Anthropology.html Anthropology is at once both easy to define and difficult to describe. Nothing human is alien to anthropology. Anthropology attempts to understand the whole panorama, in time and space, of the human condition. Every day we might see news items related to anthropology, or ask anthropological questions. The science of anthropology is based on the idea that our behavior can best be understood by comparing it with those of people in other times and places around the world.
Anthropology is the evolutionary, cross-cultural study of human behavior.
It can never lose its interest, for its subject is us. The Department offers a wide range of courses, from basic principles of cultural anthropology, linguistics, physical anthropology, and archaeology, to advanced study of topics such as underwater archaeology, Caribbean cultures, human evolution, and Bronze Age Greece. The research programs of the department reflect the composition and concerns of the larger community. Dr. Page specializes in the socio-medical aspects of AIDS, focusing particularly on the recently arrived Haitian immigrant population. And Dr. Taylor has been awarded several grants for research on primate behavior.