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Anthropology
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What does it mean to be human? Where have we come from? How do we live and communicate?
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ANTHROPOLOGY IS ABOUT:
Understanding how we produce goods and power, make kinship and gender, decide what is right and wrong, build and destroy environments -- all in such a variety of ways;
Studying language and other forms of communication, such as new media, technology, and the arts;
Through archaeological excavations, examining big picture changes in society, culture, and biology over time -- from the deep human past to the fraught realities of lives unfolding today;
- Investigating the evolution of human and non-human primates through study of adaptation, genetics, behavior, and ecology -- confronting the contours and limits of human uniqueness.
Events
Featured
Sep
12
Multi
Bananapocalypse: Un/Making Plantation Capitalism
U-M Anthropology 2025 Roy A. Rappaport Lecture Series with Assistant Professor Alyssa Paredes
3:00 PM
411
West Hall
Upcoming
Oct
24
Fairness and (In)equality: U-M Anthropology Four Field Symposium 2025
1:00 PM
Pendleton Room (second floor)
Michigan Union
