Research Projects
Research projects of faculty who participate in multiple streams are cross-listed under each stream.
Archaeology stream
Understanding cropping patterns and subsistance change in the Indus Valley
Faculty participants: Steven A. Weber
Several archaeology projects related to the past impact of humans on the environment
Faculty participants: Steven A. Weber
Cultural stream
Faculty and graduate students conducting research in Africa
Faculty participants: Edward H. Hagen Nicole Hess Bonnie Hewlett Barry Hewlett
This project explores the cultural and ecological contexts in which women other than mother nurse infants.
Faculty participants: Barry Hewlett
This study examines the intracultural and cross-cultural variability in cosleeping.
Faculty participants: Barry Hewlett
Ethnographic study of the culture of production in Bollywood films
Faculty participants: Clare Wilkinson-Weber
An international conference to be held at Washington State University Vancouver, July 25-28, 2012
Faculty participants: Clare Wilkinson-Weber
Research into a female dominated industry in North India
Faculty participants: Clare Wilkinson-Weber
Evolutionary stream
Faculty and graduate students conducting research in Africa
Faculty participants: Edward H. Hagen Nicole Hess Bonnie Hewlett Barry Hewlett
This project explores the cultural and ecological contexts in which women other than mother nurse infants.
Faculty participants: Barry Hewlett
In small, kin-based communities, are some children cared for better than others? Further, within families, do parents invest differently in different children, and, if so, why?
Faculty participants: Edward H. Hagen
This study examines the intracultural and cross-cultural variability in cosleeping.
Faculty participants: Barry Hewlett
Potenial evolved functions of depression, suicidality, and deliberate self-harm
Faculty participants: Edward H. Hagen
Music and dance as signals of coalition quality
Faculty participants: Edward H. Hagen
Female friendship and aggression
Faculty participants: Edward H. Hagen Nicole Hess
Many drugs of abuse are plant defensive chemicals. It is paradoxical that compounds which evolved to deter use are often addictive.
Faculty participants: Edward H. Hagen
Affiliated faculty
Bioaccumulation of environmental contaminants in breastmilk of Aka forager and Ngandu farmer women
Faculty participants: Bonnie Hewlett
Socio-ecology of cooperation and economic reasoning in a Dominican village
Faculty participants: Shane Macfarlan
This study examines how cultural practices that may have influenced the evolution of menopause.
Faculty participants:
Ethno-historical and archaeological research of the extinct Guyacura
Faculty participants: Shane Macfarlan
Health and Adolescents
Faculty participants: Bonnie Hewlett
Physical Attraction and Health
Faculty participants: Bonnie Hewlett
Project explores how male social networks impact labor exchange relationships
Faculty participants: Shane Macfarlan
Life histories of Aka forager and Ngandu farmer women
Faculty participants: Bonnie Hewlett
2010-2011 talks in anthropology
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