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Why Anthropology?
Studying cultural diversity is simultaneously humbling and thrilling.
Photo: C. Rouse, Ghana fieldwork
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Why Anthropology?
Question + Theory + Place on the Globe + Interlocutors ➡ Now Go!
Photo: A. Johnson, Thailand fieldwork
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Why Anthropology?
Real empathy comes from making sense of the values and beliefs of others.
Photo: C. Rouse, Ghana fieldwork
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Why Anthropology?
Socio-cultural anthropology, linguistic anthropology, biological anthropology, archaeology – What more is there to say?
Photo: J. Himpele, Bolivia fieldwork
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Why Anthropology?
Anthropology is the study of human cultures, so it was a privilege to be able to send our students to the birthplace of modern humans over spring break.
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Why Anthropology?
In Kenya, our students had a chance to experience first hand the technologies, food, language histories, environments, and belief systems that enabled humans to eventually populate almost every corner of the world.

We are deeply saddened to report that our colleague, Isabelle Clark-Decès, died Thursday, June 29, 2017 in northern India.

Professor Clark-Decès died after falling in the village of Mussoorie, where she was leading a Princeton Institute of International and Regional Studies Global Seminar, "At Home (And Abroad) in the Indian Himalayas."

Professor Clark-Decès joined the faculty in 1996 and has directed the program in South Asian Studies since 2007.

Her passion for her fieldwork and interlocutors in India was unrivaled, and Isabelle imparted this love on her students.

Isabelle has left us an extraordinary body of research on religion and kinship in South Asia. She also leaves behind an international network of South Asian scholars whom she generously hosted and mentored over the years.

We will greatly miss her as a teacher, scholar, colleague and friend.

Ethnographic Studies Certificate Program

Providing training in ethnographic methods and field research to undergraduates in concentrations outside Anthropology. Students in all divisions are welcome (Humanities, Social Sciences, Natural Sciences and Engineering).

Ethnographic Data Visualization

Dedicated to advancing innovation in ethnography for the 21st century. The VizE Lab is a hybrid online-offline platform and hub for researchers interested in curating digital data and creating audio-visual materials for ethnography, such as data visualizations, documentary films and interactive websites.

Center on Transnational Policing

The CTP will bring together Princeton scholars and students to understand policing in the U.S. and internationally. As the hub of a wider social scientific research network, the Center’s mission will be to explore policing from a transnational approach. Coming in academic year 2017-2018.