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Archeology
Looking for all types of content for Intro to Archaeology and Magic, Folklore and Healing, aka Magic, Witchcraft and Religion or Magic, Myth and Healing for an Anthropology colleague of mine.
One of our instructors shared her materials for the Magic course in Canvas Commons. I think this link will work: https://lor.instructure.com/resource...f4847feb6f29e9
If not, search commons for “magic, witchcraft and religion” and the course should come up.
Anthropology
We list a selection of Anthropology Open Access and OER here as well.
http://library.hccs.edu/guides/anthropology/websites
I have an anthropology instructor who is seeking a quality text on taxonomy and behavior of primates for an introductory anthro course. He already has Our Tribe from OpenSUNY but would like something specifically on primates. He is also seeking a concise OER on evolution.
I am one of the managing editors for a new peer-reviewed, mulit-authored, open access introduction to biological anthropology textbook that will be coming out in the Fall of 2019 (produced in part by the Society of Anthropology in Community Colleges and the American Anthropological Association). It will be a comprehensive text that can be used for four-field introductory courses (in conjunction with the new open access Perspectives: An Open Invitation to Cultural Anthropology< http://perspectives.americananthro.org/ > textbook) as well as biological anthropology courses. If he would like to get on our email list of the first to have access and receive notice of the completed text he can send us his email.
Below are some of the resources I use for Evolution in my Biology course.
Berkeley has a great Evolution tutorial (and lots of other great content). It’s not Open, but you can link to it for free. This is probably the best of these resources for straight evolution. They have lots of great stuff.
OpenStax Concepts of Biology. This is their book for non-majors. They also have a book for majors if you need more depth in the evolution sections. [You can pick out the specific chapters]
CK-12 Biology. This site covers material for Kindergarten through college; so the depth of coverage varies greatly. They have a long list of concepts; search for evolution within. I have found that students really like this resource and it’s nice that you can build a piece that just covers evolution
LearnGenetics has some great resources. These are not Open, but you can link to them for free.
HHMI BioInteractive also has some great resources. Again, not Open but free.
The anthropology department here is looking for an OER with a holistic four field approach (cultural, biological, linguistics, and archaeology) in one textbook. Here's what we've found so far:
ANTH 101: Anthropology for Everyone (mostly cultural?)
Explorations: An Open Invitation To Biological Anthropology
The History of Our Tribe: Hominini
The Art of Being Human: A Textbook for Cultural Anthropology
Speaking of Culture
Perspectives: An Open Invitation to Cultural Anthropology
There are also library ebook licenses available for the following non-OER books:
Investigating Culture: An Experiential Introduction to Anthropology
How to Think Like an Anthropologist
Invitation to Anthropology
Our Story: How Cultures Shaped People to Get Things Done
I would recommend checking out the various open access offerings in Anthropology as well. For example, the following titles in Berghan books (via Oxford): https://www.berghahnjournals.com/page/berghahn-open-anthro could have some great articles worth integrating into mid-high-level ANTH courses.
In addition, I would recommend:
Cultural Anthropology
Indigenous Knowledge: Other Ways of Knowing
Anthropological Review
Student Anthropologist (this is particularly exciting as a potential peer learning experience with open pedagogy prospects)
We've got a new archeology offering - which we still need to place in a format that allows for customization:
Digging into Archaeology: A Brief OER Introduction to Archaeology with Activities
In addition, our faculty have created ancillaries for both Explorations and Perspectives, if that might be of interest.
Over at LibreTexts. we have a number of textbooks that can be easily remixed on the page level (using our drag and drop remixer) to get close to what your anthro folks want. I;ll list some of the books, which seem obvious to me, but there may be others that they could find if they looked around on our bookshelves and we could import any of the ones that you list into our format for them to use
Cultural Anthropology Book: Perspectives - An Open Invitation to Cultural Anthropology
Cultural Anthropology Book: Native Peoples of North America
Cultural Anthropology Book: Cultural Anthropology
Cultural Anthropology Book: Cultural Anthropology
Cultural Anthropology Book: Cultural Anthropology
Cultural Anthropology Book: The Art of Being Human
Cultural Anthropology Book: Perspectives - An Open Invitation to Cultural Anthropology
Physical Anthropology Book: The History of Our Tribe - Hominini
Physical Anthropology Book: Biological Anthropology
Physical Anthropology Book: Physical Anthropology
Physical Anthropology Book: Biological Anthropology - Laboratory Activities
Archeology Book: Writing as Material Practice - Substance, Surface and Medium
Ancillary Materials Interactive Fossils
Archeology Book: Writing as Material Practice - Substance, Surface and Medium
Sociology Book: Beyond Race - Cultural Influences on Human Social Life
Geography (Human) Book: Introduction to Human Geography
I have a faculty member at the College of Lake County who is looking for material for an applied Anthropology course.
They are hoping to find resources on how anthropology is applied in each of the topics number 3-11.
The first two are more to give a well rounded understanding of anthropology, applied anthropology and fieldwork methods and theories
before diving into how to apply those methods and theories.
