Michael Tomasello, Duke University and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Humans are biologically adapted for cultural life in ways that other primates are not. Humans have unique motivations […]
Dorsa Amir, Boston College Department of Psychology The human behavioral repertoire is uniquely diverse, with an unmatched flexibility that has allowed our species to flourish in every ecology on the planet. […]
MMAC is pleased to be hosting Elizabeth Fein to discuss her book Living on the Spectrum: Autism and Youth in Community (NYU Press, 2020), a two year, multi-sited ethnographic study […]
Paul Smaldino, Department of Cognitive and Information Sciences, University of California, Merced Identity signals are common components of communication transmissions that inform receivers of the signaler’s membership (or non-membership) in […]
MMAC will not meet on 15 February in observance of Presidents’ Day. **(Please follow link to RSVP: https://forms.gle/vD8ewv98SwmCbJF7A)** ***If you are already on the permanent Zoom RSVP list please do […]
A BOOK CELEBRATION! The Department of Anthropology cordially invites you to come celebrate a new book by Dr. Diane C. Perlov, VP of Exhibits at the California Science Center UCLA […]
Manvir Singh, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse Human societies reliably develop “cultural super-attractors”, or complex practices and beliefs that exhibit striking similarities. In this talk, I […]
Mind, Medicine, and Culture is pleased to welcome back one of our own recent graduates, Dr. Yael Assor. Her presentation and the reading draw on her doctoral research with a […]
Anna I. Corwin is a linguistic and psychological anthropologist. She received her PhD from UCLA and is an assistant professor of anthropology at Saint Mary’s College of California. Her research […]
Part 4 of the Race, Racism, Policing and State Violence series Bathumi Ayul Abwol Dak, Research Coordinator, Diversity for Strategic Studies. Editor in Chief, Wajuma News Teatro do Oprimado (Theatre of […]
BEC is pleased to co-sponsor the following event with The American Indian Studies Center, the Institute for Society and Genetics, and the Culture, Power, and Social Change Group. Note special […]
This panel is part of a series of teach-ins on the Burmese Democracy Movement, organized with the goal of disseminating knowledge about violence perpetrated against political activist communities in Burma. […]
