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Harvard Anthropology Class of 2023 Awards

May 18, 2023

The Department of Anthropology at Harvard University would like to extend its most sincere congratulations to our outstanding Class of 2023 graduates.

 

Evon Vogt Prize awarded by the Department of Anthropology for the best senior thesis in Social Anthropology.

  • to Jenna Cohn, class of 2023, for her project entitled “Reenvisioning Care in a Post-Roe World: Abortion Doulas as Activists, Care Workers, and Paramedical Actors”

 

Clyde Kluckhohn...

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Apostolos Andrikopoulos | Argonauts of West Africa

May 16, 2023

The Department of Anthropology at Harvard University is pleased to share that Apostolos Andrikopoulos, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow, recently published his book with The University of Chicago Press. The book, titled Argonauts of West Africa, explores unauthorized migration and kinship dynamics in a changing Europe and examines the paradoxes of kinship in the lives...

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Myriam Lamrani | Revolution Beyond the Event: The Afterlives of Radical Politics

May 15, 2023

The Department of Anthropology at Harvard University is pleased to share that Myriam Lamrani, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow, co-edited the recently-published book titled Revolution Beyond the Event: The Afterlives of Radical Politics.

This book brings together leading international anthropologists alongside emerging scholars to examine revolutionary legacies from the MENA region, Latin America and the Caribbean. It explores the idea that revolutions have varied afterlives that complicate the assumptions about their duration, pace and progression...

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Christina Warinner | Genetic population structure of the Xiongnu Empire at imperial and local scales

April 27, 2023

We're thrilled to share that Christina (Tina) Warinner, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences, is the co-senior author of a groundbreaking article, titled "Genetic population structure of the Xiongnu Empire at imperial and local scales," published in the journal Science Advances last week.

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Special Event, April 28-29 | Cultural Threads: Weavers' Memories from the Peruvian and Bolivian Andes

April 17, 2023

This event will be in-person and held in Spanish. 

The event includes two days of educational presentations on the practices and ancestral knowledge of the art of Andean textile production, shared directly by the voices of skilled artisans from Peru and Bolivia. There will be workshops, round tables, and cultural activities open to the general public, all accompanied by Andean music and poetry.

Come and meet the Andean Artisans, see demonstrations of weaving techniques from San Miguel and Tacabamba (Cajamarca, Peru) and Candelaria (Chuquisaca,...

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