Anthropology
- A cohesive conservation plan protecting the Vietnamese environment—and primates—is now signed legislation, in part due to efforts of a ϳԹ anthropologist.
- Social behaviors and microbiome diversity might be interconnected, according to new research by a ϳԹ anthropologist.
- Both Mead’s conservative critics—some of whom went so far as to claim she “caused” the moral degradation of America—and liberal supporters—who tend to see Mead as a feminist icon—have misunderstood her views on these issues, finds Paul Shankman.
- Professors of anthropology and linguistics argue that as both candidate and president, the president has tapped into what they call “nostalgic racism”—nostalgia for the pre-civil-rights, industrial-welfare-state America of the 1950s.
- An expert on the American evangelical relationship with God will discuss her scholarly work this week on the ϳԹ campus.
- Ancient DNA used to track the exodus of Pueblo people from Colorado's Mesa Verde region in the late 13th century indicates many wound up in the northern Rio Grande area of New Mexico.
- The first question in conservation is whether to focus on conserving species or habitat. Anthropologist Joanna Lambert has proposed conservation tactics that focus on particular primate species.
- New archaeological findings have complicated the colonial history of the American Southwest, developments that anthropologist Severin Fowles will discuss in a public presentation on the ϳԹ campus this month.
- There probably is not a more suitable location for one of the world’s first interdisciplinary certificates in Arctic studies than the ϳԹ.
- Three ϳԹ professors have won prestigious fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies. The three are among 69 fellows chosen from 1,100 applicants.