CELEBRATING ANTHROPOLOGY
This year we celebrated our 10th anniversary as an independent department on campus, full of exciting seminars and discussions about the future of anthropology here at Purdue and around the world.
LATEST NEWS
4/17/2019 - Purdue Anthropology alumni, Dr. Sarah Schrader has just published a book based in part on her dissertation. Activity, Diet and Social Practice: Addressing Everyday Life in Human Skeletal Remains
3/21/19 – "Amanda Veile, an assistant professor of anthropology at Purdue University, and her team report that indigenous mothers in farming communities in Yucatán, Mexico, breastfeed for about 1.5 months longer following cesarean deliveries than they do following vaginal deliveries. Veile believes this is possible because the mothers live in an exceptionally supportive breastfeeding environment."
3/19/2019 - Congratulations to Laura Zanotti and colleagues on facilitating Purdue to receive a Sigrid Rausing Trust Foundation Grant. This work will support workshops with indigenous leaders in the Brazilian Amazon and travel to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change COP25 in Santiago, Chile.
3/8/2019 - Research led by Stacy Lindshield shows protected areas like national parks are effectively preserving many mammal species in Senegal. You can read about her research here.
