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The Four Fields

The Department of Anthropology at Western Michigan University is committed to the traditional "four fields" approach represented historically in American Anthropology as well as to 21st century concerns about the practice of anthropology in the age of globalization. Our program includes classes in cultural anthropology, archaeology, linguistics and biological anthropology and our department takes very seriously the mission of anthropology to study humans in all their dimensions. Our Faculty and students are committed to the practice of anthropology as a critical social science that both appreciates human diversity and challenges global inequities.