Anthropology at Conn
This anthropology professor is from France and heads the pathway focusing on Migration
Who is Professor Benoit
Author of Gender Trouble
Who is Judith Butler
This branch of Anthropology studies of human societies, practices, and development.
What is cultural anthropology
This theory believes that behavior should be evaluated not by outside standards but in the context of the culture in which it occurs
What is cultural relativism
This pop culture archaeologist is famous for such finds as extraterrestrial crystal skulls and the Ark of the Covenant.
Who Is Indiana Jones
The Connecticut College campus lies on part of the 750 acres of arboretum and this Indigenous tribe's land.
Who are the Mohegan
Called the "Pioneer of American Anthropology," this scholar was a curator at the Field Museum in Chicago and America Museum of Natural History.
Who is Franz Boas
Dr. Temperence Brennan represents this branch of anthropology in the Fox Television series "Bones"
What is forensic anthropology
This Western attitude views Middle Eastern and Asian societies as exotic and primitive, and rationalizes the imperial conquest of the Eastern world throughout history.
What is Orientalism
An extinct group of hominids, closely related to modern humans, only stupider.
Who Are Neanderthals
Two of the projects part of Material Legacies require students to work in the archaeology lab located in the basement of this building
What is Winthrop
This anthropologist wrote Coming of Age in Samoa after doing extensive fieldwork there and is today sometimes considered "The Mother of Modern Anthropology"
Who is Margaret Mead
This branch originated to document endangered tongues and has developed to encompass how spoken and written communication influences social life
What is linguistic anthropology
This theory studies signs and symbols as elements of language and other systems of communication
What is semiotics
Contrary to popular belief, archaeologists don’t study dinosaurs- that’s the realm of this completely separate discipline.
What is Paleontology
This professor does ethnographic research in Guatemala and currently holds a fellowship at Harvard.
Who is Professor Bennet
This anthropologist shares the same last name with a popular jeans brand
Who is Claude Levi-Stauss
This branch of anthropology just... loves a midden
What is archaeology
This theory views culture as a system of binary oppositions
What is structuralism
Every anthropologist’s favorite example of competitive feasting and cultural complexity in indigenous tribes.
What Is The Potlatch
If you've taken one of this professor's classes, it's likely you've tasted crickets or homemade deer jerky
Who is Professor Lizarralde
Author of Discipline and Punish and The History of Sexuality who frequently discussed the panopticon in his work
Who is Michel Foucault
One of Professor Benoit's specialties, this subfield studies human health and biocultural adaptation
What is medical anthropology
In an archaeological dig, this theory supposes a linear progression of time from the lowest/oldest strata to the highest/newest
What is the Law of Superposition
Almost any aspect of culture can be denounced as this, which somehow makes it not real, or impactful in everyday life.
What Is A Social Construct