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Richard Price's ethnographic account of a "trip down the rabbit hole" with a Saramaka curer has won the Gordon K. and Sybil Lewis Memorial Award for Caribbean Scholarship.

If you missed the William & Mary faculty's observance of Charles Darwin's 200th birthday, you can view Darwin Across the Disciplines on Channel 48. The symposium explores Darwin's influence across the spectrum of intellectual life.

Anthropologist Barbara King discusses the emotional life of apes at the nation’s largest gathering of scientists.

Digging up the past isn't a favored pastime for most. But this summer a number of William and Mary undergraduates did just that, and they relished it.

Professor Michael Blakey's work as lead scientist at the New York African Burial Ground led to the designation of the site as a national monument. A memorial at the site was dedicated Oct. 5.

Like most undergraduates, Kim Peck entered William and Mary uncertain of what she would major in. That fall, though, she took Intro to Cultural Anthropology, taught by professors Richard and Sally Price, and soon enough she was an Anthropology major.

Last year, senior Catherine Bailey used research support in part from the Nathan Altschuler scholarship, provided by the department, to conduct research In New Mexico. Here is her account of her research.

We are pleased to highlight the skilled work of our very own Buck Woodard on the set of Terrence Malik's movie The New World (2005).

Once every month or two Barbara J. King boards a train to see a Washington, D.C., family she has been visiting for years. Mandara, Kuja and their offspring greet her with gestures and grunts each time she enters their house.

It was the best of times. Wahunsenacawh, also known as Chief Powhatan, had settled into a new capital town on a bay off what is now the York River.