On April 28, 2018, Professor Brewster and the Anthropology Club joined Jacqueline Figueroa Moran (social media director) and her family for dinner. We enjoyed pupusas, topped with curtido and salsa made by Roxana (Jacqueline’s mom). We also had jocotes, elotitos, Read More …
Category: Anthropology
Anthropology Club experiences Oaxacan food and culture
Every semester, the Anthropology Club organizes cultural dinners to allow our students to have a more immersive experience of the rich food culture we have in Los Angeles. Last week, we had Bricia Lopez come speak to our Club. She Read More …
Anthro Club attend cellular and molecular biology symposium at UCSD
SMC Anthro Club at Salk Institute (photo by Jose Avalos).
Students from the SMC Anthropology Club regularly attend the CARTA symposia at the Salk Institute in UCSD. Students were accompanied by professors Ciarán Brewster and Jeanelle Uy. CARTA organizes free public symposia addressing particular aspects of human origins and uniqueness. Read More …
Anthropology Club trip to symposium and San Diego Zoo
Anthropology Club students post-symposium at UCSD (photo by C. Melendez).
This past weekend, the SMC Anthropology Club under the supervision of professors Brewster and Melendez traveled to San Diego. On the Friday, we attended the CARTA symposium at UCSD entitled “Extraordinary Variations of the Human Mind: Lessons for Anthropogeny”. Read More …
Attack of the bone clones!
There’s a place in the northwestern portion of the San Fernando Valley that has more skeletons than living people. That place is not the Oakwood Memorial Cemetery but rather a little known business called Bone Clones. Located in Canoga Park, Read More …
Students caught knapping!
The behaviors of our distant ancestors don’t preserve in the archaeological record but the products of these behaviors sometimes do. Much of what we can say about early human behavior is based on the material artifacts they left behind, particularly Read More …
Monkey your way around to academic success!
Imagine for the next few months being woken up at 3 am every morning, coaxing your body to lumber in the darkness through dense forest populated with hundreds of species of stinging insects, as the rising humidity suffocates your every Read More …
Anthropology Club cultural dinner
One of the highlights of the semester for the SMC Anthropology Club are the cultural dinners. A visit to an Ethiopian restaurant in the spring proved to be a massive hit. Last night, members of the Club met up for Read More …
Astronomy Club’s trip to Joshua Tree
On the weekend of November 4 – 6th, the Astronomy Club did its semester observing run at Joshua Tree under the supervision of Prof. Gary Fouts. The Anthropology Club also attended under the supervision of Prof. Ciarán Brewster. During the Read More …
Anthropology Club trip to San Diego
Last weekend our Anthropology Club took a trip to UC San Diego to attend the CARTA symposium on Implications of Anthropogeny for Medicine and Health. The students were accompanied by Professors Brewster and Fouts. The topics ranged from heart health in hunter-gatherers Read More …