The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/anthropology/)
In a ceremony on Tuesday, Cornell returned ancestral remains and sacred items to the Oneida Indian Nation that had been in possession of the University for six decades.
Anthropologist and human geographer Will Smith will present his research on climate change this Thursday as part of the Ronald and Janette Gatty Lecture Series.
The “Mighty Mekong” River, which winds through Southeast Asia, is slowly ceding its might in “one of the most over-engineered places on earth,” argues Brian Eyler, who studies this phenomenon, in his latest book.
The committee said that Prof. Annelise Riles, the Jack G. Clarke ’52 Professor of Far East Legal Studies, received the Anneliese Maier Award for lifetime achievement for “outstanding achievements in academic research.”