Department of Anthropology, University of Minnesota
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A world-class Anthropology program
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Learn more at: cla.umn.edu/anthropology
Happy New Year from the Department of Anthropology. What are your New Year's resolutions?
January 2, 2026 at 2:18 PM
Happy New Year from the Department of Anthropology. What are your New Year's resolutions?
Planning your spring registration? Check out what anthropology has to offer! More details at schedulebuilder.umn.edu/explore/2026...
December 31, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Planning your spring registration? Check out what anthropology has to offer! More details at schedulebuilder.umn.edu/explore/2026...
Planning your spring registration? Check out Anth 5221 Anthropology of Material Culture! More details at schedulebuilder.umn.edu/explore/2026...
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December 29, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Planning your spring registration? Check out Anth 5221 Anthropology of Material Culture! More details at schedulebuilder.umn.edu/explore/2026...
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Planning your spring registration? Check out Anth 3301 Fundamentals of Anthropological Genetics! More details at schedulebuilder.umn.edu/explore/2026...
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December 23, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Planning your spring registration? Check out Anth 3301 Fundamentals of Anthropological Genetics! More details at schedulebuilder.umn.edu/explore/2026...
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Planning your spring registration? Do you need a course that fulfills your Global Perspectives Liberal Education requirements? Check out Anth 3147 Digital Anth! More details at schedulebuilder.umn.edu/explore/2026...
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December 22, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Planning your spring registration? Do you need a course that fulfills your Global Perspectives Liberal Education requirements? Check out Anth 3147 Digital Anth! More details at schedulebuilder.umn.edu/explore/2026...
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Graduate student Jaewon Byun's (Anthropology) co-authored Korean textbook, Disability: Leaving the Institutional Setting (장애, 시설을 나서다), has been selected for the 2025 Sejong Books Awards
December 18, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Graduate student Jaewon Byun's (Anthropology) co-authored Korean textbook, Disability: Leaving the Institutional Setting (장애, 시설을 나서다), has been selected for the 2025 Sejong Books Awards
Planning your spring registration? Check out what anthropology has to offer! More details at schedulebuilder.umn.edu/explore/2026...
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December 17, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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Planning your spring registration? Do you want to take part in a new course!? Check out Anth 3018/5018 Bioarcheology! More details at schedulebuilder.umn.edu/explore/2026...
December 16, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Planning your spring registration? Do you want to take part in a new course!? Check out Anth 3018/5018 Bioarcheology! More details at schedulebuilder.umn.edu/explore/2026...
Planning your spring registration? Do you want to take part in a new course!? Check out Anth 3024/5024 Forensic Anthropology! More details at schedulebuilder.umn.edu/explore/2026...
December 15, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Planning your spring registration? Do you want to take part in a new course!? Check out Anth 3024/5024 Forensic Anthropology! More details at schedulebuilder.umn.edu/explore/2026...
We’re excited to highlight our PhD Candidate Yun Feng’s new publication, Promoting Baokuan: Human-Machine “Gambling Games” between Villages and Algorithms, in the journal Ethnography (doi.org/10.1177/1466...)!
December 12, 2025 at 3:34 PM
We’re excited to highlight our PhD Candidate Yun Feng’s new publication, Promoting Baokuan: Human-Machine “Gambling Games” between Villages and Algorithms, in the journal Ethnography (doi.org/10.1177/1466...)!
Wishing all our students good luck on finals! We know you will do great!
December 12, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Wishing all our students good luck on finals! We know you will do great!
Planning your spring registration? Do you need a course that fulfills your Writing Intensive Education requirements? Check out Anth 4003W Contemporary Perspectives in Social Anthropology! More details at schedulebuilder.umn.edu/explore/2026...
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December 11, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Planning your spring registration? Do you need a course that fulfills your Writing Intensive Education requirements? Check out Anth 4003W Contemporary Perspectives in Social Anthropology! More details at schedulebuilder.umn.edu/explore/2026...
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Planning your spring registration? Do you want to take part in a new course!? Check out Anth 3310 Human-Wildlife Interactions! More details at schedulebuilder.umn.edu/explore/2026...
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December 10, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Planning your spring registration? Do you want to take part in a new course!? Check out Anth 3310 Human-Wildlife Interactions! More details at schedulebuilder.umn.edu/explore/2026...
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Check out the Department of Anthropology's Course Offerings for next Semester: cla.umn.edu/anthropology...
December 10, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Check out the Department of Anthropology's Course Offerings for next Semester: cla.umn.edu/anthropology...
Planning your spring registration? Do you need a course that fulfills your writing-intensive requirement? Check out Anth 3242W Hero, Savage, or Equal? Representations of Non-Western Peoples in the Movies! More details at schedulebuilder.umn.edu/explore/2026...
December 9, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Planning your spring registration? Do you need a course that fulfills your writing-intensive requirement? Check out Anth 3242W Hero, Savage, or Equal? Representations of Non-Western Peoples in the Movies! More details at schedulebuilder.umn.edu/explore/2026...
