Anthropology is the study of the human experience, from our earliest ancestors to contemporary digital society. You will learn to see humankind as complex social and biological beings with the capacity for language and culture. Drawing on insights from archaeology, and cultural, linguistic, and biological anthropology, you will explore the extraordinary variability in human adaptation, organization and belief, and how the common circumstances we face unite us.

Anthropology at Trent

The Department of Anthropology consists of 15 full-time faculties divided into three major research areas: Archaeology and Bio archaeology (11), Sociocultural Anthropology (3), and Linguistic Anthropology (1). Included among the faculty is a Canada Research Chair in Environmental Archaeology (Paul Szpak).

We specialize in:

Human/ environment relationships:

• Long-term archaeological perspectives on the relationship of human settlement and mobility with resource use, agricultural ecosystems, urbanism, food, and health.
• Cross-cultural studies of the constitution, use, and meanings of landscape, space, and place

Food, diet, and human health:

• Long-term, cross-cultural perspectives on diet and human health
• Food and drink studies

Materiality & the world of things:

• New Materialism or semiotic interrogations of the meaning potentials of materiality
• The production and consumption of material culture, including behavioral chains, use wear, taphonomy, and technological analyses.

POPULAR COURSES

• Plagues and Peoples
• Freaks and Geeks: The Anthropology of Subcultures and Cyber-Cultures
• Culture and Food
• The Archaeology of Climate Change
• Environmental Archaeology
• Mortuary Archaeology
• The Anthropology of Religion

CAREER PATHS

• Archaeologist
• Public Service
• Cultural and Heritage Consultant
• Environmental Impact Assessor
• Ethnographer
• Forensic Anthropologist
• Immigration and Human Rights
• Public Health
• Medical Anthropologist
• Museum Curator