Tulane University

Course Details

Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology(Cultural Anthropology)

Course Description

Cultural anthropology (also known as sociocultural anthropology) is the branch of the discipline concerned with documenting the wide range of institutions, beliefs, practices, and technologies of contemporary human populations around the world. It is equally concerned with developing generalizations based on comparative study. The main technique of this subdiscipline is ethnographic research, the first-hand documentation of a people and their situation by a trained investigator. Another technique is ethnohistory, which employs documentary sources of information.

Course Duration

NumberDuration
4year

Career outcomes

Cultural anthropology related fields




Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology(Cultural Anthropology) Tulane University