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ANTH101: Free textbook and hub for teaching cultural anthropology

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ANTH101: Free textbook and hub for teaching cultural anthropology

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* a free alternative to expensive Introduction to Cultural Anthropology textbooks

* includes a full textbook and several original videos

* includes 10 "challenges" (assignments)

* a hub of original and found resources for teaching and learning anthropology

* a “connected course” of many faculty around the world sharing instructional materials

* an open course freely available to anyone online

* an emerging producer of original anthropological videos and other digital content

Subject:: Anthropology
Material Type:: Textbook
Author:: Michael Wesch; Ryan Klataske; Tom Woodward
Date Added:: 08/16/2018

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African Ethnography Collection

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This online database of our African Ethnographic collection includes artifacts that were found throughout the continent of Africa, from The Gambia to Madagascar, from Algeria to South Africa. The database allows you to see all artifacts for a country by clicking on a map or list of country names, search by object type, culture, and keyword find out what items are currently on display, and learn about recently acquired artifacts. There are two ways to search the collection as a picture-only gallery, or as a catalog that describes each artifact's provenance (country, locale, culture), materials, dimensions, and year of acquisition.

Subject:: Anthropology; Ethnic Studies
Material Type:: Diagram/Illustration
Provider:: American Museum of Natural History
Provider Set:: American Museum of Natural History
Date Added:: 10/15/2014

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Anthropology Mini Lectures: A collective resource for online teaching in the time of COVID19

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Anthropology Mini Lectures: A collective resource for online teaching in the time of COVID19

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This is a collection of mini lectures created by anthropologists and those in conversation with anthropology as supplimental material to assist college and university instructors who were made to shift their courses online because of COVID19.For more information, see here.To contribute, please create an OER author account and send your name and OER registered email to AnthropologyTeaching@gmail.com.

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Antiquities of Wisconsin as Surveyed and Described by I. A. LAPHAM (1885)

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The Antiquities of Wisconsin, Increase A. Lapham's most important published work, includes 92 pages of text, illustrated with 61 wood engravings, and 55 lithographed plates and was the result of his research into the Indian effigy mounds found on Wisconsin's Landscape.

Subject:: Arts and Humanities; Anthropology
Material Type:: Diagram/Illustration; Primary Source; Reading
Provider:: University of Wisconsin
Provider Set:: University of Wisconsin Digital Collections
Date Added:: 07/05/2013

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Asian Ethnography Collection

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This online database of our Asian Ethnographic collection includes artifacts that were found throughout the continent of Asia, from Russia to Indonesia, from Turkey to Japan. The database allows you to see all artifacts for a country by clicking on a map or list of country names, search by object type, culture, and keyword, find out what items are currently on display and learn about recently acquired artifacts. There are two ways to search the collection as a picture-only gallery, or as a catalog that describes each artifact's provenance (country, locale, culture), materials, dimensions, and year of acquisition.

Subject:: Anthropology; Ethnic Studies
Material Type:: Diagram/Illustration
Provider:: American Museum of Natural History
Provider Set:: American Museum of Natural History
Date Added:: 10/15/2014

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Becoming Human: How Evolution Made Us

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Becoming Human is a fast-paced, irreverent introduction to evolutionary theory, especially human origins. The book is based on the Open2Study MOOC, 'Becoming Human,' created by Dr. Greg Downey and Open Universities Australia. The book discusses traces of evolution in our bodies, basic evolutionary theory from Darwin to the genomic revolution, sexual selection and reproduction, and how human brain development affects our evolution, including into the future. Copiously illustrated, with some interactive diagrams, videos of Dr. Downey presenting the material are also available through Open2Study.

Subject:: Anthropology
Material Type:: Textbook
Provider:: Enculture Press
Author:: Greg Downey
Date Added:: 03/19/2015

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Becoming Human: Interactive Documentary

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Becoming Human is an interactive documentary experience that tells the story of human origins. Multimedia, research and scholarship are presented to promote greater understanding of the course of human evolution. This site includes classroom materials, subject-designed exercises, games and activities to help make connections between the concepts that are presented and student learning. PDF versions of the resources may be downloaded from the site.

Subject:: Arts and Humanities; Anthropology
Material Type:: Activity/Lab; Lecture; Lesson Plan
Provider:: Institute of Human Origins
Provider Set:: Becoming Human
Author:: Individual Authors
Date Added:: 08/20/2011

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Becoming a Cultural Researcher

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Students learn about material culture in this Moveable Museum lesson plan by taking a firsthand look at how culture influences the kinds of things we do. The 12-page PDF guide has educator materials including background information, teacher strategies, assessment guidelines, and detailed notes about the curriculum standards addressed. The Becoming a Cultural Researcher activity worksheet has a series of questions that prompts students to reflect on the material culture of daily activities, customs, or ceremonies. There is a kid-friendly glossary of related terms.

Subject:: Anthropology; Ethnic Studies
Material Type:: Lesson Plan; Student Guide
Provider:: American Museum of Natural History
Provider Set:: American Museum of Natural History
Date Added:: 10/15/2014

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Conversations with History: Studying the Human Condition, Habits of a Militant Anthropologist with Nancy Scheper-Hughes

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Nancy Scheper-Hughes, a noted Anthropology Professor at UC Berkeley and author of numerous award-winning works joins UC Berkeley's Harry Kreisler. (59 min)

Subject:: Arts and Humanities; Anthropology
Material Type:: Lecture
Provider:: U.C. Berkeley; UCTV Teacher's Pet
Date Added:: 01/29/2006

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Cookie Subduction

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This is a quick activity that shows how large amounts of rock and sediment are added to the edge of continents during subduction. You may ask, how can such a huge phenomenon be demonstrated quickly and cheaply? The answer is simple: with a cookie!

