The Department of Anthropology at Harvard UniversitySocial Anthropology Graduate Program Overview. The field of social/cultural anthropology is changing rapidly in response to economic and political developments in the post-Cold War .

The James Smithson Medal and Levi-Strauss: A Gift Exchange .No social anthropologist, since the discipline began to be formalized a century ago, comes close to matching such a varied and universal retinue of recognition. An award from the Smithsonian, conferred a few months after he himself .