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roles of staffs and women in Urhobo culture it should be remembered that Nigeria is one of Africa’s most developed nations. It is unreasonable for anyone to believe that all members of Africa’s most populous nation practice, maintain, or ascribe to all the traditional beliefs of past Nigerian cultures. Furthermore, no one society in Niger Delta region is completely like another. However, we can still learn about one culture by looking at its neighbors. Because limited studies have been done on the

throughout much of south-central Democratic Republic of the Congo. Luba applies to a variety of peoples who are of different origins but speak closely related language and share many similar cultural traits. The Luba occupy savanna and forest regions and practice hunting, gathering, farming, and herding. They practice circumcision, women’s initiation, have associations with hunting, magic, and medicine. They are also renowned wood-carvers. The religion of the Luba people share common cosmology and basic

department.2012-2013 Visiting ScholarsBaoping Jin Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China Jin taught a summer course in Chinese painting, covering the materials, techniques, and history of Chinese painting. Lan Pang Xi’an University of Technology, Xi’an, China Lan researched linguistics and cross-cultural communication with the Department of Languages and Literatures. Linfei Zhu Xidian University, Xi’an, China Linfei served as a Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant (FLTA) for the Chinese Studies

. (4) ANTH 368 : Edible Landscapes: The Foraging Spectrum - ES, GE The course examines foragers in Africa, North America, and Australia. Using classic ethnographic literature, it provides a cultural ecological perspective of foraging societies in a variety of environments. It also examines how foraging studies inform archaeological research and the challenges that these peoples now face in a rapidly changing world. (4) ANTH 370 : The Archaeology of Ancient Empires - ES, GE The origins of

Sarah Caitlin Slinker ’13(served in Togo from 2014 – 2015) At PLU, Sarah majored in Global Studies (responses to violence concentration) and French and minored in Anthropology and Political Science. She lived in Hong International Hall for two and a half years and was an RA for one semester in “La Maison Française” (the French Wing). She joined the US Peace Corps predominately because of her love of travel, languages, culture, and cultural exchange; she also wanted to learn more about the