Prof. Robert Lemelson releases two new documentary films
Prof. Lemelson has just released two new documentary films from his work in Indonesia. Standing on the Edge of a Thorn follows a rural Indonesian family over the course of twelve years as […]
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Prof. Robert Lemelson interviewed on the AAA podcast “Ordinary Anthropologists Doing Extraordinary Things”
Dr. Lemelson is an adjunct professor in the Department of Anthropology and among other roles is the founder of the film company Elemental Productions. You can listen to the podcast here.
Prof. Susan Perry interviewed on WAMC Northeast Public Radio
Prof. Perry was on WAMC’s Academic Minute to talk about her research with white-faced capuchin monkeys that shows that a stable and peaceful childhood leads to success later in life. The interview […]
Prof. Jeanne Arnold elected Honorary Fellow of the California Academy of Sciences
Prof. Arnold is one of ten new members of the Academy and the only new Honorary Fellow elected this year. Prof. Arnold is a leading authority on Pacific coast hunter-gatherer complexity and has […]
Prof. Susan Perry talks to the UCLA Newsroom about male offspring support in monkeys
Prof. Perry and researchers at the Lomas Barbudal Monkey Project in Costa Rica have found that juvenile male white-faced capuchin monkeys thrive when raised in a group in which their father is […]
Anthony Graesch interviewed in the New York Times
Dr. Graesch, a former graduate student and post doctoral researcher at UCLA and now an assistant professor at Connecticut College, is an author of Life at Home in the Twenty-first Century: […]
Carolina Izquierdo’s work on spoiled children featured in the New Yorker
Post doctoral scholar and now visiting scholar Dr. Carolina Izquierdo’s work on spoiled children has been featured in an article in the New Yorker. The article contrasts the roles and behaviors of Amazonian hunter-gather children […]
Prof. Jeff Brantingham maps gang turf
Anthropology Department Professor Jeff Brantingham and coauthors have had their paper “The Ecology of Gang Territorial Boundaries” published in the journal Criminology. The researchers employed a mathematical model used for years […]
Center For Everyday Lives Of Families Researchers Publish “Life At Home In The Twenty-First Century”
CELF and Anthropology Department researchers Jeanne Arnold, Anthony Graesh, and Elinor Ochs have published Life at Home in the Twenty-First Century: 32 Families Open Their Doors, the first book based on […]
Prof. Jeff Brantingham’s gang mapping work on the front page of La Opinion
The article (in Spanish) can be read here.
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