DESCRIPTION:
Department of Anthropology of the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis
Major areas of faculty research and graduate student training in Sociocultural Anthropology include the cultural construction of politics and law, history, economy, medicine, memory, gender, art, consumption, and desire; psychological anthropology; sociocultural linguistics; colonialism, nationalism, and violence; language, rhetorical practices and poetics; and feminist anthropology. Regional specialization includes Europe, Latin America, Melanesia, North America, and South Asia. Areas of faculty research and graduate student training in Archaeology and Biological Anthropology offer perspectives on the nature of archaeological knowledge, paleoecology and evolutionary theory, and the use of sociocultural theories and interpretive strategies in the reconstruction of historic and prehistoric pasts. Regional specialization includes Africa, Europe, the Near East, and North America. Students are encouraged to define their own interests and, in consultation with their advisory committee, design a program suited to their individual needs.
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HOMEPAGE:
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DEPARTMENT ID:
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10-09755
(Last edited
on 2004/06/23 18:49:05 GMT-6
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FACULTY/DEPARTMENT MEMBERS:
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NAME
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POSITION
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EXPERTISE
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PUBS
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CTNS
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Albers, Patricia
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Professor |
American Indian studies; ethnohistory; tourism; photography |
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Berdahl, Daphne
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Gerlach, Luther P.
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Professor Emeritus |
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Gibbon, Guy E
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Professor |
Archaeology and ethnohistory of the western Great Lakes region of North America |
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Wolf-Meyer, Matthew Joseph
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Graduate Student |
Anthropology of science, technology, medicine, the body, health, kinship and the family, work, ideology, governance, gender, sexuality, cultural experiences of time and space; modernity and the “West”; social science fieldwork and methods, including historiography and ethnography; popular media; urban studies; England and the United States |
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Please note that the total of members' statistics may not equal the department/faculty
statistics due to joint authorship.
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