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Anthropology

  • Assistant Professor of Anthropology Casey Barrier in the field.
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    In Our Backyard
    Assistant Professor of Anthropology Casey Barrier conducts fieldwork at America’s first city.
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    Our Four-Field Legacy
    Our Department continues its four-field legacy, offering courses in Cultural, Linguistic, Archaeology, and Biological Anthropology.
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    Faculty and Staff
    Our experienced faculty members conduct research in Alaska and Central Asia, South America, Southeast Asia, South Asia, and Africa.
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    Anthropology Collections
    The department's anthropology collection consists of more than 8,000 objects from around the world and are available for student research.
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Anthropology is a holistic study of the human condition in both the past and the present. The anthropological lens can bring into focus the social, cultural, biological, and linguistic diversity of humankind throughout time and space.

Anthropological fieldwork can encompass many directions: the search for early human fossils in Africa, the excavations of prehistoric societies and ancient civilizations, the analysis of language use and other expressive forms of culture, or an examination of the significance of culture in the context of social life in all societies, particularly non-Western ones. 

Bryn Mawr's Department of Anthropology continues its four-field legacy, offering courses in Cultural and Linguistic Anthropology, Archaeology, and Biological Anthropology. Our faculty members conduct research in Alaska and Central Asia, South America, Southeast Asia, South Asia, and Africa.

Anthropology Recent Books

  • Handbook of English costume in the eighteenth century
  • Rethinking race : the case for deflationary realism
  • One, two, three, four : number rhymes and finger games
  • Favourite nursery stories
  • Cultural constructions of identity : meta-ethnography and theory
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Department of Anthropology, Dalton Hall
Bryn Mawr College
101 N. Merion Avenue
Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania 19010
Phone: 
610-526-5030
Fax: 
610-526-5655
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