Cultural Anthropology at Cornell University

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Cultural anthropology at Cornell University is taught as sociocultural anthropology through the Department of Anthropology in the College of Arts and Sciences. 

Program Overview

Focus: Research and teaching emphasize ethnography, social theory, medicine, politics, inequality, finance, gender, and post-coloniality. 
Global Reach: Faculty and students conduct fieldwork across Asia (South, East, and Southeast), the Americas, Africa, Europe, and the circumpolar North. 
Interdisciplinary Ties: The field has strong links to area studies and programs like American Indian and Indigenous Studies and Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. 

Curriculum & Requirements

Undergraduate Major: Requires a minimum of ten courses, including introductory coursework spanning sociocultural, archaeological, and biological anthropology with no prior prerequisites needed to declare. 
Graduate Training: The Ph.D. program heavily emphasizes sociocultural anthropology, offering an individualized, research-focused curriculum requiring intensive fieldwork. 
Resources: Students utilize the Anthropology Collections, which house roughly 20,000 ethnographic and archaeological artifacts. 

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