Department Chair: Jacqueline Urla
The Department of Anthropology was established in 1969. At the University of Massachusetts Amherst, the Anthropology Department is a four-field program, each concerned with one of the main branches of Anthropology: Archaeology, Biological Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, and Linguistic Anthropology.
Browse the Anthropology Collections:
Anthropology Department Archaeological Projects
Anthropology Department Dissertations Collection
Anthropology Department Faculty Publication Series
Anthropology Department Faculty Selected Works pages
Anthropology Department Field Program in European Studies
- Selected Publications of EFS Faculty, Students, and Alumni
- Dissertations and Theses based on EFS-sponsored field research
- Final Reports of EFS student participants
Anthropology Department Masters Theses Collection
Anthropology Department Research Reports series
- Research Report 12: Winward Road: Contributions to the Anthropology of St. Vincent
- Research Report 06: A Symposium on East European Ethnography
- Research Report 19: Proceedings of the Conference on Northeastern Archaeology
- Research Report 20: Biocultural Adaptation Comprehensive Approaches to Skeletal Analysis
- Research Report 22: Three Contributions to the Study of Socialist Czechoslovakia
- Research Report 24: Economy, Society and Culture in Contemporary Romania
- Research Report 25: An Analysis of the Early Cultural Sequence in the Nepena Valley, Peru
- Research Report 27: Absent Others: Perspectives on Marginality in Barcelona Schools
- Research Report 30: Aztec Money : An Inquiry into Substance, Sources and Heuristic Value
- Research Report 31: The organization of diversity : essays on a changing Europe : a collection in honor of John W. Cole
- Research Report 29: The Goat Island Rockshelter : new light from old legacies
- Research Report 21: How The People Live: Life in the Passive Regious
- Research Report 28: Ela’ qua : essays in honor of Richard B. Woodbury
- Research Report 18: Ecological Anthropology of the Middle Connecticut River Valley
- Research Report 04: A Contribution to the Study of Value Orientations Among the Czechs and Slovaks
- Research Report 07: The Genetic Structure of an Historical Population: a Study of Marriage and Fertility in Old Deerfield, Massachusetts
- Research Report 08: Bibliography of Human Paleopathology
- Research Report 10: Estate Inheritance in the Italian Alps
- Research Report 13: Archaeological Investigations in the Nepena Valley, Peru
- Research Report 14: Bibliography of Human and Non-human, Non-Metric Variation
- Research Report 16: Ritual and Social Structure in a Macedonian Village
- Research Report 17: Selected papers on a Serbian Village: Social Structure as Reflected by History, Demography and Oral Tradition
- Research Report 09: The Limits of Integration: Ethnicity and Nationalism in Modern Europe
- Research Report 05: NASCA Gravelots in the Uhle Collection from the Ica Valley, Peru
- Research Report 02: An Archaeological Survey of the Nepeña Valley, Peru
- Research Report 01: Reports on Achievement Motivation
- Research Report 15: The spirits and their cousins: Some aspects of belief, ritual, and social organization in a rural Hausa village in Niger
- Research Report 03: Bibliography of English Language Sources on Yugoslavia