The faculty in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology has a combined interest in culture and society. Because the world in which we live is so diverse and interconnected, our mission is to ...

News about Archaeology and Anthropology, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

The Matson Museum of Anthropology has reopened in a new space in the recently built Susan Welch Liberal Arts Building, and ...

The theme of the 58th annual Smithsonian Folklife festival, running July 2 through 7, is “Youth and the Future of Culture.” ...

When Abesalom Kavelashvili announced on LinkedIn that he had been appointed art director of Apple, the global design ...

The answer may lie in the 2019 Puerto Rican Revolution — an event that was not a revolution but a powerful display of the ...

Interactive projects exploring teen life completed by Bethesda-Chevy Chase High students will be shown at the Smithsonian ...

Today's avocado industry, a multi-billion-dollar global enterprise, relies primarily on a single variety: the Hass avocado.

New York Times bestselling author, Ball State Assistant Teaching Professor and Co-founder of The Facing Project, Kelsey ...

Art, Faith, Sex and Controversy' investigates pop culture’s crypto-religious, uncanny symbols of immanence and transcendence.

Scientists have discovered the temple of a mysterious lost civilization in the Bolivian Andes that suddenly disappeared over ...

Anthropology News. Read about early human culture, civilizations and latest discoveries at ancient sites in our anthropology news.