The human social world--past and present--consists of a myriad of distinct racial, ethnic, religious, and cultural groupings with profoundly different ways of life and understandings of the world. Anthropology takes this human diversity as its point of departure, and seeks to understand its basis.

The program at Colby investigates a wide range of social forms, from the egalitarian foragers of the Kalahari Desert to the class-stratified states of the industrialized world... <more>

New Faculty.

Three anthropologists are joining Colby in Fall 2007 and Fall 2008