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The Tufts Department of Anthropology has moved to the third floor of Eaton Hall. Telephone numbers and email addresses remain the same.
In the News
Professor David Guss brings anthropology to local communities
Jonathan M. Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service
Newsletter, November 2009
Claude Lévi-Strauss obituary
French anthropologist whose analysis of kinship and myth gave rise to structuralism as an intellectual force
by Maurice Bloch
The Guardian, November 3, 2009
Anthropology, Religion departments celebrate move to Eaton Hall
by Alexa Rosenthal
The Tufts Daily, October 16, 2009
Discovery of 'Ardi' is not news inside academic community
by Mary Beth Griggs
The Tufts Daily, October 16, 2009
The real distraction at the wheel
by Lucia Huntington
The Boston Globe, October 14, 2009
Captive Audience
The Brief Theatrical Career of an American P.O.W. in Nazi Germany
By David M. Guss
Tufts Magazine, Winter 2009
Past Events
Honk! Festival
Festival of Activist Street Bands
October 9-11, 2009
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Honk! Comes to the Neighborhoods
East Somerville Library Lawn
October 9, 2009 5:30-7:30 pm
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Peace and Development in Tumultuous Guatemala
October Art Exhibit, Slater Concourse Gallery, Aidekman Arts Center
Tufts University Art Gallery
Reception October 22, 2009, 8:00 pm
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Dinner & Movie with the Anthropology
Collective & Women's Center
April 16, 2009 at 6:00 PM, Women's Center
Screening of Changeling, dinner and discussion led by Prof. Sarah Pinto and Steph Gauchel,
Director of the Women's Center
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Live from Bethlehem
Screening and discussion with producer Joseph Sousa,
Emmy-nominated writer, director, and producer for public
and commercial television
March 30, 2009 at 7:00 Terrace Room, Paige Hall
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Anthropology Collective Pre-registration event
Brown Bag Q&A Session
April 1, 2009 at Noon, 126 Curtis Street
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Anna Tsing
Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar and Professor of Anthropology
University of California, Santa Cruz
Annual GBAC Distinguished Lecture
"Supply Chains and the Human Condition"
April 6, 2009 at 5:00 Sophia Gordon Hall
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Anthropology Majors Week Event
March 10, 2009 at 12:00, 126 Curtis Street
Arthur Kleinman
Professor of Anthropology, Harvard University
Professor of Medical Anthropology & Psychiatry at HMS
"Moral Experience in Times of Danger & Uncertainty"
March 11, 2009 at 6:00 Sophia Gordon Hall
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Greater Boston Anthropology Consortium
Student Conference
February 27, 2009 at Wellesley College
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Tufts Anthropology Collective
Tuesdays, January 27th, February 24 at 9:15 pm
Celebrating Immigrant Arts in Somerville
Sunday, December 14, 2008, 4:30-7:30 PM
The Mystic Activity Center
530 Mystic Ave., Somerville
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Greater Boston Anthropology Consortium
Call for Papers 2009
Abstract & Biography due December 5, 2008
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Immigrant City: Then and Now Exhibit
Opening Reception, November 6, 2008, 5:30 - 8:30
Slater Concourse Gallery, Aidekman, Tufts Gallery
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Anthropology Collective Pre-Registration Conversation
November 5, 2008, 12:00-1:00, 126 Curtis Street
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Honk! Festival
October 10-12, 2008
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Harmony in the Age of Noise
"Exploring the politics of the senses at Tufts University"
A sound art installation on the Tisch Library roof
Opens April 23, 2008
Installation will be up until August 10, 2008
Read more at www.age-of-noise.net
Questioning the New Public Paradigm:
Views on Civic Engagement from Four Public Disciplines
2008 Public Anthropology Roundtable, Greater Boston Anthropology Consortium
Friday, April 18, 2008, 2:30 PM
The Humanities Center (48 Professors Row)
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Ethnographic Film: N!ai: The Story of an !Kung Woman
Tuesday, April 8, 7:30 PM
126 Curtis Street, Medford Campus
This film chronicles the decline of the !Kung tribe through the story of one woman, N!ai, who is filmed both in her childhood in a food-foraging society, and 25 years later as a displaced person infected with tuberculosis. Through the biographical narrative, the film provides a personal account of the devastating consequences of western contact. Directed by John Marshall, 1980.
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Ethnographic Film: The Wedding Camels: A Turkana Marriage
Tuesday, April 15, 7:30 PM
126 Curtis Street, Medford Campus
In a culture where marriage arrangements are principally economic, Judy and David MacDougall examine the consequences of a Turkana family's acquiescence to an insufficient bride price.
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"Immigrant City: Then and Now" An exhibit at the Somerville Museum
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Greater Boston Anthropology Consortium
Student Conference, Brandeis University
Friday, February 29, 2008
Indigenous Movements and Intellectuals in the Americas: A Symposium
Friday, April 20, 2007
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Greater Boston Anthropology Consortium:
4th Annual Student Conference
March 9, 2007
The Anthropology Collective’s
Fall Roundtable: Why we do Anthropology
Thursday, November 16th at 6pm
The
Anthropology Collective Faculty Meet & Greet
Wednesday, December 1st, 11:50am. - 1:05pm., Eaton 102
Third Annual
Greater Boston Anthropology Consortium Student Conference
Friday, 10 March 2006 9:00-5:30 pm
Tishman Commons (LWC-105) Lulu Chow Wang Center Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
Anthropology Majors Week Event
Wednesday, March 1, 2006, 12:00-1:15, Eaton 123
Reenactment and the Memory of War
October Roundtable
Tuesday, October 25, 2005, 4:30-6:00 pm
Rabb Room, Lincoln-Filene Center
Greater Boston Anthropology Consortium
Public Anthropology: A Roundtable Discussion
Thursday November 11, 2004, 4.30-7.00 PM
A Gathering of Voices: Latino Studies and Pedagogies for Building Community
Saturday, May 1, 2004 8:30am-6:00pm
Greater Boston Anthropology Consortium 2/27/04
Rockin Las Americas: The Global Politics of Rock in Latin/o America
Bellagio Conference and Book
In the News Archives
Top Ten | Things to Put on the Library Roof
Tufts Daily Weekender Section, March 6, 2008
Students contribute to sound-art project for library roof
by Gilian Javetski
Tufts Daily, March 6, 2008
'Harmony in the Age of Noise' creates a buzz on the library roof
by Jessica Bal
Tufts Daily, March 6, 2006
Continuing to remember...
by Jesse Kawa
Medford Transcript, May 11, 2006
Cultural Context
by Brian Loeb
inside.tufts.edu, March 15, 2006
Anthropology, sociology: Two better than one
by Jeff Lindsay
Tufts Daily, December 07, 2005
Tufts Students Help Record Medford History
Tufts e-news
Proud legacy
West Medford remains a jewel of African-American history
by Helene Ragovin
Tufts Journal
A history to remember
By Nell Escobar Coakley
Medford Transcript
Six professors discuss state of public anthropology
By Danny Lutz
Tufts Daily
The Lost Theaters and the Bad News Devils: A Profile of Professor David Guss
by Mara Judd
Tufts Observer
Anthropology students take coursework beyond the classroom
by Emily Craighead
Tufts Daily
Uncovering the Past
Tufts e-news