Chinese kinship and social organization; ritual and political symbolism; social stratification; migration; historical ethnography; social aspects of food and eating; China, Taiwan and Britain.
Dr. Watson is Fairbank Professor of Chinese...
The urban process and exchange networks that tie the Near East, the Persian Gulf, the Arabian peninsula, and Central Asia into spheres of economic and political interaction.
C.C. Lamberg-Karlovsky, the Stephen Phillips Professor of...
Theory and method; embodiment and commodification; ritual and religion; medicine; politics and ideology; crime and forensics; colonialism; Southern Africa.
Jean Comaroff was educated at the University of Cape Town and the...
Michael Herzfeld is Ernest E. Monrad Professor of the Social Sciences Emeritus in the Department of Anthropology at Harvard University; IIAS Visiting Professor of Critical Heritage Studies Emeritus, Leiden University; and a member of the doctoral program...
Linguistic anthropology, film studies, anthropology of water, Middle East Studies.
Since the beginning of his career, Caton has been a specialist of Arabic and the Middle East, with an emphasis on Yemen and the Arabian...
Social Studies of Science, Technology, and Medicine; Global Health, Public Health, Health Policy; Anthropology of the State, Governance, and Public Policy; Obesity Epidemic; The Politics of Reproduction/Population; Gender Studies...
Archaeology of South and West Asia; the Indus Civilization; Zooarchaeology; domestication of animals; origins of agriculture.
Dr. Richard H. Meadow is Director of the Zooarchaeology Laboratory at the Peabody Museum of Harvard...