Subject:: Geology
Material Type:: Activity/Lab
Provider:: Exploratorium
Author:: Exploratorium; The Exploratorium
Date Added:: 11/07/2012

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Cosmology and Astronomy: Chronometric Revolution

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Cosmology and Astronomy: Chronometric Revolution

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This 10-minute video lesson discusses chronometry and the relatively recent changes in our ability as a species to shine light on our deep past. [Cosmology and Astronomy playlist: Lesson 81 of 85]

Subject:: Astronomy; Anthropology
Material Type:: Lecture
Provider:: Khan Academy
Provider Set:: Khan Academy
Author:: Khan, Salman
Date Added:: 02/20/2011

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Cosmology and Astronomy: Collective Learning

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Cosmology and Astronomy: Collective Learning

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This 13-minute video lesson discusses collective learning and how symbolic language drives collective learning and how this is one of the truly differentiating aspects of human beings relative to the rest of the animal kingdom. [Cosmology and Astronomy playlist: Lesson 82 of 85]

Subject:: Anthropology
Material Type:: Lecture
Provider:: Khan Academy
Provider Set:: Khan Academy
Author:: Khan, Salman
Date Added:: 02/20/2011

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Cosmology and Astronomy: Development of Agriculture and Writing

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Cosmology and Astronomy: Development of Agriculture and Writing

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This 13-minute video looks at the development of agriculture and writing in the Paleolithic and Neolithic eras of the Stone Age. [Cosmology and Astronomy playlist: Lesson 67 of 85]

Subject:: Astronomy
Material Type:: Lecture
Provider:: Khan Academy
Provider Set:: Khan Academy
Author:: Khan, Salman
Date Added:: 02/20/2011

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Cosmology and Astronomy: Energy Inputs for Tilling a Hectare of Land

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Cosmology and Astronomy: Energy Inputs for Tilling a Hectare of Land

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This 14-minute video lesson considers energy consumption required for tilling land. [Cosmology and Astronomy playlist: Lesson 84 of 85]

Subject:: Anthropology
Material Type:: Lecture
Provider:: Khan Academy
Provider Set:: Khan Academy
Author:: Khan, Salman
Date Added:: 02/20/2011

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Cosmology and Astronomy: Firestick Farming

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Cosmology and Astronomy: Firestick Farming

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This 8-minute video lesson looks at Firestick Farming and how the indigenous Australians used fire to change their environment. [Cosmology and Astronomy playlist: Lesson 76 of 85]

Subject:: Agriculture; Anthropology
Material Type:: Lecture
Provider:: Khan Academy
Provider Set:: Khan Academy
Author:: Khan, Salman
Date Added:: 02/20/2011

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Cosmology and Astronomy: Human Evolution Overview

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Cosmology and Astronomy: Human Evolution Overview

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This 12-minute video lesson provides an overview of evolution from from the extinction of the dinosaurs to humanity. [Cosmology and Astronomy playlist: Lesson 64 of 85]

Subject:: Anthropology
Material Type:: Lecture
Provider:: Khan Academy
Provider Set:: Khan Academy
Author:: Khan, Salman
Date Added:: 02/20/2011

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Cosmology and Astronomy: Land Productivity Limiting Human Population

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Cosmology and Astronomy: Land Productivity Limiting Human Population

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This 13-minute video lesson ponders how we get calories from the land and the limits of human population density. [Cosmology and Astronomy playlist: Lesson 83 of 85]

Subject:: Anthropology
Material Type:: Lecture
Provider:: Khan Academy
Provider Set:: Khan Academy
Author:: Khan, Salman
Date Added:: 02/20/2011

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The Crayon Rock Cycle

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In this activity, learners use crayons to draw conclusions about rocks and the rock cycle. Learners form crayons ((which can be "weathered"--heated, compressed and cooled--like rocks) into models of sedimentary, metamorphic, and igneous rocks.

Subject:: Geology
Material Type:: Activity/Lab
Provider:: Exploratorium
Author:: Eric Muller; The Exploratorium
Date Added:: 11/07/2004

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Cultural Anthropology/Globalization

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In this unit, you will explore globalization and development and its effects on indigenous peoples. Modern economic and political development is driven by the assumption that the results will be benefical for all people; however, cultural differences are not taken into consideration, leading often to the destruction of indigenous cultures. Understanding the context of modern development students become versant in the current debate about globalization.

By the end of the unit, you should be able to answer the following questions:

What is globalization?

How did the modern era of globalization develop?

What is the relationship between culture and globalization?

Subject:: Social Science; Anthropology; Sociology
Material Type:: Full Course
Author:: Tori Saneda of Cascadia Community College in Bothell; WA.
Date Added:: 05/01/2018

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Double Immunity

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Dr. Stephen O'Brien of the National Cancer Institute discovers a 700-year-old mutation that makes a person resistant to HIV infection. From Evolution: "Evolutionary Arms Race."

Subject:: Life Science; Anthropology
Material Type:: Activity/Lab
Provider:: PBS LearningMedia
Provider Set:: PBS Learning Media: Multimedia Resources for the Classroom and Professional Development; Teachers' Domain
Author:: Clear Blue Sky Productions; National Science Foundation; WGBH Educational Foundation
Date Added:: 09/26/2003

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