| Anthropology
College of Social Sciences
Social Science 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. 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
*A. Howard, PhD--cultural anthropology, adaptation to change,
ethnological theory; Polynesia
*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
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
R. Borofsky, PhD--anthropology of knowledge, symbolic analysis, medical
anthropology; Polynesia
S. Falgout, PhD--social and historical anthropology; Micronesia,
Hawai‘i
J. Fox, PhD--land use, forest resources and management, geographical
information systems, and spatial information technology; South and
Southeast Asia
T. D. Holland, PhD--physical and forensic anthropology, skeletal
biology; U.S. Midwest, Southeast Asia S. A. Lebo, PhD--historical
archaeology, 19th century Euro-American and Asian ceramic analysis;
Hawai‘i, United States
G. G. Maskarinec, PhD--linguistic anthropology; Himalayas and South
Asia
W. B. Masse, PhD--archaeological analysis of marine faunal remains;
Micronesia
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
*Graudate 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. |