a free online textbook for Cultural Anthropology by Michael Wesch
Introduction
An Invitation to Anthropology
Lesson 1: Fieldwork
Asking Questions, Making Connections, and Trying New Things
Challenge: Talking to Strangers
Lesson 2: Culture
The Art of Seeing
Growing Up Among the Nacirema
Challenge: Fieldwork of the Familiar
Lesson 3: Evolution
Who are we? Human Evolution
The (Un)Making of the Modern Body
Challenge 3: The 28 Day Challenge
Lesson 4: Language
The Power of Language
Challenge 4: Word-Weaving
Lesson 5: Infrastructure
Tools and Their Humans
Mediated Culture
Challenge 5: The UnThing Experiment
Lesson 6: Social Structure
How Reality gets Real-ized: Gender
Love in Four Cultures
Race as a Bio-Cultural Construction
Challenge 6: Get Uncomfortable
Lesson 7: Superstructure
Big Questions about Morality
How to Stop Hating & the Dynamics of Culture
Religion and the Wisdom of the World
Challenge 7: The Other Encounter
Lesson 8: Globalization
How does the world work?
Challenge 8: Global Connections
Lesson 9: “The Good Life”
Creating “The Good Life”
The Power of Storytelling
Challenge 9: Meaning Making
Lesson 10: The Art of Being Human
There Are No Accidents: The Paul Farmer Story
If Paul Farmer is the Model, We’re Screwed Golden
Challenge 10: Write your Manifesto