Instructor at York University interested in the cultural construction of health.

Pomona College anthropology instructor whose interests include cultural resource management in New Zealand.

Socio-cultural anthropologist working at Texas A&M University who uses evolutionary theory to theorize about human behavior in Amazonia and Southeast Asia. Features information on current projects and contact details.

Lecturer at the University of Oklahoma with research interests in anthropological demography, behavioral ecology, parental care, fertility, education and schooling outcomes and evolutionary theory.

Biological anthropologist at the University of Cambridge with interests in human cultural evolution, memes and memetics. Features his studies of food taboos among pygmy foragers and horticulturalists in the Ituri Forest of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

University of Iowa researcher interested in gender and sexuality, comparative political economies, and urbanization in Latin America (especially Nicaragua and Peru).

Professor at the University of Buffalo who researches religion, ritual, gender, in indigenous highland South America

Professor at the University of Buffalo researching kinship, culture, historical methods, and contemporary social change in Southeast Asia.

University of British Columbia anthropologist interested in religion, missionaries and conversion in colonial settings. Features a list of recent publications, as well as contact details.

Features a biography, a bibliography, a forum, and articles focusing on Bateson's epistemological work.

Professor of sociocultural anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis.

Cultural anthropologist at the University of Florida. Includes curriculum vitae, class materials, and a list of his academic papers available online.

Instructor at York University who teaches cultural anthropology.

Contact details for this lecturer at Bristol University, specializing in the Africa, religion and kinship.

Professor of anthropology at UCLA whose research interests focuses on mathematical models of human behavior.

Anthropologist at Washington University in St. Louis whose research interests are on examining the connection between social norms and the development of beliefs about the social world.

Research interests in ritual and religion, native peoples of North and South America, medical anthropology, human ecology, intellectual, and cultural property. Williams College.

Ethnographic research on the Tibetan exile community. University of Regina.

Economic anthropologist at the University of Iowa interested in agricultural systems and artisans in Mexico and Peru.

Biographical overview of the University of California, Berkeley Emeritus Professor that details her contributions to the field of Cultural Anthropology.

University of British Columbia anthropologist whose research interests include subarctic ethnography, circumpolar political developments, and North American ethnohistory. Offers contact details, recent publications, and links to class descriptions.

Historic information about a 19th and Early 20th Century (1858-1929) Ethnologist-Sinologist. Includes full text reprints of his shorter contributions to anthropology.

University of British Columbia professor who researches gender inequality and feminist theory. Provides a bibliography of recent publications.

Biographical sketch of the 19th Century ethnologist who lived among the Zuni.

Research explores the importance of religious institutions as spiritual centers in transnational communities, the ways in which religious commodities are utilized to affirm personal piety and identity, as well as call others to faith, and the growing production of popular "religious texts" in a variety of media. University of Arkansas.

Features links to courses in cultural anthropology and Islamic societies and cultures. Also offers publications on Berber society, Morocco, labor relations, migration and the Amazigh identity movement. Fairfield University.

University of Alberta, Canada researcher whose interests include China, Southeast Asia, religion, language in society. Provides contacts, curriculum vitae and essays.

Research interests in poetic discourse and South India Tribal Culture. Munich University, Germany.?

Anthropology professor at the University of Buffalo who studies social organization, ecology and ritual in Southeast Asia and Africa.

Anthropology professor at Oakland University. Includes collection of online papers and articles.

Conducts research in political and historical anthropology violence and culture in the Near East, South Asia, and Afghanistan. Williams College.

Research areas include knowledge, perception, phenomenology, medical anthropology, Melanesia, and Papua New Guinea. University of Iceland.

Professor at San Jose State University in California, currently working on an ethnography of Silicon Valley cultures and their connection to centers of high technology worldwide.

Research with the Yaquis of northern Mexico that focuses on women's verbal and non-verbal production of gendered and ethnic identities of self. University of Arkansas.

Professor at Kent State University who researches kinship and social organization, political development, indigenous seafaring techniques in Oceana and Native North America. Features recent publications and a photo gallery.

