From the Archives: Cultural Anthropology is a social science that explores how people understand – and act in – the world. But what, exactly, is it that Cultural Anthropologists do? How do they approach their research? In this short film, three members of MIT’s Anthropology Department, Stefan Helmreich, Erica Caple James, and Heather Paxson, talk about their current work (as of March 2008) and the process of doing fieldwork.
