Hi! My name is Kurt and I have been out of school for about 2 years now. I graduated with a BA in Biology and a minor in Anthropology. I then went on to get a Masters in Biology. I have been trying to get into medical school for a while and it's just not panning out for me, and honestly I have lost interest in the path altogether. I've recently ( Read more... )

Hi, I'm Kimberly and I'm a high school senior that's starting to apply to colleges. I'm looking to become a religious archaeologist, focusing primarily on Judaism and early Christianity. I was wondering if anyone could recommend any good schools. My dream school would be University of North Carolina- Charlotte, but I'm also applying to the ( Read more... )

Hi! My name is Macy and I'm a junior in high school. I love the TV show BONES so I decided to actually look into anthropology. You know, just for fun. I discovered that I no longer wanted to study sociology when I got into college, but I want to study anthropology. My questions are ( Read more... )

I'm an undergrad (roughly a junior) who aspires to enter the field of Medical Anthropology and possibly work with the CDC and WHO. So, at the moment I'm majoring in Anthropology and I am about to go to my advisor to talk about getting a minor in Public Health ( Read more... )

I'm just finishing up my IRB (Institutional Review Board; someplaces also called a Human Subjects Committee) paperwork for my dissertation (political science, but using ethnography as my main method).  I'm finding it incredibly difficult to translate the ethnographic process into IRB-appropriate soundbytes.  I was wondering how other people have ( Read more... )

 Did anyone here get a MA or PHD in Environmental Anthropology? If so, where? How was it/what was it like? What do you do now? 

Ages ago, I remember reading or seeing something involving a comparison of the fall of Rome to modern American society and it's potential future, in the style of Jared Diamond's Collapse. I don't remember anything else about it, but I've been trying to find it or some similar work since then. Please let me know if you have any information about ( Read more... )

Hey. I'm doing my final project in my Cultural Anthropology class (I'm a freshman majoring in anthro) and I'm so confused as to what this question means:
3. Choose a modern anthropological theory in which to base your research
... whats a modern anthropological theory?
Sorry if this is a dumb question.
Thanks!

It's spring and time to write a paper on an ethnography again; this time it's for my magic, witchcraft and sorcery class. There are a lot of options out there, but does anybody have any favorites in this area?

edit: as i mentioned the other day, i might be heading to India this summer. anything nifty out there dealing w/ that part of the world?

As posted earlier I'm a Senior... well not only do I have that paper going on but I have two other research papers (one's a history one). My other history paper is on dogs in ancient north America (the class is America Before Columbus). I'm actually pretty excited about this paper seeing as I love dogs and I found out just by reading one of the ( Read more... )