Research Guides: OER: Cultural Anthropology

Cultural Anthropology OER

Project Gutenberg Anthropology Bookshelf
Free full-text editions of early anthropological works arranged geographically.
BC Campus OpenED
Open textbook project started with initiative from British Columbia Advanced Education and the BC campus. BC Campus OpenED offers 70 openly licensed textbooks
Native Peoples of North America
Native Peoples of North America by Dr. Susan Stebbins, Open SUNY is licensed under a Creative Commons
Anthropology Resources - OpenStax College
All available resources from OpenStax related to Anthropology.

Free Online Anthropology Videos
A wealth of videos and clips arranged by concepts, ethnographies, current topics, and more from OpenStax

Anthropology Teaching Activities
Teaching activities and exercises brought together by the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.
Cultural Anthropology Ethnography Assignment
In this project, students interview someone from another culture, conduct additional background research on that culture, and write a 5-6 page paper.
Teaching Materials Exchange - Anthropology
Course syllabi, assignments, and links to additional resources made available through the American Anthropological Association's Teaching Materials Exchange.

Introduction to Anthropology - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
This course from MIT OpenCourseWare "will provide a framework for analyzing diverse facets of human experience such as gender, ethnicity, language, politics, economics, and art."
Ethnic and National Identity - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"An introduction to the cross-cultural study of ethnic and national identity. We examine the concept of social identity, and consider the ways in which gendered, linguistic, religious, and ethno-racial identity components interact." From MIT OpenCourseWare.
How Culture Works - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"This course introduces diverse meanings and uses of the concept of culture with historical and contemporary examples from scholarship and popular media around the globe." From MIT OpenCourseWare.
Cultural Anthropology - OpenCourse Library
"Students examine the anthropological perspective of human culture, including such institutions as kinship, politics, and religion, and evaluate the interrelationship between culture, environment and biology."