Open Educational Resources by Discipline

Free full-text editions of early anthropological works arranged geographically.

Native Peoples of North America by Dr. Susan Stebbins, Open SUNY is licensed under a Creative Commons

All available resources from OpenStax related to Anthropology.

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

Teaching activities and exercises brought together by the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.

In this project, students interview someone from another culture, conduct additional background research on that culture, and write a 5-6 page paper.

Course syllabi, assignments, and links to additional resources made available through the American Anthropological Association's Teaching Materials Exchange.

This introductory course integrates online lectures from a variety of sources. Many sections contain material overlapping with the main objectives for Cultural Anthropology courses.

Utah State University's free introductory Cultural Anthropology course materials include syllabus, course outline, quizzes, essays, and more.

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."

"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.

"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.

"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."