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."
Intragroup killings between chimpanzees are rare, but Michael Wilson at the University of Minnesota says they are a valuable insight into chimp behaviour such as male coalition building.
Third-year undergraduate Amber Jaeger has had several amazing opportunities during her study of biological anthropology, and specifically ape and human evolution. She completed a field work in Kenya this past summer, focusing on paleoanthropological and archaeological methods.
