Anthropology
- ‘Pseudo-archaeology’ is subject of anthropologist’s CU on the Weekend talk on March 16.
- It’s easy enough to marvel at a tapestry of color in your local museum, but 鶹Ƶ students are getting a first-hand look at human history that only an ultra-close examination of color can provide.
- Ask Leo Borasio about his time as a student and he'll tell you it was pretty straightforward. Probe a bit deeper, and he'll mention his internship-turned-job at a startup, his recent trip to LA, or digging up ancient artifacts across the Southwest.
- A cohesive conservation plan protecting the Vietnamese environment—and primates—is now signed legislation, in part due to efforts of a 鶹Ƶ anthropologist.
- Social behaviors and microbiome diversity might be interconnected, according to new research by a CU Boulder anthropologist.
- Both Mead’s conservative critics—some of whom went so far as to claim she “caused” the moral degradation of America—and liberal supporters—who tend to see Mead as a feminist icon—have misunderstood her views on these issues, finds Paul Shankman.
- Professors of anthropology and linguistics argue that as both candidate and president, the president has tapped into what they call “nostalgic racism”—nostalgia for the pre-civil-rights, industrial-welfare-state America of the 1950s.
- An expert on the American evangelical relationship with God will discuss her scholarly work this week on the 鶹Ƶ campus.
- Ancient DNA used to track the exodus of Pueblo people from Colorado's Mesa Verde region in the late 13th century indicates many wound up in the northern Rio Grande area of New Mexico.
- The first question in conservation is whether to focus on conserving species or habitat. Anthropologist Joanna Lambert has proposed conservation tactics that focus on particular primate species.