Today Eve Krakowski (Princeton University) will be speaking on “How the Ketubba Became Jewish.” at 7:30 pm
Details: z.umn.edu/antheve
Details: z.umn.edu/antheve
Eve Krakowski (Princeton University) Presents: How the Ketubba Became Jewish
The ketubba, or Jewish marriage contract, is the best-recognized and most widely-used kind of Jewish legal document. But it is also the sole surviving descendant of an ancient Aramaic contract-writing...
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December 9, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Today Eve Krakowski (Princeton University) will be speaking on “How the Ketubba Became Jewish.” at 7:30 pm
Details: z.umn.edu/antheve
Details: z.umn.edu/antheve
Planning your spring registration? Do you need a course that fulfills your Global Perspectives Education requirement? Check out Anth 2006/3006 Humans & Aliens! More details at schedulebuilder.umn.edu/explore/2026...
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December 8, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Planning your spring registration? Do you need a course that fulfills your Global Perspectives Education requirement? Check out Anth 2006/3006 Humans & Aliens! More details at schedulebuilder.umn.edu/explore/2026...
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Planning your spring registration? Do you need a course that fulfills your Global Perspectives and Historical Perspectives Liberal Education requirements? Check out Anth 3016/5016 African Archaeology! More details at schedulebuilder.umn.edu/explore/2026...
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December 8, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Planning your spring registration? Do you need a course that fulfills your Global Perspectives and Historical Perspectives Liberal Education requirements? Check out Anth 3016/5016 African Archaeology! More details at schedulebuilder.umn.edu/explore/2026...
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Anthropology PhD candidate Muhammad Osama Imran has been selected as the 2025 winner of the Society for Psychological Anthropology's Condon Prize for his paper "“Through the Frayed Veil: Spectral Madness and Sufi Ethics in Pakistan".
December 5, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Anthropology PhD candidate Muhammad Osama Imran has been selected as the 2025 winner of the Society for Psychological Anthropology's Condon Prize for his paper "“Through the Frayed Veil: Spectral Madness and Sufi Ethics in Pakistan".
Planning your spring registration? Do you need a course that fulfills your Global Perspectives, Writing Intensive, and/or Social Sciences Education requirements? We still have space in Anth 1003 Understanding Cultures! More details at schedulebuilder.umn.edu/explore/2026...
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December 5, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Planning your spring registration? Do you need a course that fulfills your Global Perspectives, Writing Intensive, and/or Social Sciences Education requirements? We still have space in Anth 1003 Understanding Cultures! More details at schedulebuilder.umn.edu/explore/2026...
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Planning your spring registration? Do you need a course that fulfills your biological sciences liberal education requirement? There is still space in Anth 1001 Human Evolution! More details at schedulebuilder.umn.edu/explore/2026...
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December 5, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Planning your spring registration? Do you need a course that fulfills your biological sciences liberal education requirement? There is still space in Anth 1001 Human Evolution! More details at schedulebuilder.umn.edu/explore/2026...
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Planning your spring registration? Do you need a course that fulfills your diversity and social justice, social sciences, and writing-intensive liberal education requirements? Check out Anth 3005W Language, Culture, and Power! More details schedulebuilder.umn.edu/explore/2026...
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December 5, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Planning your spring registration? Do you need a course that fulfills your diversity and social justice, social sciences, and writing-intensive liberal education requirements? Check out Anth 3005W Language, Culture, and Power! More details schedulebuilder.umn.edu/explore/2026...
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Planning your spring registration? Do you want to take a new topics course focused on the queering of Europe? Check out Anth 3980! More details at schedulebuilder.umn.edu/explore/2026...
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December 5, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Planning your spring registration? Do you want to take a new topics course focused on the queering of Europe? Check out Anth 3980! More details at schedulebuilder.umn.edu/explore/2026...
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Today Jason Read (University of Southern Maine) will be speaking about "Other Scenes: Bailbar and Tosel on Class Struggle and the Struggle Over Identity" at 3pm
Details: z.umn.edu/OtherScenes
Details: z.umn.edu/OtherScenes
Other Scenes: Balibar and Tosel on Class Struggle and the Struggle over Identity
Join CSCL for an upcoming colloquium with Jason Read (University of Southern Maine).
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December 5, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Today Jason Read (University of Southern Maine) will be speaking about "Other Scenes: Bailbar and Tosel on Class Struggle and the Struggle Over Identity" at 3pm
Details: z.umn.edu/OtherScenes
Details: z.umn.edu/OtherScenes
Eve Krakowski (Princeton University) will be speaking on December 9th at 7:30 pm about “How the Ketubba Became Jewish.”
Details: z.umn.edu/antheve
Details: z.umn.edu/antheve
Eve Krakowski (Princeton University) Presents: How the Ketubba Became Jewish
The ketubba, or Jewish marriage contract, is the best-recognized and most widely-used kind of Jewish legal document. But it is also the sole surviving descendant of an ancient Aramaic contract-writing...
z.umn.edu
December 1, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Eve Krakowski (Princeton University) will be speaking on December 9th at 7:30 pm about “How the Ketubba Became Jewish.”
Details: z.umn.edu/antheve
Details: z.umn.edu/antheve