Princeton University's Department of Anthropology specializes in interpretive approaches to contemporary cultures and their histories. Our framing of anthropological inquiry focuses on culture process and social change, the contested meanings of social action for participants and observers, the politics of the production of culture, cultural diversity and transcultural flows of knowledge and power. Faculty in the department work on cultures throughout...
The department offers students training in archaeology, cultural anthropology, demography, ecology, environmental anthropology, evolutionary theory, genetics, linguistic anthropology, medical anthropology, paleoanthropology and primatology.
Specialties and interests of individual faculty members include: ethnomedicine, infectious disease, human mortality, demography, ethics, ethnic identity, gender, genetic and cultural evolution, historical linguistics,...
The emphasis in the Graduate Program is on training candidates for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. This degree certifies that, in addition to having a sound knowledge of anthropology as a whole, the holder has been trained to do independent research at a professional level of competence in at least one of the major sub-disciplines of anthropology: archaeology, cultural anthropology, physical anthropology, or linguistic anthropology.
The department covers three subfields: archeology; sociocultural and linguistic anthropology; and physical anthropology. Archeology focuses on ritual complexes and writing, ceramic analysis, warfare, ancient civilizations, origins of agriculture, and museum studies. Sociocultural anthropology provides a range of courses: classics in ethnography and social theory, religion, myth and ritual, kinship and descent, historical anthropology, culture and...
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