Introduction to Sociocultural Anthropology

OpenStax introduction to anthropology integrating the four-field approach across cultural, biological, archaeological, and linguistic anthropology. Strong coverage of contemporary issues including globalization, health, race, and indigenous rights.

Jennifer Hasty, David G. Lewis and Marjorie M. Snipes

An open-access cultural anthropology textbook by Michael Wesch that uses storytelling, photography, and ethnographic fieldwork to introduce culture, language, kinship, religion, and identity. Designed to spark wonder and questioning rather than memorization.

Michael Wesch

Essays bridging evolutionary biology, cognitive science, and anthropology to explain how human cultural patterns emerge from universal mind processes. Pascal Boyer applies the scientific lens to religion, kinship, morality, and conflict.

Pascal Boyer

An open introduction to cultural anthropology from the American Anthropological Association covering culture, fieldwork, language, kinship, religion, economics, gender, and globalization. Each chapter is written by working anthropologists and includes vivid ethnographic examples.

Nina Brown, Thomas McIlwraith, Laura Tubelle de Gonzalez