Perspectives: An Open Introduction to Cultural 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 introduction to sociocultural anthropology covering culture concept, kinship, religion, economic systems, and ethnographic methods, written for health science students. Lecture notes developed with The Carter Center.

Zerihun Doda, M.A.