Forensic anthropological (the study of skeletonized remains in medico-legal settings) analyses and reports include diverse ...

In popular culture, anthropologists often star as the heroines and heroes of movies; portrayed as intrepid loners working in remote, inhospitable environments to bring us the lost secrets of hidden ...

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Anthropologists have traditionally had a pretty wonkish reputation, earnestly taking field notes while interviewing a tribal chief or lecturing in some college classroom about the intricacies of ...

Obama’s mother taught him to appreciate cultural diversity, and that’s a lesson we could all benefit from Stanley Ann Dunham Soetoro earned a Ph.D. in anthropology with an 800-page dissertation about ...

How anthropologists can bring value to engineering and computer science.

The utterly winning documentary “The Anthropologist” takes a unique perspective on the field of anthropology through the lens of a pair of female anthropologists and their daughters. Margaret Mead’s ...

Anthropology is a social science that is concerned with understanding culture through participatory observation, or ethnography: cultural immersion in the social worlds being studied. This research ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about emerging employment structures, policy and law. An Anthropologist on Mars is the title of Oliver Sacks’ 1993 ...

Carolyn Smith knew she had a lot to learn when she arrived on the banks of the Klamath River 15 years ago. That summer, tribal elders taught her the cultural significance of hand-woven baskets and how ...