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39th Annual Meeting of the Alaska Anthropological Association to take place in Seattle
The University of Washington Department of Anthropology, and the Burke Museum of Natural and Cultural History, will sponsor the 39th Annual Meeting of the Alaska Anthropological Association on February 29 - March 3, 2012. On-line registration begins December 15, 2011.
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The Department of Anthropology at the University of Washington was launched in the 1920s by Leslie Spier and
Melville Jacobs. Both were students of Franz Boas, as was Erna Gunther who took the reins in 1929 and under whose
lively leadership the department grew for a quarter of a century.
Today, we are a large, and still lively, department that includes 35 faculty members and houses three academic subdisciplines into which our undergraduate and graduate programs are apportioned: archaeology, biocultural anthropology, and sociocultural anthropology. In addition we offer a concurrent MPH/PhD program, and a specialization in medical anthropology and global health.
While pursuing a wide range of theoretical and methodological approaches, we all work toward a common goal,
namely to document and understand our many interconnected ways of being human in a world now inhabited by six
billion people speaking five thousand languages.
For a brief summary of our program view the Department of Anthropology Fact Sheet.
At the heart of anthropology research, theory and practice lies a shared appreciation of and commitment to understanding all aspects of human difference. View the Department of Anthropology Diversity Mission Statement.
Anthropology makes a world of difference.
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