Anthropology
About Our Department
The Department of Anthropology at UNB–Fredericton is located in Annex C, which contains labs, seminar rooms, a student office, faculty and departmental offices and a lounge. The proximity of these facilities, and small class sizes, allow close communication and dialogue among undergraduates, graduate students and faculty in a pleasant, comfortable setting.
The department provides education in three subfields of the discipline of anthropology—socio-cultural anthropology, biological anthropology and anthropological archaeology—and offers Bachelor of Arts Major and Honours degrees and a Master of Arts degree. We currently have 5.5 full-time faculty members (one member is cross-appointed with the Faculty of Education) and several part-time lecturers and research associates, who have conducted research in the Maritime Provinces, other parts of Canada, Latin America, South Asia, the Philippines, Oceania, South Africa and Europe. We are proud to continue a tradition of anthropological research at UNB that extends back to the nineteenth century.
The Department of Anthropology began in 1966 as part of a joint Sociology/Anthropology Department created in that year. Initially, there were two anthropologists and four sociologists in the department. By 1973, there were three full-time anthropologists, and a case was made for establishing a separate Department of Anthropology, which took place in 1974. In 1979, Anthropology moved to Annex C, where it has been ever since, gradually taking over the entire building by the early 1990.
The Harriet Irving Library has a good collection of anthropological books and journals, the Human Relations Area Files, online CD-ROMs and Current Contents. Interlibrary loans are available quickly through an exchange agreement with other universities. The UNB Archives and the New Brunswick Provincial Archives (on campus) possess material related to New Brunswick history, ethnography, archaeology and Eastern Algonkian cultures.
International Development Studies is also housed within the department.
