Anthropological Association of Drexel University

10/11/2018

Lancet report says 13.5 million lives could be saved every year if mental illness addressed

03/13/2018

The scenario many of us learned in school is that two X chromosomes make someone female, and an X and a Y chromosome make someone male. These are simplistic ways of thinking about what is scientifically very complex.

10/05/2017

Archaeologists say the body was not stolen by crusaders in the 11th century and is still located below a church in Demre

10/02/2017

Literature, Writing & Anthropology by Darren Byler and Shannon Dugan Iverson What is the work that stories do? “Literature, Writing, and Anthropology” seeks to address this question by creating a space in which fiction and anthropology converge, collide, and collapse into one another. This collecti...

07/27/2017

05/23/2017

features the latest contribution to our Openings and Retrospectives section, a Retrospectives collection on “Affect,” edited by Daniel White. In his introductory essay, White reflects on how affect theory has inspired anthropological research over the past fifteen years through its attention to the…

04/03/2017

Come visit us at the Spring Involvement Fair! Wednesday from 4-6 on Lancaster Walk!

03/16/2017

Ordinary people had a voice in some early Mesoamerican societies, though these democracies apparently lasted only 200 to 300 years

03/08/2017

Join us this Sunday, March 12th for a tour of the National Museum of American Jewish History! We will be meeting at the Dragon Statue at 2 PM and taking the Septa to the museum, so bring your own tokens. We can't wait to see you all there!

03/07/2017

Archaeologists study a colossal Olmec stone head in La Venta, Mexico in this 1947 National Geographic photo.

02/24/2017

An archaeological VR company wants to show you what ruins looked like before they were, well, ruins