{"id":8777,"date":"2026-02-09T15:56:02","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T20:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/academics\/?page_id=8777"},"modified":"2026-04-07T22:15:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T02:15:45","slug":"anthropology","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/academics\/majors-and-minors\/anthropology\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthropology"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Anthropologists investigate cultural variation, with particular attention to race, gender, ethnicity, political and social change, and human evolution.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Anthropology is the study of what it means to be human. The Bates Department of Anthropology specializes in sociocultural anthropology, with forays into archaeology and linguistics. We focus on analyses of social challenges and opportunities and train students in systems-level thinking, attuning our students to how meaning and power are created and contested in everyday life. Our anthropology program emphasizes the importance of global study while preparing students to critically examine their own cultures.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Tobie Akerley Gordon
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How to read and think critically and design multifaceted responses to challenging questions<\/h6>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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To collaborate with faculty in ongoing research projects through coursework and\/or independent projects<\/h6>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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The purpose of ethnographic fieldwork and how to conduct it<\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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How to construct and deliver compelling arguments in both oral and written form<\/h6>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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To develop the skills and adaptability to navigate our rapidly changing world<\/h6>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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How to present unique findings to peers and mentors at regional and national conferences<\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Our students leave Bates with a strong understanding of and ability to engage in ethnographic work. Graduates are creative and effective oral, visual, and written communicators and skilled observers of social life who are able to connect theory and practice in their lives and careers after Bates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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of 2020-2024 Bates graduates are employed and\/or attending graduate school \u2014 settled into their next opportunity within 6 months of graduation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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