There, Hurston met Franz Boas, known as the founder of modern American anthropology, who publicly rejected entrenched anthropological racist theories about Black people. Impressed by Hurston’s ...

Anthropologists apply knowledge gleaned from other sciences in pursuing this end. From the American Anthropological Association website: In the community of anthropologists in the United States ...

MADISON, Wis. — Schuyler Jones, a globe-trotting American anthropologist and adventurer whose exploits drew comparisons to iconic movie character Indiana Jones, has died. He was 94. Jones’ ste ...

(photo credit: YONATAN SINDEL/FLASH90) In a widely predicted move, the American Anthropological Association (AAA) has now joined the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) in adopting a boycott of ...

The resolution calls for a ban on the American Anthropological Association (AAA) from working with Israeli universities, including hosting conferences and conducting joint programming.

Obeyesekere published more than 70 articles and reviews in publications including American Anthropologist, The Journal of Asian Studies, Transcultural Psychiatric Research Review, American Ethnologist ...

In a joint statement on Thursday, the two sponsors of the conference, the American Anthropological Association and the Canadian Anthropology Society, said that they wanted to protect the ...

But that story’s not true, according to research by University of Delaware anthropology professor Sarah Lacy, which was recently published in Scientific American and in two papers in the journal ...