| Anthropology
College of Social Sciences
Social Sciences 346
2424 Maile Way
Honolulu, HI 96822
Tel: (808) 956-8415
Fax: (808) 956-4893
Web: www2.soc.hawaii.edu/css/anth/
Faculty
*P. B. Griffin, PhD (Chair)-archaeology and ethnology of hunter-gatherers, technology; Southeast Asia
*J. M. Bayman, PhD-archaeology, craft production, political economy; North America, U.S. Southwest
*J. M. Bilmes, PhD-linguistic anthropology, social interaction, discourse; Thailand
*C. F. Blake, PhD-critical theory, folk and popular culture, ideology, social movements in the modern world; China
*D. Brown, PhD-physical anthropology, medical anthropology; Polynesia
*A. G. Dewey, PhD-economics, kinship, Javanese conceptual frameworks; Southeast Asia, Pacific
*N. L. Etkin, PhD-biological and medical anthropology, ethnobotony, diet, ethnopharmacology, human variability, infectious disease; West Africa, Pacific, Indonesia
*B. R. Finney, PhD-socioeconomic change, cultural adaptation to sea and space; Pacific Islands
*M. W. Graves, PhD-archaeology, ethnoarchaeology, evolution of social complexity, quantitative analysis; U.S. Southwest, Oceania
*T. Hunt, PhD-archaeology, paleoenvironmental reconstruction, evolutionary theory, archaeometry, ceramics; Oceania
*M. Pietrusewsky, PhD-physical and forensic anthropology, human evolution, skeletal biology, bioarchaeology, craniology, distance studies; Pacific and Asia
*B. V. Rolett, PhD-archaeology, archaeozoology, island colonization; Oceania-Polynesia
*L. E. Sponsel, PhD-biological and cultural anthropology, human ecology, foragers, tropical forests, Buddhist ecology, peace studies, human rights and advocacy; Southeast Asia (Thailand), Amazon (Venezuela)
*M. Stark, PhD-archaeology ecology, early village economics, ceramics, ethnoarchaeology; Southeast Asia, U. S. Southwest
*G. M. White, PhD-psychological anthropology, cognition and language, mental health; Melanesia
*C. Yano, PhD-cultural anthropology, popular culture, ethnomusicology, cultural nationalism, emotions; Japan, Japanese Americans
Cooperating Graduate Faculty
R. Cann, PhD-physical anthropology, anthropological genetics, human populations
E. Dreschal, PhD-historical sociolinguistics, ethnohistory, North American Indians; North America
S. Falgout, PhD-social and historical anthropology; Micronesia, Hawai'i
D. Gladney, PhD-ethnicity, nationalism, public culture, religious ideology; China, Central Asia, Turkey
J. Hanna, PhD-physiological anthropology
M. Kelly, MA-cultural anthropology, history of land use; Hawai'i
J. Y. Okamura, PhD-ethnicity and ethnic relations, minority higher education; Philippines, Hawai'i
Affiliate Graduate Faculty
J. S. Athens, PhD-evolutionary and agricultural ecology, epistemology of science, archaeology of South America, Micronesia and Hawai'i
N. Barker, PhD-cultural anthropology, religious self-mortification, culture concept, theory of ritual, self-sacrifice and the body; Philippines, Asia
R. Borofsky, PhD-anthropology of knowledge, symbolic analysis, medical anthropology; Polynesia
J. Fox, PhD-land use, forest resources and management, geographical information systems, and spatial information technology; South and Southeast Asia
L. Hartzell, PhD-zooarchaeology, foragers; Hawai'i, Australia West, North America
T. D. Holland, PhD-physical and forensic anthropology, skeletal biology; U.S. Midwest, Southeast Asia
G. G. Maskarinec, PhD-linguistic anthropology; Himalayas and South Asia
W. B. Masse, PhD-archaeological analysis of marine faunal remains; Micronesia
D. I. Olszewski, PhD-archaeology, lithics, hunter-gatherer adaptations, Hawai'i, U.S. Southeast, Middle East
T. Rambo, PhD-human ecology, development and change in traditional societies, ethnology of Southeast Asia
Y. Sinoto, DSc-archaeology, ethnology; Polynesia and Japan
D. J. Welch, PhD-archaeology; Hawai'i, Micronesia, Thailand
P. Xenos, PhD-social and historical demography; Southeast Asia
D. E. Yen, PhD-ethnobotany; Oceania, Southeast Asia
*Graduate Faculty
Degrees Offered: BA in anthropology, MA in anthropology, PhD in anthropology
The Academic Program
Anthropology (ANTH) is the study of humankind, of the origin and evolution of our species, and of the ways of life of ancient and modern people. It is divided into four main subdisciplines: physical anthropology, archaeology, anthropological linguistics, and cultural anthropology. While physical anthropologists focus upon our biological nature, cultural anthropologists deal with the ways of life of past and present ages. Anthropological linguists look at language as a part of human behavior, while archaeologists study the remains of past cultures to reconstruct former lifestyles.
Students of anthropology gain a basic understanding of the origin and development of humanity useful both for understanding the human condition and as a preparation for work in many fields, not just in anthropology. For example, the department offers a uniquely broad range of courses on the cultures of Asia and the Pacific, as well as on aspects of American society, that provide students with a fund of cultural knowledge and insights upon which to build a career in law, medicine, public health, teaching, business, and other professions. While some BA graduates in anthropology do find employment in anthropology, normally an MA or PhD is required to work as an anthropologist in a university, museum, or other institution. The department has a long-standing graduate program, which trains students in all aspects of anthropology, focusing especially on Asia and the Pacific region. The training emphasizes field research; in any one year students are engaged in such projects as excavating an ancient religious temple on Tahiti, recording ritual life in rural Java, or analyzing the social system of a Japanese factory.
Bachelor's Degree
Requirements
Students must complete 31 credit hours, including these required courses:
- ANTH 200, 210, 215, 215L and 305
- Six 300- and 400-level courses
Three of the 300- and 400-level courses may be from related disciplines with prior approval of the student's adviser. |
