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

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February 12th-15th at various locations Archives on Screen (AoS) will bring brings rare, unseen archival films from around the globe to Minnesota! Please see mspfilm.org/il-cinema-ri... for more information and to purchase tickets.
January 8, 2026 at 2:04 PM
UMN Anthro PhD student Jaime Zolik and Prof. Maria Nieves Colón @mitopr.bsky.social were interviewed on Ep. 66 the @anthrobiology.bsky.social podcast about their aDNA research with community partners in Peru. Listen now: anthrobiology.com/episodes/

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January 5, 2026 at 2:17 PM
Happy New Year from the Department of Anthropology. What are your New Year's resolutions?
January 2, 2026 at 2:18 PM
Planning your spring registration? Check out what anthropology has to offer! More details at schedulebuilder.umn.edu/explore/2026...
December 31, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Planning your spring registration? Check out Anth 5221 Anthropology of Material Culture! More details at schedulebuilder.umn.edu/explore/2026...

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December 29, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Planning your spring registration? Check out Anth 3301 Fundamentals of Anthropological Genetics! More details at schedulebuilder.umn.edu/explore/2026...

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December 23, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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