anthropology

Melvyn C. Goldstein, the John Reynolds Harkness Professor of Anthropology and co-director of the Center for Research on Tibet, was featured in "Dancing in Amdo," a documentary film on the Sino-Tibetan conflict. The documentary explores the Tibet issue from both sides, and it includes interviews…

Leading an archaeological dig in a northern Israeli cave, researchers from Case Western Reserve University School of Dental Medicine have unearthed clues about early man’s lifestyle in an important area along the transcontinental path from Africa to Eurasia. Researchers found teeth from an adult,…

Anthropology’s Eileen Anderson-Fye started the academic year by giving the first-ever faculty address to the incoming undergraduate class. She finished it by becoming the only person in university history to win its top award for undergraduate teaching 12 months after claiming the campus prize for…

In her pioneering studies, Cynthia Beall became used to the heady atmosphere high in the mountains of Tibet, Ethiopia and Peru. Now she’ll share rarified air with Nobel laureates, Pulitzer Prize winners and more as a new member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Beall, a Distinguished…