The Art of Being Human - A Textbook for 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

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

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.