该部门的文化人类学家一致认为，研究和研究必须牢固地扎根于对当代社会著作以及人类学和社会学经典著作中的一般社会和文化理论的严格训练。该学院还认为，基本的人种志仍然是所有文化人类学赖以生存的基石，并且关注人类学知识在写作和电影中的表现。通过比较的观点和对小规模环境的了解，人们致力于理解复杂的社会。最近在东非和西非，北美洲和南美洲（包括在美洲原住民中进行的研究），澳大利亚，加勒比海，中国，东欧和西欧，美拉尼西亚，中东，波利尼西亚，南亚进行了教师和学生的现场研究。 ，以及前苏联。<br>我们理解为包括语言人类学在
Cultural anthropologists in the department share a belief that study and research must be firmly grounded in rigorous training in general social and cultural theory, both in contemporary writings and in the classics of anthropology and sociology. The faculty also believes that basic ethnography remains the cornerstone on which all cultural anthropology rests and are concerned with the representation of anthropological knowledge in writing and film. There is a commitment to an understanding of complex societies that is informed by a comparative perspective and knowledge of smaller-scale settings. Recent field research by faculty and students has been conducted in East and West Africa, North and South America (including research among Native Americans), Australia, the Caribbean, China, Eastern and Western Europe, Melanesia, the Middle East, Polynesia, South Asia, and the former Soviet Union. Faculty interests converge around gender relations, emotion, religion and belief systems, expressive culture and performance, the anthropology of history, colonialism and post-colonial nationalism, the cultural context of legal and political institutions, transnational processes, and urban life. Much faculty research focuses on the mediation of identities though popular and public cultural forms - such as art, television, indigenous media, urban space, regional cultures, and ideologies of language use - in a variety of changing social contexts.Sociocultural anthropology, which we understand to include linguistic anthropology, is concerned with the problem of difference and similarity within and between human populations. The discipline arose concomitantly with the expansion of European colonial empires, and its practices and theories have been questioned and reformulated along with processes of decolonization. Such issues have re-emerged as transnational processes have challenged the centrality of the nation-state to theorizations about culture and power. New challenges have emerged as public debates about multiculturalism, and the increasing use of the culture concept outside of the academy and among peoples studied by anthropology. These are not business-as-usual times in the academy, in anthropology, or in the world, if ever there were such times.