University College London PhD student interested in cultural evolution and diversity in the Pacific, especially the Austronesian world. Uses phylogenetic comparative methods to understand and examine cultural change and adaptation.

Associate Professor of Anthropology at UCLA whose research and teaching explores the ways in which culture, psychology, and natural selection operate together to shape human sociality.

Professor at the University of Buffalo who researches cultural ecology and cognitive anthropology in Southeast Asia, the Philippines, and Europe.

Research interests include: ecology, social organization and cognition of foragers in Canadian subarctic and India; cultural transmission in Hindu India and among South Indian sculptors; problems in the study of cognition; and anthropological perspectives on culture theories. University of Missouri.

Professor at York University who studies the anthropology of disability and cultural definitions of accessibility.

Ethnographic research on the native cultures of the Peruvian Andes. University of Regina.

Features a short biography, list of publications, contact details and information on his new books.

Professor at York University whose main interests are in the fields of law and social control and of local-level politics, with particular specialization on processes of dispute management and decision-making.

Research and teaching interests include the ethnography of expressive and material practices, and learning environments, particularly involving African Americans in the U.S. and West Indies, and European Americans in the Appalachian corridor. College of William and Mary.

Researcher at York University who explores the multiple discourses of conservationalist control that shaped the governance practices of colonial resource use regimes in the Central Himalayas from a feminist perspective.

Anthropology professor at the University of Utah researching kinship and social organization, structural analysis and social networks in Oceania.

Instructor at York University who teaches cultural anthropology and maintains a continuing interest in the politics of Central and Southern Africa.

Anthropology professor at the University of Utah interested in documenting the sociobiology of hunter-gatherers.

Research activity is in the area of exploring the cultural shaping of emotions with field work in Indonesia. University of South Carolina.

Contact information and current courses of this California State University, Bakersfield Professor.

Sociologist and anthropologist conducting research at the University in Leiden (The Netherlands). His research interests include studying Muslim religion and health care.

Professor at Iowa State University whose primary research focuses on natural and cultural resource management, ethnicity and social mobility, and technological and agricultural change.

A professor and curator at the University of Oklahoma. The site includes information on his research among the Yuchi, a Native American people in Eastern Oklahoma.

Psychological anthropology graduate student at UCSD. Features short biography, CV and links to related sites.

Provides personal academic information and contact details. Features a collection of essays that address identity in Latin America.

Professor of social anthropology at the University of Manitoba whose research interests includes gender and kinship in China.

Research interests in the law and dispute settlement, religion and magic, cross-cultural study of personality and emotions in Southeast Asia. Williams College.

Research interests include gender, ethnography, and the individual in modern Egypt. University of South Carolina.

Associate professor of anthropology and director of the anthropology program at Butler University. Professor Kenyon's research expertise includes gender studies, religion and healing, in Africa.

Research interests in cultural materialism. Features information on research, glossary on social evolution, papers, and contact details. University of Vienna.

Her research is focused on contributing to a broader social project of recognizing and addressing inequalities; with long-term ethnographic research concerns situated interpretations of transnational capitalism. University of South Carolina.

Associate professor of cultural and medical anthropology at the University of Manitoba who studies indigenous societies of northern North America.

Research interests are in theory, gender, and political anthropology. University of Iceland.

A biography of Kroeber's life and catalog of his contributions to the field of anthropology.

Specializes in the ecological and economic features of traditional pastoral societies of the South-Central Andes. IPFW.

Research interests include ethnography, ethnomusicology, Native American studies, race and ethnicity, group identity, belief and worldview, and folklore and community aesthetics. Ball State University.

Anthropologist and subject librarian for the New Zealand and Pacific Collection archived at the University of Auckland.

Eminent American cultural anthropologist recognized primarily for her enthohistorical studies of the subarctic Innu and her contributions to feminist anthropology.

Research interests include gender, refugee and diaspora communities, and the transnational movements of people and ideas. Northern Illinois University.

Research focuses on historic and modern Europe, with an emphasis on Germany. Rochester Institute of Technology.

