CUSAG: The Cultural Systems Analysis Group

Description of Jamaica students pictured above. Find out more information.

Each summer, Dr. Whitehead, the Director of CuSAG, directs an
ethnographic field school in Jamaica that could be of value to students
in Anthropology and the other social sciences, public health, social work, nursing, and other practice disciplines. Find out more about the Jamaica Field School (PDF).

CuSAG:

is an applied research and technical assistance unit in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Maryland College Park (UMCP);

was initiated in 1989, with a mission of offering expertise in cultural and community analysis using knowledge and skills grounded in anthropology, community health, and ethnographic research methods;

has a philosophical orientation towards facilitating social change through the design, implementation, and evaluation of community-based initiatives; and

provides anthropologically based knowledge and skills to people and groups involved in community-based initiatives at the local, state, regional, national, and international levels.

See Current CuSAG Activities here.

CuSAG The Cultural Systems Analysis Group
Department of Anthropology | University of Maryland
0123 Woods Hall | College Park, MD 20742 USA
tel. 301-405-1419 | www.cusag.umd.edu

Last updated 05/09/2009