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Cultural Anthropology: an exploration of human possibility.
Novelist Amitav Ghosh and cellist Yo-yo Ma learned to see global cultural diversity through anthropology.
Fantasy and science-fiction writers - Samuel R. Delaney, Ursula K. Leguin,
Kurt Vonnegut, China Miéille - have
enlarged their imaginations through anthropology. Anthropology can open your mind.
Cultural Anthropology: a conversation with the dispossessed.
Activists in the fields of human rights, environmental protection, feminism, and social justice train in cultural
anthropology. Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! studied anthropology, as did Apollo Alliance's Michael Shellenberger.
Activist musicians Tracy Chapman and Johnny Clegg were inspired by anthropology. Mary Allegretti, environmental
advocate and Brazil's former Secretary for Amazonia, is an anthropologist. Anthropology tells of the life force
of the oppressed.
Cultural Anthropology: the study of partial connections.
Follow colonial inscriptions through Africa or witness
the death of authentic primitive art and other tales of
progress. Find Chinese breathing spaces or explore upriver in Amazonia. Work into
Chicana traditions, study
tribes in India, and experience the friction of environmental crisis in Indonesia. Learn about these, and much
more, in undergraduate and graduate anthropology classes.
Cultural Anthropology: an opportunity for good talk.
Gossip with Fijian Islanders. Stand convicted by the Holy Spirit in
Jerry Falwell's church. Hear out Russians who
refuse to live by bread alone and Chinese silk workers who tell of
gendered yearnings. Talk to
Brazilians remade
in Japan. Explore identity politics in Honduras. Have a long, leisurely chat instead of reducing someone to a
statistic. The chance for a good talk: That' cultural anthropology.
Many students and scholars of cultural anthropology make good use of their studies in careers as lawyers,
physicians, journalists, civil servants, and medical researchers. Many professionals in these and other fields
return to school to learn cultural anthropology, which can expand the scope of their professional work.
Anthropologists at UCSC maintain ties with numerous other campus units, including the Center for Cultural
Studies, History of Consciousness, Sociology, Psychology, Women's Studies, Environmental Studies, Latin
American and Latino/a Studies, the Chicano Latino Research Center, and the Center for Global, International,
and Regional Studies.
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