberal arts college, my anthropology professor assigned me as a paper topic, “Why do nearly all the students…
…anthropology, I have lived through the replacement of “consensus” on the idea that the makers of the so-called Clovis spear points, which go back 13,500 years, were the first Native…
…have to. (Sample disclaimer: “We are reading this work in spite of the author’s racist frameworks because his work was foundational to establishing the field of anthropology, and because I…
…videos. So far, there has been nary a peep from Brodhead’s office. However, an anthropology professor who heads the Duke Human Rights Center wrote an op-ed in the Raleigh News…
…trots out, as if representative, the “recent graduate in anthropology with a $100,000 loan.” He uses this example to bolster the conclusion that “few graduates have the ability to pay…
…and as provost of The King’s College in New York City (2005-2007). Dr. Wood was a tenured member of the Anthropology Department at Boston University, where he also held a…
…to understand. The model is participant-observer anthropology, not the Western missionary. Academic credit will be based on summarizing these experiences and contrasting them to what now occurs in the U.S….
…observational and experimental methods of the natural sciences, the social sciences–including anthropology, economics, political science and government, sociology, and psychology–examine and predict behavioral and organizational processes. Together, they help us…
…she writes, “I threw myself into super-Indianness, taking both of the Native-studies courses offered by the university’s anthropology department. I participated in a summer internship program for Native students and…
…anthropology degrees, and a Florida task force recently suggested that humanities majors should pay higher tuition. But this is central planning, not innovation. The beauty of a higher education market…
…as is often the case, may find their employer paying them to complete a B.A. It is something the 17-year old who wants to study anthropology should keep in mind. …
My sorry academic discipline, anthropology, has been in the news the last few weeks. Napoleon Chagnon broke his long silence by publishing a memoir, Noble Savages, about his work among…
…5000 years of patriarchy. We can do better. Lionel Tiger is Darwin professor of anthropology emeritus at Rutgers University and author of The Decline of Males and The Pursuit of Pleasure….
…egg-eating vegetarians. Is Anthropology 101 Real? But I digress. Terrestia, my hypothetical research group, shouldn’t stop with freshman American history. There are lots of other subjects in the college…
…New subjects of enquiry — gender, race and ethnicity — have developed. Never have historians been so influenced by the methodology and contributions of other disciplines, from anthropology to sociology. …
…amount students pay to the costs and benefits of various degrees. For example, if we have underutilized anthropology professors, the cost of educating one additional anthropology major may be close…
…in Economics, more than 5-1 in Political Science, 10-1 or more in History and English, and well over 20-1 in Sociology and Anthropology. Exacerbating the imbalance, whereas Democratic faculty hold…
…him in their USPS mailboxes and bewilderingly confounded that there’ll be no more. Who can replace him? No one. —————- Lionel Tiger is Darwin Professor of Anthropology Emeritus, Rutgers University….
…go on to graduate work in anthropology, economics, government, history, law, literature, philosophy, psychology, public policy, or sociology.” At the University of California, Berkeley, students study “Social Inequalities, American Cultures.”…
…sociology, anthropology, psychology, or environmental studies–by guidance counselors and proselytizing professors. There’s the graduate of the University of Oregon “with degrees in international studies and sociology and a double minor…
…of Susan Greenhalgh, “the newest professor of anthropology in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences” at Harvard. The profiler, Katie Koch of the Harvard Gazette staff, says Greenhalgh “seized the…
The Chronicle of Higher Education had a cover story last week by Peter Schmidt on Angana P. Chatterji and Richard Shapiro, two anthropology professors at the California Institute of Integral Studies…
…from departments of women’s and “gender” studies and is adapted by psychology; social work; sociology; anthropology; literature; schools of education; and the seminaries. At the prestigious universities, most of these…
…will secure jobs. The way to do this, he says, is to stop training students to get degrees in subjects such as psychology and anthropology–especially anthropology, a subject I’ve taught…
…for Social Research, May 1996, and her B.A.(Highest Distinction) in Psychology, with minors in Anthropology and Women’s Studies, May 1990. Her research and teaching interests include media and popular culture,…
English professors have long been straying far afield from literary studies, expanding into women’s studies, disability studies, ethnic studies, even fat studies. Recently they have migrated into animal studies. An…
…universities as the University of Las Vegas at Nevada struggle with whether to retain some departments in the liberal arts, including philosophy, anthropology, sociology, and women’s studies. It is easy…
Some readers of Minding the Campus may have noticed the little fracas at University of Iowa between College Republicans and anthropology/women’s studies professor Ellen Lewin. You can read about it…