Subfields
The study of language.
Linguistics.
Shared meanings, practices, and structures.
Culture.
In this movie, an archaeologist breaks several key principles of archaeology, including provenience and ethics.
Indiana Jones.
This professor went to grad school in Wisconsin.
Professor Matt Sumera.
This anthropologist is sometimes referred to as the "father of modern anthropology." Some of his students include Ruth Benedict, Margaret Mead, and Zora Neale Hurston.
Franz Boas.
The anthropological study of music and sound.
Ethnomusicology.
Formal term for a family structure.
Kinship.
This movie follows a group of colonizers who study the Na'vi, a species on Pandora, through Na'vi-human hybrids.
Avatar.
This professor was a child model.
Professor Brian Hoffman.
This English anthropologist and primatologist has worked on conservation and animal welfare issues. Setting herself apart from others in the field at the time, she named primates in her study rather than numbering them.
Jane Goodall.
The bone that the scapula articulates to.
Humerus.
Era of theoretical thought following Modernism.
Postmodernism.
In this film, the main character falls in love with his father's archaeology grad student.
Call Me By Your Name.
This professor likes to look at trees.
Professor David Tennessen.
This famous anthropologist became a central figure in the Harlem Renaissance with her writings on racial divisions and contemporary issues in the black community.
Zora Neale Hurston.
Two terms used in sociocultural anthropology that describe observing from an insiders perspective and from an outsiders perspective, respectively.
Emic and etic.
Historical epoch that followed the Ice Age and Agricultural Revolution.
Anthropocene.
This movie follows a linguist attempting to make contact with aliens who travel to Earth.
Arrival.
This professor has a child who likes punk music.
Professor David Davies.
This French anthropologist wrote Tristes Tropiques on the structures of "civilized" and "savage" minds, which established his position as a central figure in the structuralist school of thought.
Claude Levi-Strauss
This subfield studies diseases of the past.
Paleopathology.
Ingrained habits, skills, and dispositions formulated through imitation, socialization, identity, and the environment.
Habitus.
This film follows a group of anthropologists studying a rare pagan festival in Sweden.
Midsommar.
These three professors attended Hamline University together as undergraduates.
Sue Myster, Marcia Regan, Brian Hoffman.
This anthropologist studied the relationship between personality, language, art, and culture, and believes that no trait exists in isolation. She wrote about this in her book, Patterns of Culture (1934).
Ruth Benedict.