Archaeologists studying sunken ships off the coast of Florida or analyzing the content of modern garbage are examples of how

Research on the communication skills of nonhuman primates reveals their inability to refer to objects that are not immediately present in their environment, such as food and danger. The ability to describe things and events that are not present is called

One aspect of linguistic history is language loss. When a language disappears,

Why do anthropologists now study the relationship between culture and power?

Today’s ecological anthropology, also known as environmental anthropology, attempts not only to understand environmental problems but also to

What does the film “The Shackles of Tradition” show us about Franz Boas’s early life and early scientific career?

As we saw in the film about Franz Boas, “The Shackles of Tradition,” what initially influenced Boas’s idea of cultural relativism?

 For Franz Boas, as shown in “The Shackles of Tradition,” what was the relationship between culture and environment?

In the Department of Anthropology at the University of South Florida

How did the assumptions of humankind’s cultural past held by Karl Marx differ from those of theorists such as Herbert Spencer, E.B. Tylor, and Lewis Henry Morgan?