Anthropology means, very broadly, ‘the study of humanity’. Anthropologists undertake the detailed study of many individual societies and use information about each society to compare and analyse human universals like kinship, marriage, death and most of the things that humans do. At Waikato we teach sociocultural anthropology, which looks at a whole range of societies from tribal groups to Western society and the ways in which people organise and understand themselves. The Pacific area is central to much of our teaching and research.

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