December 5, 2017, 4:00pm Cowles Auditorium--Dame Marilyn Strathern, Emeritus Professor of Social Anthropology at Cambridge University, "Time’s Challenges: Abrupt transitions and future imaginings"
Through a summer field school course at the University of Minnesota, students have been collaborating with Ed Fleming, Curator of Archaeology at the Science Museum of Minnesota to explore and excavate an ancestral Native American village.
Professor William Beeman leads students in applying cultural anthropological tools to real business situation, partnering with companies in the Twin Cities.
By immersing herself and interviewing prisoners themselves, Serra Hakyemez analyzes how the Turkish government and Kurdish dissidents relate to one another, and the consequences for both sides of the fight.
A fertile relationship is growing between anthropology and business. Marketers are finding that anthropologists gather very useful knowledge by studying consumers in their natural habitat using the ethnographic techniques of observation and interviewing.
Please join us Monday, April 3 at 4:00pm in 255 Blegen. Jim Ferguson of Stanford University will speak on "Presence and Social Obligation: An Essay on the Share."
Visit us if you’re heading to the Great Minnesota Get-together. College of Liberal Arts departments and researchers will be in the U of M Central Crossroads building and the Driven to...
2017 Berdahl Memorial Lecture: Dr. Marilyn Strathern is Emeritus Professor of Social Anthropology, Cambridge, and former Mistress of Girton College. Dr. Strathern is a social anthropologist...
