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: sociocultural anthropology, archaeological anthropology, and biological anthropology.

Events

Seçil Dagtaș and the cover of her book, "Under the Same Sky: Everyday Politics of Religious Difference in Southern Turkey"

Seçil Dagtaș, Associate Professor of Anthropology, examines how unevenly situated minority and refugee groups at Turkey’s national margins forge each other’s existence through reproducing religious differences amid various forms of precarity, political polarization, and structural violence.

Brown bag presentation

Join us for our next Brown Bag Series talk by Paul Szpak entitled The Landscape of Llama Husbandry in the Andes before the Arrival of Europeans

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