Research Groups and Centers (Subscribe)
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School for Advanced Research popular
A center for advanced study in anthropology, the humanities and Native American Art.
University of Vienna: Anthropology
http://evolution.anthro.univie.ac.at/institutes/urbanethology/projects/
Information on the human behavior research projects being undertaken.
University of Kent: Biological Anthropology Research Group
http://www.kent.ac.uk/sac/bioanth/bioanth_research.html
Provides information on the members of the group and their individual research interests.
University of Edinburgh: Social Anthropology
http://www.san.ed.ac.uk/research/
Research is concentrated on the anthropology of health and illness, and the "Bones Collective", a study of the significance of human bones in different cultures.
The Bauu Institute and Press
Small social science research institute and press. Undertakes research and publishes books in the environmental, psychological, and social sciences.
Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History: Anthropology
Research topics include human-environmental interactions, population migration, origins of domestication, linguistics and forensic anthropology.
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity
http://www.mmg.mpg.de/english/contemporaryIssues/e_news/
The Institute is dedicated to the multi-disciplinary study of diversity in historical and contemporary societies. Provides information on the Institute, research, staff, publications and events.
Institute of Genetic Anthropology
http://www.geneticanthropology.org/
Research is aimed at finding solutions to the problems faced by developing and industrialized countries such as disease, pollution, deforestation, global warming, malnutrition, criminality, war and poverty.
Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology
At the University of Oxford. Provides information on research and the MSc and DPhil programs.
Institute for Applied Political Anthropology
http://www.political-anthropology.org/
Interdisciplinary research group in Freiburg, Germany, providing political institutions with anthropological micro-analyses and innovative perspectives on current social challenges.
Durham University: Medical Anthropology Research Group
http://www.dur.ac.uk/anthropology/research/marg/
Interdisciplinary research group focusing on the anthropology of health.
Durham University: Evolutionary Anthropology Research Group
http://www.dur.ac.uk/anthropology/research/earg/
Research spans the origins and prehistoric dispersals of human populations, the comparative analysis of primate social structures, physical traits and behaviours, the evolution of the brain and cognitive faculties, and the transmission of culture through social learning.
Anthropology and Conservation at Kent: Ethnobiology
http://www.kent.ac.uk/sac/ethnobiol/researchgroup.html
Provides details of the group and their research interests.
AIDS and Anthropology Research Group
http://puffin.creighton.edu/aarg/
A network of scholars interested in anthropological research on HIV infection and AIDS. The mission of group is to support anthropological research in the fight against HIV and AIDS.