Understanding humanity in context
From prehistoric humanity all the way to contemporary cultural diversity, anthropologists engage with a wide range of issues and phenomena that affect individual and public life.
Waterloo's Anthropology research and teaching expertise covers three major sub-fields of the discipline: socio-cultural anthropology, archaeological anthropology, and biological (physical) anthropology.
FALL 2017 -- NEW COURSE
ANTH 222: Anthropologies of the Body
Instructor: Alexis Dolphin
Evening Course
No Prerequisites!
News
- Dec. 20, 2016SSHRC grants Insight award to UWaterloo Anthropology alumnus, Dr. James Waldram
- Nov. 8, 20167,000 Year old pollution hints at ancient innovation (Russell Adams featured)
Dr. Russell Adams and his colleagues in the Barqa Landscape Project may have discovered the world's first polluted river, dating to approximately 7,000 years ago in Tell Wadi Fanan, Jordan.
Read about Dr. Adams' exciting research on the Faculty of Arts web page.
- Sep. 27, 2016Robert Park quoted in Maclean's
Check out the September 14th article in Maclean's, HMS Terror: How the final Franklin ship was found for a quote by our very own Robert Park!
