This track explores the relationship between language and mind. Students will learn about the meanings and functions of language, the ways in which language is produced and comprehended, how it is ...

investigators have tended to view navigation either through the lens of cognition or of experience and embodiment. The cognitive approach assumes that perceptually salient aspects of the environment ...

Caleb Everett, PhD, is the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, and a professor of Anthropology, and Linguistics and Cognitive Science. His research explores linguistic, cognitive and cultural ...

Cultural evolution describes how socially learned ideas, rules, and skills are transmitted and change over time, giving rise to diverse forms of social organization, belief systems, languages, ...

Parrots are famous for their remarkable cognitive abilities and exceptionally long lifespans. Now, a study led by Max Planck researchers has shown that one of these traits has likely been caused by ...

This course is a mini-seminar -- a half-semester course aimed at exposing students to a broad array of perspectives in a manner that equips them for subsequent independent or group work. Graduate ...

Rita Astuti is an expert of the anthropology of Madagascar. Her writings, based on extensive fieldwork conducted since the late 80s, have been about kinship, personhood, gender, group identity and ...

This course is compulsory on the PhD in Anthropology. This course is not available as an outside option to students on other programmes. This seminar course has two main aims. First, it examines key ...