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Department of Anthropology, University of Minnesota
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A world-class Anthropology program

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Planning your spring registration? Do you need a course that fulfills your Global Perspectives Liberal Education requirements? Check out Anth 3147 Digital Anth! More details at schedulebuilder.umn.edu/explore/2026...

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December 22, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Graduate student Jaewon Byun's (Anthropology) co-authored Korean textbook, Disability: Leaving the Institutional Setting (장애, 시설을 나서다), has been selected for the 2025 Sejong Books Awards
December 18, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Planning your spring registration? Check out what anthropology has to offer! More details at schedulebuilder.umn.edu/explore/2026...

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December 17, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Planning your spring registration? Do you want to take part in a new course!? Check out Anth 3018/5018 Bioarcheology! More details at schedulebuilder.umn.edu/explore/2026...
December 16, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Planning your spring registration? Do you want to take part in a new course!? Check out Anth 3024/5024 Forensic Anthropology! More details at schedulebuilder.umn.edu/explore/2026...
December 15, 2025 at 2:31 PM
We’re excited to highlight our PhD Candidate Yun Feng’s new publication, Promoting Baokuan: Human-Machine “Gambling Games” between Villages and Algorithms, in the journal Ethnography (doi.org/10.1177/1466...)!
December 12, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Wishing all our students good luck on finals! We know you will do great!
December 12, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Planning your spring registration? Do you need a course that fulfills your Writing Intensive Education requirements? Check out Anth 4003W Contemporary Perspectives in Social Anthropology! More details at schedulebuilder.umn.edu/explore/2026...

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December 11, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Planning your spring registration? Do you want to take part in a new course!? Check out Anth 3310 Human-Wildlife Interactions! More details at schedulebuilder.umn.edu/explore/2026...

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December 10, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Check out the Department of Anthropology's Course Offerings for next Semester: cla.umn.edu/anthropology...
December 10, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Planning your spring registration? Do you need a course that fulfills your writing-intensive requirement? Check out Anth 3242W Hero, Savage, or Equal? Representations of Non-Western Peoples in the Movies! More details at schedulebuilder.umn.edu/explore/2026...
December 9, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Today Eve Krakowski (Princeton University) will be speaking on “How the Ketubba Became Jewish.” at 7:30 pm

Details: z.umn.edu/antheve
Eve Krakowski (Princeton University) Presents: How the Ketubba Became Jewish
The ketubba, or Jewish marriage contract, is the best-recognized and most widely-used kind of Jewish legal document. But it is also the sole surviving descendant of an ancient Aramaic contract-writing...
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December 9, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Planning your spring registration? Do you need a course that fulfills your Global Perspectives Education requirement? Check out Anth 2006/3006 Humans & Aliens! More details at schedulebuilder.umn.edu/explore/2026...

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December 8, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Planning your spring registration? Do you need a course that fulfills your Global Perspectives and Historical Perspectives Liberal Education requirements? Check out Anth 3016/5016 African Archaeology! More details at schedulebuilder.umn.edu/explore/2026...

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December 8, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Anthropology PhD candidate Muhammad Osama Imran has been selected as the 2025 winner of the Society for Psychological Anthropology's Condon Prize for his paper "“Through the Frayed Veil: Spectral Madness and Sufi Ethics in Pakistan".
December 5, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Planning your spring registration? Do you need a course that fulfills your Global Perspectives, Writing Intensive, and/or Social Sciences Education requirements? We still have space in Anth 1003 Understanding Cultures! More details at schedulebuilder.umn.edu/explore/2026...

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December 5, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Planning your spring registration? Do you need a course that fulfills your biological sciences liberal education requirement? There is still space in Anth 1001 Human Evolution! More details at schedulebuilder.umn.edu/explore/2026...

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December 5, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Planning your spring registration? Do you need a course that fulfills your diversity and social justice, social sciences, and writing-intensive liberal education requirements? Check out Anth 3005W Language, Culture, and Power! More details schedulebuilder.umn.edu/explore/2026...

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December 5, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Planning your spring registration? Do you want to take a new topics course focused on the queering of Europe? Check out Anth 3980! More details at schedulebuilder.umn.edu/explore/2026...

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December 5, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Today Jason Read (University of Southern Maine) will be speaking about "Other Scenes: Bailbar and Tosel on Class Struggle and the Struggle Over Identity" at 3pm

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Other Scenes: Balibar and Tosel on Class Struggle and the Struggle over Identity
Join CSCL for an upcoming colloquium with Jason Read (University of Southern Maine).
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December 5, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Eve Krakowski (Princeton University) will be speaking on December 9th at 7:30 pm about “How the Ketubba Became Jewish.”

Details: z.umn.edu/antheve
Eve Krakowski (Princeton University) Presents: How the Ketubba Became Jewish
The ketubba, or Jewish marriage contract, is the best-recognized and most widely-used kind of Jewish legal document. But it is also the sole surviving descendant of an ancient Aramaic contract-writing...
z.umn.edu
December 1, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Anthropology PhD Candidate, Berkant Caglar has been selected as the 2025 winner of the Association for Queer Anthropology's Kenneth Payne Prize for his paper, "The Woman Who Fell from the Window: Suicide, Moralization of Femicide and Trans Precarity."
November 25, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Check out the Department of Anthropology's Course Offerings for next Semester: cla.umn.edu/anthropology...
Spring 2026 Anthropology Courses
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November 24, 2025 at 7:05 PM