A brief introductory text for linguistic anthropology with chapters on: language and culture; conveying meaning; ethnolinguistics; worldview and intercultural communication.
Category: Anthropology
This is an introductory textbook for linguistics (not linguistic anthropology) but chapters could be used to provide foundational knowledge about languages.
This OER is a multi-authored, peer reviewed textbook for undergraduate lower-level introductory archaeology courses. It is nearing completion and currently being beta-tested.
This OER explores archeology as the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture specifically artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts and cultural landscapes, with a focus on the Americas.
Multi-authored, peer-reviewed, accessible chapters. 16 chapters focus on essential topics in introductory archaeology courses (emphasis on theory and methods). Each chapter includes: learning objectives, terms list, review questions, one or more activities (activities include: short in-person activities, hands-on activities, short-term and full-term projects, indoor and outdoor activities, individual and group work). Flexible modality for in-person …
Introduction to Archaeology: A Workbook, is designed to assist students in the Intro to Archaeology course by giving them questions and assignments to reinforce what is learned in the classroom lectures.
Covering a temporal span of some 5000 years, from c.3200 BCE to the present day, and ranging from the Americas to the Near East, chapters in this volume bring various perspectives to questions of writing materialities.
A comprehensive, peer-reviewed, multi-authored OER for introductory biological anthropology courses. This book chapters explore evolutionary theory, genetics, nonhuman primates origin/evolution, hominin origin/evolution, human adaptation, and other topics. Provides ancillaries, including lecture slides, guided reading notes, and testbank. A complete lab manual, with 2-4 labs/activities per chapter is also available.
This textbook introduces students to evolutionary theory, nonhuman primates, and human evolution.
OpenStax Introduction to Anthropology is a four-field text integrating diverse voices, engaging field activities, and meaningful themes like Indigenous experiences and social inequality to engage students and enrich learning.