Tag Archives: Anthropology

Disciplines

Posted on April 28, 1996 by Steve Weiss

To some critics in the mid-1990s, the humanities and social sciences were in eclipse in American education. Three prominent commentators–historian and former Williams College president Francis Oakley, anthropologist Nancy Scheper-Hughes [at 12:30] of the University of California at Berkeley, and classicist W. Robert Connor … Continue reading →

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Afro-American Culture, Literature, and Social Order, Part 5 of 6

Posted on October 9, 1983 by Steve Weiss

Jerome Handler discusses his research into slave life on sugar plantations in Barbados from the early seventeenth through the early nineteenth century. He recounts how his research focus shifted from contemporary social anthropology to a historical study of the lives … Continue reading →

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