John Bowen

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Bowen's research explores broad social transformations now taking place in the world-wide Muslim community, including special emphasis on Muslim life in Indonesia, the world's largest Muslim nation. His research focuses on the role of cultural forms (religious practices, aesthetic genres, legal discourse) ...

Pascal Boyer

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Professor Boyer is an internationally recognized scholar on the study of how people and communities perceive and understand characteristics of their culture. His work centers on questions concerning the understanding of culture and its scientific investigation as it relates to the mind and the brain. ...

Browman

Browman's current research focus is on various aspects of two larger questions in anthropological archaeology: the origins of plant and animal domestication, and the formation of the pristine state. While the central Andes are Browman's primary regional focus, the topical questions investigated are ...

Robert Canfield

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Canfield, a sociocultural anthropologist, spent nine years in Afghanistan. His research focuses on Islamic movements in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran and other Central Asian countries. He supports the U.S. war in Afghanistan, but was highly critical of the Bush administration regarding the war in Iraq. ...

Conroy is co-developer of a method to analyze fossilized skulls using computed tomography, or CT, scans. The system lets researchers see inside skull fossils and reconstruct the skull from fragments, allowing a precise measure of brain size.

Gustafson's research focuses on the ethnographic study of the state and on not-so-new transnational processes referred to as globalizations. He is specifically interested in social movements and translocal networks that affect and give meaning to power relations, processes of identity formation, and ...

Kelly's interest and expertise is in Eastern North American archaeology with a focus on the central Mississippi River Valley and the cultural developments related to Mississippian culture, especially the Cahokia site. A passionate interest in this center of Mississippian society began nearly thirty ...

Kidder's research over the past 15 years has focused on archaeological study of the evolution of human societies in the Southeastern United States. He has been especially interested in the emergence of social ranking, the development of domesticated food crops and the causal (or potentially causal) ...

Rebecca Lester

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Lester's research focuses on medical anthropology, gender, embodiment, religion and ritual, psychological anthropology and cross-cultural psychiatry. Linking these issues at various points is her focus on gender, self and the body. She has recently completed her first book (based on her dissertation ...

As an Old World prehistorian, Marshall's research focuses on two issues: early hominid lifeways, and the origins and spread of pastoralism in Africa. She has explored these topics through survey and excavation, principally in the Loita-Mara area of southwestern Kenya, and through zooarchaeological ...

Montgomery learned some cultural anthropology and sociology at Stanford (A.B., 1964), and some ethnology (and ecology, parasitology, nutrition science, physiology) in graduate studies at Columbia. his major field research has been in Nevada with Washo Indians, in India in northern Tamil Nadu, and in ...

Parikh's research focuses on local responses to national and global development interventions, particularly issues surrounding sexuality, sexual and reproductive health, and gender relations. Using ethnographic and historical methods and critical theory, her current research in eastern Uganda traces ...