This OER introduces students to the four sub-disciplines of anthropology: cultural anthropology, biological anthropology, linguistic anthropology, and archaeology. The chapters are mostly derivative works that draw upon Perspectives, Explorations, and other previously published OER, and are augmented by the authors’ contributions. The editors’ goals are to present diverse perspectives and contemporary research across all four …
Category: Anthropology
Seventeen chapters with exercises organized into four units: Introduction to Biological Anthropology; Human Osteology; Primates; and Human Evolution. The text adheres to ANTH C1001L; includes lists of lab materials and OER background readings; covers the appendicular and axial skeleton; is updated regularly
This lab course is designed to give the students exposure to a range of biological anthropology topics including genetics and evolutionary theory, skeletal biology and forensic anthropology, primatology, and paleoanthropology. The course contains ten labs, each of which guides students througha pre-reflection, followed by a lecture and reading, a hands-on laboratory activity, and then a …
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A brief introductory text for linguistic anthropology with chapters on: language and culture; conveying meaning; ethnolinguistics; worldview and intercultural communication.
This is an introductory textbook for linguistics (not linguistic anthropology) but chapters could be used to provide foundational knowledge about languages.
Traces: An Open Invitation to Archaeology (Donahue, Ray, Scarborough, and Zovar – Whatcom Community College, FORTHCOMING) (CC BY) – LibreTexts 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.