New Fund to Support Student-Led Initiatives in Linguistic Anthropology

The Department of Anthropology is pleased to announce the creation of the Brilliant Family Fund in Graduate-Student Led Initiatives in Linguistic Anth...

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Language in Culture, the posthumously published book from Michael Silverstein, unifies a career’s worth of linguistic anthropology research

Three UChicago anthropology professors helped bring Silverstein’s opus to fruition after his death, successfully conveying in the text his lively lect...

Jobson’s “The Case for Letting Anthropology Burn” is now available in French

Ryan Jobson’s “The Case for Letting Anthropology Burn: Sociocultural Anthropology in 2019” was recently translated into French by Nathan Pécout-Le Bra...

Tuttle on science and justice

Russell H. Tuttle recently discussed his book Footprints from Fossils to Gallows: Adventures in Paleoanthropology, Primatology, and Forensic Anthropol...

Rachel Howard goes “In Search of an American Dream”

Rachel Howard goes “In Search of an American Dream” in Current Anthropology, exploring layered history, what we do not know, and the haunting of nonkn...

Kolata discusses the function of raised fields associated with the Tiwanaku society

Raised-field agricultural systems have received attention from scholars involved in the analysis of prehistoric agricultural intensification in the Ne...

Transformation, Growth, and Governance at Caracol, Belize

Read “Transformation, Growth, and Governance at Caracol, Belize,” by Adrian S. Z. Chase via Knowledge@UChicago. Around 650 CE, the city of Caracol was...

UChicago at the 2023 AAA/CASCA Annual Meeting

Find our faculty and students at the November 15-19, 2023, annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association and the Canadian Anthropology So...

Thinking with Ngangas

Read Stephan Palmié’s comparative investigation of Afro-Cuban ritual and Western science. Palmié aims to challenge the rationality of Western expert p...

Footprints from Fossils to Gallows

In a blend of memoir and rigorous scientific investigation, Russell H. Tuttle explores the profound impacts of evidence in both historical and legal r...