About Anthropology
Engaged. Critical. Transformative.
Anthropology at York is the study of human experience and social transformation. It explores how people live, relate, struggle, imagine and make sense of their worlds—across diverse settings and in the context of historical, cultural, political, technological and digital forces.
Our courses take you deep into urgent questions shaping today’s world:
- How and why do people resist inequality and injustice?
- What forms of care, solidarity and creativity sustain communities, both locally and globally?
- How do people think about and experience well-being and health care cross-culturally?
- What might alternative futures look like?
You’ll gain tools for analyzing the complexities of social life and develop a grounded understanding of topics like race and racism, health and the body, environmental justice, media and technology, archaeology and cultural heritage, religion, migration and political struggle.