Cultural Anthropology
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- Perspectives - An Open Invitation to Cultural Anthropology 1e (Brown, McIlwraith and González)
- The first peer-reviewed open access textbook for cultural anthropology courses. Produced by the Society for Anthropology in Community Colleges and available free of charge for use in any setting.
- Perspectives - An Open Invitation to Cultural Anthropology 2e (Brown, McIlwraith, and González)
- This novel textbook on the essential topics in cultural anthropology is an edited volume with each chapter written by a different author that has written from their experiences working as an anthropologist and that personal touch makes for an accessible introduction to cultural anthropology. Our approach to cultural anthropology is holistic. We see the interconnectedness of cultural practices and we emphasize the comparison of cultures and the ways of life of different peoples.
- Cultural Anthropology (Evans)
- Physical anthropology is concerned with the biological and behavioral aspects of human beings, their related non-human primates and their extinct hominin ancestors. It is a subfield of anthropology that provides a biological perspective to the systematic study of human beings.
- The Art of Being Human (Wesch)
- Anthropology is the study of all humans in all times in all places. But it is so much more than that. “Anthropology requires strength, valor, and courage,” Nancy Scheper-Hughes noted. “Pierre Bourdieu called anthropology a combat sport, an extreme sport as well as a tough and rigorous discipline. … It teaches students not to be afraid of getting one’s hands dirty, to get down in the dirt, and to commit yourself, body and mind. Susan Sontag called anthropology a “heroic” profession.”
- Speaking of Culture (Weil)
- This text is a collection of instructor-authored background readings intended to accompany other activities, discussions, experiences, projects, and readings for courses in Cross-Cultural Perspectives. Its main purpose is to define culture and other concepts often associated with it.
- Cultural Anthropology (Wikibook)
- Anthropology is the holistic and scientific study of humanity. Cultural Anthropology focuses on contemporary human cultures, their beliefs, myths, values, practices, technologies, economies and other domains of social and cognitive organization. The detailed descriptions of culture, or ethnography, are based upon a methodology of primary data collection through participant observation with living human populations.
- Beliefs: An Open Invitation to the Anthropology of Magic, Witchcraft, and Religion (Zunner-Keating, Avetyan, and Shepard)
- This book was the combined efforts of the authors, contributors and editors who have been teaching these concepts to students for a number of years.
- Native Peoples of North America (Stebbins)
- This text is intended to be an introductory text about the Native peoples of North America (primarily the United States and Canada) presented from an anthropological perspective. As such, the text is organized around anthropological concepts such as language, kinship, marriage and family life, political and economic organization, food getting, spiritual and religious practices, and the arts. Prehistoric, historic and contemporary information is presented.
- Shared Voices - An Introduction to Cultural Anthropology (Brellas and Martinez)
- Shared Voices is a student-centered cultural anthropology mini textbook built with an equity lens. This text aims to be accessible, interesting, accurate, and centered on marginalized voices. This text is a starting point for any introductory anthropology course recognizing that cultural change is constant and the familiar is cousin to the weird and unusual.
Thumbnail: An Adivasi woman from the Kutia Kondh tribal group in Odisha, India. (CC BY-SA 4.0; PICQ via Wikipedia).