Instructor at York University interested in analysis of society as spectacle, visual culture, and of popular cultural performance in both Euro-North American and postcolonial cultures.

Professor at the University of Utah who studies Middle East ethnology, social organization, religion and ethnomusicology.

Web site of the CSU Chico professor that discusses his research in applied anthropology in Honduras.

Professor at Harvard University who is interested in spirit possession, gender, ethnicity and transnationalism in West Africa.

Features curriculum vita, biography, and research interests in urban renewal in Germany.

Conducts research in medical anthropology, culture of biomedicine, AIDS, cultural politics and social movements, sexuality, transnationalism in South Asia. Williams College.

Associate Professor in the Anthropology Department of Minnesota State University, Mankato.

Research interests in religion, symbolism, social organization, language, ecological anthropology, and culture change. Northern Illinois University.

Research interests focused on the Trobriand Islands and American culture. Northern Illinois University.

Currently studying the political resurgence of Virginia Indians during the twentieth century. College of William and Mary.

Professor at Lake Forest College interested in fetus-spirits and ghosts in modern Taiwan.

University of Maine anthropology professor whose interests include the comparative study of religion, and religion and politics.

Anthropologist at York University who researches Amish ethnicity.

Interests include culture and identity, ethnicity, ethnohistory, political and legal anthropology, social and religions movements, tourism, performance, Native North America, especially the Great Lakes region. Ball State University.

Research specialist at the University of Buffalo who studies warfare, social structure and cultural ecology of peoples of the Caribbean and West Africa.

Research interests include mapping inter-organizational relationships through the flow of material assemblages. York University, Toronto, Canada.

Professor of anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis whose research focuses on factors that affect women's pursuit of economic opportunities and rural development in Nepal.

Features professional memberships, CV, publications and contacts. Ranchi University, Ranchi, India.

Features contact details, academic achievements and summary of research for this Indian anthropologist.

Specializes broadly in the study of complex societies. Northern Illinois University.

Specializes is psychological and medical anthropology. He has conducted fieldwork among Tibetan refugee populations India, the Shipibo Indians of the Peruvian Amazon and the Australian Aborigines of Australia. IPFW.

Professor at Kent State University who teaches psychological anthropology, culture conflict, North American and Old World prehistory.

Researches identity, race, Mexican and African American culture and specifically works to document the lives of persons of mixed ancestry. New School University.

Research interests in cultural ecology, the archaeology of Mesoamerica, North America, Africa and South Asia and in the field of gay and lesbian studies. Northern Illinois University.

Professor at Northern Arizona University who studied applied anthropology as it relates to the enculturation Native American Indians.

Research and teaching interests reside in mathematics, methods, and psychological anthropology. University of Missouri.

Professor at York University who conducts research on Canadian housing, especially non-profit cooperatives.

Anthropology professor at the University of Utah who researches historical anthropology, kinship and social organization in Tibet and Nepal.

Anthropologist at York University who studies the effects of economic and technological change on the banana industry in the Caribbean island of St. Lucia.

Research interests focus on Middle America, culture and personality, and the sociocultural change of prehistoric cultures. University of Minnesota, Duluth.

Professor of anthropology at the University of Manitoba who studies the ethnology of the Caribbean.

Professor of Anthropology at Stockton College.

Research interests in economic anthropology and the Philippines. Northern Illinois University.

Research focused on social organization (both kinship and politics) and inter-group relations. Northern Illinois University.

Research interests are in cultural ecology, cultural materialism, economic anthropology, religion, ritual, and symbolism. He has conducted ethnographic field research among Tibetans refugees in India and has spent over 30 years among Nahua Indians of Mexico. IPFW.

Anthropology professor at the University of Maine with expertise in the ecology of maritime hunter gatherers and the causes and effects of climatic events on small scale societies.

Research interests are in biological effects of disease, the spread of disease along social networks and in prehistoric populations, and a study of the spread of the 1918-1919 influenza epidemic among aboriginal peoples in the Norway House District of Manitoba, Canada. University of Missouri.

