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Thanks so much! I'm hoping to apply to about 12 schools!

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With a focus on moral relativism. I also love reflexivity. So far, this is the list of schools/people that I'm looking at (PhD programs in anthropology). For most of them, I've come across them by random chance. The people that I've been reading are all from Australia or the UK. Columbia -Paige West: long-term study of the meanings and values attributed to plants, animals, landscapes, and seascapes in PNG. UVA - Carrie Douglass: Cultural anthropology; symbolic anthropology; Spain; the Mediterranean; European anthropology; ritual cycles; demography; reproduction; gender; marriage and the family; medical anthropology; transnational kinship; nationalism and ethnicity; art in small-scale cultures; animals (Good to Think). Toronto - Hilary Cunningham: Nature and culture; anthropology of animals; animal geographies; animal histories; urban nature; wilderness; theories of nature. Naisargi Dave: Activism, affect, sexuality and gender, ethics, social emergences, queer anthropology, intimacy, animal-human relationships, postcolonial cities Washington - Maria Elena Garcia Adjunct: Animal studies, Latin America Holly Barker: ethics and applied The New School - Hugh Raffles: histories of human/nonhuman relations in Amazonia, East Asia, North America, Western Europe. UCSB Jeffrey Hoelle: Sociocultural Anthropology (ecological and economic anthropology, cattle raising and cowboy cultures; Latin America, Brazilian Amazon) McGill - Eduardo Kohn - Anthropology of life, semiotics, human-animal relations, "nature" and ecological and environmental anthropology, self and personhood, Quichua, Amazonia, Ecuador Apparently US students can't get funding outside of the US? Someone told me that. Any suggestions? Further people/programs? I would check the AAA book that costs a fortune but I'm abroad.

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How should I value it in comparison to what I've done in and outside of the classroom? I've sure it varies from program to program...

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^ I tried searching for the article in my school's WorldCat and it didn't come up. Hm....

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Oops it's Toronto not Toledo!

Hi all! I posted a similar post on here a while ago, and now I'm pretty certain that I want to move away from food and study multi-species ethnography. My current research proposal is about studying culturally-situated human-animal relationships in Costa Rica, which may include framework in intersubjectivity, intrinsic and extrinsic value, and anthropocentrism. Some programs that were suggested to me by a former undergraduate student at my institution were: Arizona British Columbia Santa Cruz Toledo Washington I've seen that one professor at Virginia deals with animals in a social way and one at Columbia does as well. In my experience it's more common to find faculty who study animals in the bioarch sense. My GPA is pretty good (anthro and Spanish double major) and I have not taken the GRE yet. I'm not expecting to do above average, though, so some departments that don't really care about the GRE would be ideal. Funding is important - if I don't get funding, then I can't go. I will be applying for both Masters and PhD programs. I will be applying in the fall of 2015 and graduating in the spring of 2016. I do have research experience.

^ something like that would be fantastic! I would like to get more into theoretical philosophy as well.

Hm....vegetarian diets and pets/livestock. Ethical focus, combining the two.

^ Yes, I'm thinking from a purely grad school admissions perspective. To be blatantly honest, I'd only want to go to the UK because I've always wanted to go there. Just for fun. That's not a legit reason to go! A professor of mine said that I could always apply to British universities for grad school (though I have no idea how/if those are funded). Also, Costa Rica is much cheaper than the UK and I'm on a limited budget.

The 1st option would be to study abroad in Costa Rica on a field-based program. We would design our own research projects on any topic. I am also a Spanish major. The 2nd option would be to study at a British university and take courses. I don't know any specifics, but the school I attend now is very small and I've heard that the courses at most other schools have many students in them. I think that we are limited in what courses we can take as international students.

I'm just wondering what you guys think would look "better" on a graduate school application: studying abroad at a prestigious British university and taking classes there (ex. University of St. Andrews, Glasgow) or studying in a country where a foreign language is used and field work opportunities are built into the program.

I also took this practice test without studying ANY math, but I studied a bit of verbal.

Really? Dang. I'm probably stressing too much/putting too much emphasis on them!

I took a practice GRE test last week and I scored poorly (150V and 141Q). I had leftover time for most sections. Are these scores good enough to get into any "good" graduate schools? Of course it will depend on my application as a whole.....but would they exclude me from schools? I would like to take the GRE in January.

I talked with a 2013 alumnus of my undergraduate institution about some schools that I could apply to next fall. I have interests in ethics, food studies, animal studies, and human-animal relations (under the umbrella of cultural anthropology.) He gave me a list of 5 schools that I might look into, and also some professors there who share my interests: University of Washington, Seattle (18% admitted) University of Arizona (12% admitted) UC Santa Cruz (18% admitted) University of Toledo N/A University of British Columbia (17% admitted) With these acceptance rates, are they reach schools? Match schools? I realize that this depends on the applicant.

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Now I have not taken the GRE yet, but I plan to take it either in December or January before I study abroad, that way I'll have plenty of time to retake it when I return. I will be taking an online prep course beforehand. I'm afraid that my GRE scores may be the weakest point of my application. I know from past experiences that my standardized test scores have always been, well, not great. My GPA is decent and I have research experience/and I am currently conducting research. What scores should I be looking at if I want to enter a top PhD program for cultural anthropology? At what percentiles?

^ Thanks! I guess I just need to find a subfield then

^thanks. This gives me hope!