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Add free, open Anthropology subjects | Web Site | Organization (if any) | Degree / Non-degree | Instructor's Name | Location | Other Info | Language | Tags |
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Anthropology Courses | http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/anthropology/ | MIT | non-degree | Browser | Start anytime | English | undergraduate, graduate | |
Ethnic and National Identity | http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/anthropology/21a-226-ethnic-and-national-identity-fall-2009/ | MIT | non-degree | Prof. Jean Jackson | Browser | Start anytime | English | undergraduate |
A General Introduction to Sociocultural Anthropology | http://www.alanmacfarlane.com/FILES/lectures.html | (Cambridge University) | non-degree | Prof. Alan MacFarlane | Browser | What is Social Anthropology?, Some Technical Terms used by Anthropologists, Introduction to Kinship and Marriage, Politics and Economic Life, Strategies of Survival, Introduction to Religion and Ritual given by Dr Stephen Hugh-Jones, Symbols, Language and Communication | English | |
History of Anthropological Thought | http://webcast.berkeley.edu/course_details_new.php?seriesid=2010-B-2603&semesterid=2010-B | UC Berkeley | non-degree | Prof. Rosemary Joyce | Browser | Start anytime | English | |
Introduction to Anthropology | http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/anthropology/21a-100-introduction-to-anthropology-fall-2004/ | MIT | non-degree | Prof. James Howe | Browser | Start anytime | English | undergraduate |
Photography and Truth | http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/anthropology/21a-348-photography-and-truth-spring-2008/ | MIT | non-degree | Prof. James Howe | Browser | Start anytime | English | undergraduate |
Science, Technology, and Society Courses | http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/science-technology-and-society/ | MIT | non-degree | Browser | Start anytime | English | undergraduate, graduate | |
Social Theory and Analysis | http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/anthropology/21a-750j-social-theory-and-analysis-fall-2004/ | MIT | non-degree | Prof. Michael M. Fischer | Browser | Start anytime | English | Graduate |
Course's Name | http:// | non-degree | Browser | Start anytime | English |
WUaS Idea- and Academic Resources
Field Work
Ideas
Pairbonding, Troopbonding, Abidance, Ycleptance, Foredoomance, Adhibition, Inhibition, Explication - John Money's 'Concepts of Determinism' as universal, transhistorical and transcultural: http://scottmacleod.com/anthropology/determinism.htm (Money 1988: 114?)
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AAA Medical Anthropology Blog. 2010. Voices from Medical Anthropology. The American Anthropological Association.
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Boellstorff, Tom. 2008. Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.
Bohannan, Paul and Dirk van der Elst. 1998. Asking and Listening: Ethnography As Personal Adaptation. Long Grove, IL: Waveland Press, Inc.
Cerwonka, Allaine and Liisa Malkki. 2007. Improvising Theory: Process and Temporality in Ethnographic Fieldwork. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
Clifford, James and George E. Marcus (eds.). 1986. Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
Fischer, Michael M. J. 2004. Emergent Forms of Life and The Anthropological Voice. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
Hatch, Elvin. 1974. Theories of Man and Culture. New York, NY: Columbia University Press.
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Hall, Barbara. 2010. What is Ethnography. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania.
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Karpiak, Kevin. 2010. Anthropoliteia: the anthropology of policing - police and security studies from an anthropological perspective. Eastern Michigan University.
Urton, Gary. 2010. Ethnography and Archaeology. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University.
Select Textbooks
Delaney, Carol. 2004. Investigating Culture: An Experiential Introduction to Anthropology. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.
Kottak, Conrad. 2005. Mirror for Humanity: A Concise Introduction to Cultural Anthropology (with PowerWeb) (6th ed.). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages.
Select Video and Audio
Hobart, Mark. 2010. Mark Hobart Inaugural Lecture - A Very Peculiar Practice. (The lecture illustrates with images and video two apparently quite different instances from the Indonesian archipelago - (The title is taken from Andrew Davies’s 1986 BBC comedy series about the workings of a university medical practice: http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/classic/verypeculiar/interview.shtml). London, UK: University of London.
Posthuman
Theys, Frank. 2006. Transhumanist´s Wet Dreams - Technocalyps. (echnocalyps is an intriguing three-part documentary on the notion of transhumanism by Belgian visual artist and filmmaker Frank Theys. The latest findings in genetics, robotics, artificial intelligence, bionics and nanotechnology appear in the media every day, but with no analysis of their common aim: that of exceeding human limitations). Belgium: Votnik.
Select Websites
Anthropology of the Contemporary. 2010. http://anthropos-lab.net. Berkeley, CA: UC Berkeley.
Royal Anthropological Institute. 2010. http://www.therai.org.uk. England.
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World University and School's 'Biological Anthropology' subject - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Biological_Anthropology
World University and School's 'Evolutionary Biology' subject - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Evolutionary_Biology
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