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The human social world--past and present--consists of a myriad of distinct racial, ethnic, religious, and cultural groupings with profoundly different ways of life and understandings of the world. Anthropology takes this human diversity as its point of departure, and seeks to understand its basis.

The program at Colby investigates a wide range of social forms, from the egalitarian foragers of the Kalahari Desert to the class-stratified states of the industrialized world.. MORE

New Faculty.

Three anthropologists joined Colby in Fall 2007 and Fall 2008

 
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Upcoming and Recent Events
 
 
October 27, 2008

Visiting speaker Professor Hugh Gusterson of George Mason University, "Towards an Anthropology of Drugs"

 
March 2, 2009

"Japanese Girl Occult Hunter" by visiting speaker co-sponsered with the department of East Asian Studies, Professor Laura Miller of Loyola University, Chicago.  4:30pm Lovejoy 213

 
April 7, 2009

"Ethnography and the Micropolitics of Activism" by visiting speaker Professor Karen Brodkin of UCLA. 4:00pm Diamond 323

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