Social Sciences - OER and Alternative Course Materials

- a free alternative to expensive Introduction to Cultural Anthropology textbooks
- a full textbook, original videos, podcasts, and curated digital materials
- a unique anthropology class featuring 10 challenges for transformative learning
- a “connected course” of many faculty around the world sharing instructional materials
- an open course freely available to anyone online

A publication of the American Anthropological Association

BC Campus Open Textbook

American Memory provides free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience. It is a digital record of American history and creativity.

The collections of the Department of Anthropology are a vast and unparalleled resource for inquiry into the world's cultures, from prehistory to the present day.

The internationally recognized WorldImages database provides access to the California State University IMAGE Project.

GlobalXplorer° is an online platform that uses the power of the crowd to analyze the incredible wealth of satellite images currently available to archaeologists.

Personal and professional papers consisting of correspondence, diaries, notebooks, manuscripts and typescripts, articles, speeches, financial papers, reports, teaching materials, and photographs.

"Speaking of Culture” is a collection of instructor-authored background readings intended to accompany other activities, discussions, experiences, projects, and readings in a cross cultural perspectives course. Its main purpose is to define culture and other concepts often associated with it. CC-BY-NC license.

Digital Commons network repository of works in the fields of social and cultural anthropology

CC-BY-NC license

This site is designed for teachers and students with interests in exploring and learning about folklife and community-based educational activities.