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ARCHAEOLOGY: Five archaeologists teach in the department. Research areas include paleoethnobotany (Wagner) and eastern North America prehistoric and contact-era archaeology (Wagner, Cobb), historical archaeology of the African Diaspora (Kelly: Africa, Caribbean; Weik: Caribbean, US), and African prehistoric archaeology and ethnoarchaeology (Casey). The South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology (SCIAA) also has several archaeologists working on prehistoric (King, Goodyear) and historic archaeology (DePratter, South) of the Southeast and a very large collection of materials from the state.

BIOLOGICAL/BIOCULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY: Two biocultural anthropologists teach in the department (Gibson, Leatherman). The focus of this subfield is to combine methods and theories used in biological and cultural anthropology to contribute to the study of health disparities and nutrition.

CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY: Seven cultural anthropologists (Gibson, biocultural; Huq, cultural; Kingsolver, cultural; Moskowitz, cultural; Reynolds, cultural/linguistic; D. Simmons, cultural; K. Simmons, cultural) and a political economist (Barker) teach in the department. Research areas in cultural anthropology include activist anthropology, globalization and development, identity construction, social justice, anthropology of childhood, gender, class, racialization, social and political movements, migration, and popular cultures. Members of the faculty in other sub-fields study the use of plants, food processing and health and nutrition among present-day groups (Casey, Wagner, and Leatherman).

LINGUISTIC ANTHROPOLOGY: One linguistic anthropologist teaches in the department (Reynolds) and conducts research on language ideology, language socialization, and social reproduction and among indigenous Mayas in Guatemala and Latin American immigrants in the United States. Linguistics Anthropology is also one of the subfield areas of concentration within the Linguistics Program. For more information about the graduate program in Linguistics click on the following link. http://www.cas.sc.edu/ling/

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