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Our department supports an interdisciplinary approach to the study of global, urban, historical, and cultural experience, practices, and change. Our faculty are scholarly experts in archaeology, cultural anthropology, economics, education, folklore, psychology, and sociology which represent academic disciplines dedicated to the understanding of human social life, past and present.

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News & Events

Conference: "The Uses and Abuses of History in the Trump Era"
March 28, 2019 - 8:30AM to March 29, 2019 - 8:00PM
RIT Campus Center
"The Three Deadliest Words in the World: It's a Girl"
Sociology Professor Rachel McGinnis will participate in a panel discussion following this film, which examines the murders, abandonment, and abuse of girls worldwide
October 18, 2018 - 6:00PM
1400 Golisano Hall (Xerox Auditorium)
"Deaf Identity, Self, and Personhood in Guatemala"
Guest lecture by Monica Rodriguez, Sept. 28, 2019
September 28, 2018 - 11:00AM to 12:30PM
1310 Eastman Hall
Equal Pay Day and data equality for Native American women
September 27, 2018 - 12:02PM
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Faculty Scholarship

A Companion to Psychological Anthropology: Modernity and Psychocultural Change

Conerly Casey and Robert B. Ederton, editors
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The We and the Us: Mentoring African-American Women

Kijana Crawford
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Cultures of Fear: A Critical Reader

Uli Linke and Danielle Taana Smith, editors
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The Sense of Tranquility: Bodily Practice and Ethnic Classes in Yucatán. In: Ethnology

Christine A. Kray
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Frank Julian Sprague: Electrical Inventor and Engineer

William D. Middleton
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The Summer Institute of Linguistics and the Politics of Bible Translation in Mexico. In: Pluralizing Ethnography

Christine A. Kray
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Wine and Culture: Vineyard to Glass

Rachel E. Black and Robert C. Ulin, editors
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Understanding Cultures: Perspectives in Anthropology and Social Theory

Robert Ulin
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Antropología y teoría social

Robert C. Ulin
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Resistance to What? How?: Stalled Social Movements in Cancun. In: City and Society

Christine A. Kray
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"Mediated Hostility", in Genocide: Truth, Memory, and Representation (ed. A. Hinton)

Conerly Casey
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German Bodies: Race and Representation After Hitler

Uli Linke
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Blood and Nation: The European Aesthetics of Race

Uli Linke
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A God for the Poor: Folk Catholicism and Social Justice among the Yucatec Maya. In: The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Religion and Social Justice

Christine A. Kray
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The Pentecostal Re-Formation of Self: Opting for Orthodoxy in Yucatán. In: Ethos

Christine A. Kray
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Nasty Women and Bad Hombres: Gender and Race in the 2016 US Presidential Election

Christine A. Kray, Tamar W. Carroll, and Hinda Mandell, eds.
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Alumni Spotlight: Angela Stallone

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