Cultural Anthropology
Areas of regional expertise include Latin America and the Caribbean, Native America, Atlantic Canada and the Arctic, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Tibet, East Africa, Polynesia, and Eastern Europe. Among the topical interests of the faculty are:
- gender and sexuality
- culture and power
- modernity and consumption
- tourism and popular culture
- religion and ritual
- matrilineal societies
- human ecology
- pastoralism
- public anthropology
- nationalism and ethnic identity
- racial constructs
- post-colonialism
- history and memory
Profiled Faculty Accepting Students
Carla Jones
Professor Jones’ primary research situates theoretical questions about gender, class and subjectivity in the context of contemporary urban Indonesia.
Carole McGranahan
Professor McGranahan is a cultural anthropologist and historian specializing in contemporary Tibet.
