New biography reveals how India’s first woman anthropologist confronted Eugen Fischer’s racist theories in 1920s Germany, ...

She worked in unusual conditions, roping in family when she couldn’t raise funds for professional assistance. A look at one ...

Sociologist MN Srinivas didn’t just theorise caste, but investigated it in the field. On his death anniversary, a look at the ...

Here are the year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, chosen by the staff of The New York Times Book Review.

Perhaps most importantly, Lucy’s discovery foreshadowed a series of fossil finds that filled in the scientific picture of her species. By 1978, enough evidence had accumulated to establish Lucy as the ...

It’s just a matter of having two loves,” explained Diana Movius, speaking at The Georgetowner’s Nov. 21 Cultural Leadership ...

The names have changed, and yet amid these metamorphoses lies the permanence of what the anthropologist Adam Kuper calls ... s nascent team of ethnographers returned from their fieldwork with large ...

one-day taking pride in being called a cultural broker. Despite her early fascination with laboratory work, Muthiru's journey took an unexpected turn when she became deeply involved in fieldwork ...

The Social Anthropology PhD programme involves substantial original research, normally including ethnographic fieldwork of 12-18 months and leading ... access research resources and experience another ...

Professor Caitlyn Placek’s cross-cultural research project examined how different populations treat addiction.

As Cleiber Bane began to sing, he looked up at the purple, red and yellow fish painted along the wooden slats of his home in ...