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Author: Selena Silva-Ortega
An introductory textbook for cultural anthropology organized by three major topics: Anthropology & Culture; Social Institutions; Globalization, Modernization, & Development
Beliefs: An Open Invitation to the Anthropology of Magic, Witchcraft, and Religion (Zunner-Keating and Avetyan, 2020) – Pressbooks (CC BY 4.0) Includes Soundcloud recordings of each chapter, links to primary sources and articles, and eleven chapters covering topics typically included in an introductory course on anthropology of magic, witchcraft, and religion, including: theoretical approaches, witchcraft, …
A comprehensive, multi-authored, peer-reviewed OER textbook for introduction to cultural anthropology courses. Includes chapters on all topics typically covered in an introductory course and chapters that explore specialized topics. Includes ancillaries, including lecture slides, instructor manual, and test bank.
There are various resources listed here that may provide lab materials for Biological Anthropology lab courses, or background readings/resources for such courses.
A collection of labs covering: bone identification; Hardy-Weinberg; primates; bone injuries; hominin cranium comparison. Recommended to be used with Biological Anthropology coursework. From the author: The instructor is expected to present the base material that students will need to complete each activity. This allows the instructor to mold the activities to their own approach. Students …
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This textbook accompanies the free and open Introduction to Cultural Anthropology multimedia course available at: ANTH101.com. Wesch introduces core anthropological concepts and illustrates them by drawing on his own fieldwork experiences and contemporary U.S. examples
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