Researches the human effects of agricultural mechanization and the shift from agricultural to industrial employment. University of Arkansas.

Anthropologist at York University who published a book on the nineteenth century, communitarian "Children of Peace" who lived in Sharon, Ontario.

Anthropology instructor at Northern Arizona University.

Research interests in social change, religion and politics in the Turkish Republican period. Features links and contact details. University of Bristol.

Anthropologist at York University whose interests lie in political anthropology and agrarian studies.

Researches the Tarahumaras and mestizos in Northwestern Mexico. University of Regina.

Anthropology professor at Northern Arizona University researching culture change, gender issues, applied, and development in Polynesia.

University of Miami researcher who studies industrial and small-scale fisheries analyses in the Indo-Pacific and Spanish West Africa.

Researches domestic society, contemporary issues, and future-oriented. Interests focused on how human well-being changes as a result of resource use and economic development. Oregon State University.

Research interests in human behavioral ecology, the evolution of cooperation, foraging theory, costly signaling, and the evolution of religion and morality. University of Connecticut.?

Site of the French anthropologist and cognitive scientist, with brief biography and online texts.

Research interests focus on tools, tool use, and the material culture of non-industrial peoples, including Euro-Americans of the 19th century and before. University of Missouri.

Professor at the University of Florida whose research interests are in the medical anthropology of Central and South America.

Professor of anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis whose research focuses on social, spatial, and political aspects of agriculture, sustainability, and biotechnology.

Professor of anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis whose research focuses on issues at the interface of anthropology, medicine and public health.

Researches the political struggles between U.S. multinationals, the state, and peasant workers in Ecuador's banana producing region and the poultry industry and Latin immigration into the US South. University of Arkansas.

Research among the Muinane, an indigenous people of the Colombian Amazon. University of Regina.

Research focuses on popular music, including: Franco-Algerian Rai music, Islamic African-American rap, Mizrahi dance music in Israel, and the popular music of Nubians in Egypt. University of Arkansas.

Features information relating to South-East Asia and the Hmong people and offers publications, articles, reference, photos, and music. Australian National University.

Offers articles, photos, crafts, artwork, and professional qualifications.

Research in applied anthropology, food systems, public and environmental health, the anthropology of sports, North America, and Northern Europe. Northern Illinois University.

A short biography from Science News of the celebrated anthropologist who launched the study of African pygmies in the 1950's.

Anthropologist at York University who has done research in Southeast Asia (Thailand and Indonesia) with some additional field experience in Kenya, Colombia and the United States.

Research interests include agricultural and economic anthropology, demography, conservation, and indigenous management of natural resources. University of Missouri.

Research interests include the roles of kinship and symbolism in non-traditional subsistence in the Midwest, as well as the role of harness-racing in Indiana culture from a historical perspective. Ball State University.

Professor in the Departments of Anthropology and Psychiatry at UCLA whose research explores the relationships between culture and human development. Contains contact information, research interests, and full bibliography.

Research interests include contemporary Chinese art worlds, gender, and visual culture. Features links to publications, and information on the "Cruel/Loving Bodies" exhibition project. University of California, Santa Cruz.

University of California Irvine researcher interested in the dynamics and organizational theory of social networks and in complex adaptive systems.

Professor at Iowa State University whose research interests focus on alternative curing practices and health-care decision-making processes in Latin America.

Anthropologist and director of the Program Review Office of Planning and Institutional Effectiveness at the Florida International University.

Current research interests include new religious movements and religious change, mass media, global and popular culture, community in cities, and colonialism. Northern Illinois University.

Professor of anthropology at the University of Manitoba who studies social organization, political economy, gender roles, migration and rural development in Mexico and Bangladesh.

Cultural anthropologist and professor at Indiana University. Biographical information and various projects, including software reviews and the Global Consumer Culture Project.

Interests include the economic and political organizations of modern societies, as well as the interaction between biological and cultural factors. University of Missouri.

A biographical sketch of the anthropologist associated with the Culture Area concept.

Director of Northern Illinois University's Anthropology Museum with special research interests in Southeast Asia.