1. Introduction to Applied Anthropology
2. Anthropological Fieldwork Methods and Theories
3. Language Revitalization
4. Archaeology
5. Business
6. Medical Anthropology
7. Economy
8. Food and Nutrition in Education
9. Media
10. Sustainability
11. Social Justice
My name is Lindsay Josephs, and I work for OpenStax. We're an educational initiative based out of Rice University.
With the support of our philanthropic partners, we publish free online, peer-reviewed, openly-licensed textbooks.
OpenStax currently has a free Anthropology textbook on our website with applied chapters on the anthropology of food,
medical anthropology, anthropology of media, human-animal relationships, and Indigenous anthropology. I've pasted the descriptions below:
“Anthropology of Food,” including material on food artifacts, ancient foodways and food reconstructions, food as cultural heritage,
food prescriptions and proscriptions, and the globalization of food.
“Medical Anthropology,” with material on the history of medical anthropology, the social construction of health,
common medical anthropology methods and theoretical approaches, and applied medical anthropology.
"Anthropology of Media,” addressing topics such as visual anthropology and ethnographic film, photography and representation,
news media and the public sphere, the role of media in the development of national identity, and digital media.
“Human-Animal Relationships,” including discussions of multispecies ethnography, human-animal empathy,
human-animal relationships among people practicing varying subsistence strategies, animal symbolism in oral tradition and religion,
and pet keeping.
“Indigenous Anthropology,” which, through the lens of the experiences of the Indigenous peoples of North America, addresses
the historical and contemporary challenges facing Indigenous people, including issues of agency, rights, and identity, as well as exploring Indigenous material cultures, perspectives, and worldviews.
The text also offers a chapter on cultural and archaeological research methods.
You can access the textbook for free online here: https://openstax.org/details/books/introduction-anthropology.
Please let me know if you have any questions or require any further support.
We currently offer 3 free online chemistry textbooks: Chemistry 2e, Chemistry: Atoms First 2e,
and John McMurry's Organic Chemistry: A Tenth Edition.
These textbooks also come with free instructor and student resources, including solutions manuals,
LMS course cartridges, supplemental test items, and lecture slides.
OpenStax currently offers two free accounting textbooks: Principles of Financial Accounting and Principles of Managerial Accounting.
Lyryx offers a low-cost accounting homework system aligned to financial and managerial accounting. The program includes spreadsheets,
algorithm problems, and a high degree of customization. Please visit Lyryx to learn more.
Archeology
Looking for all types of content for Intro to Archaeology and Magic, Folklore and Healing, aka Magic, Witchcraft and Religion or Magic, Myth and Healing for an Anthropology colleague of mine.
One of our instructors shared her materials for the Magic course in Canvas Commons. I think this link will work: https://lor.instructure.com/resources/28e54a4e827241b2a4f4847feb6f29e9
If not, search commons for “magic, witchcraft and religion” and the course should come up.
Cannabis
A faculty member is seeking an OER textbook for a course about Anthropology & Cannabis.
Ideally it would be materials that deal with cannabis related to each of the four branches of anthropology: cultural, physical, linguistic, and archaeology.
Have any of you come across a single resource that addresses this?
I'm guessing that the faculty will need to do some remixing to achieve this text.
But I figured I'd check with all of you first!!
Here is the non-OER book that I had been recommending to Jennifer. I thought it was 2019, but it turns out that it's 1975.
https://www.amazon.com/Cannabis-Culture-World-Anthropology-Rubin/dp/9027976694/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=anthropology+cannabis&qid=1581093490&s=books&sr=1-1
Cultural Anthropology
Hi there, during this year our anthropology program is piloting the new OER (open sourced) Intro to Cultural Anthropology text that is published by our Society for Anthropology in the Community College (SACC) colleagues:
http://sacc.americananthro.org/publication/open-source-textbook/
Critique: We've found it is a mixed bag; some of the chapters are quite good, others are really bad, some are entirely superfluous for an intro text. We have been ensured that SACC plans to do a much better job with the 102 text. Our colleague Joylin Namie will be a co-author and I've spoken with the editors about our concerns for the 101 text.
Question: Our plan is to supplement the existing SACC OER 101 text by substituting better chapters from other texts for some of the topics. How much of any non-OER published text can we copy/PDF and provide to our students online through Canvas without getting in trouble with private publishers or the law? I've heard the number is 3 chapters, but I want to be sure. I want an official answer based on what is known to be legal and professionally ethical at this time. Our goal is to make this work, to finalize an acceptable text for our ANTH 101 students, and move forward not having to worry about legal or ethical issues. Thanks in advance for your advice.
I am one of the authors of this textbook and I can assure you that the second edition of Perspectives is in progress. In it, there will be a new introduction chapter and changes to some of the other chapters. I know that SUNY anth faculty have adapted and changed some of the textbook chapters to better fit their needs. They may be willing to share with you what they produced from thePerspectives text. It may work as a stop gap until the second edition is completed sometime next year.
I am also one of the editors for the new SACC biological anthropology textbook: Explorations: An Open Invitation to Biological Anthropology. I hope Joylin Namie won’t mind me saying that she did indeed write a marvelous chapter for Explorations. The completed volume will be available by Fall, 2019.
All the best,
Katie Nelson, Ph.D.
Instructor, Anthropology
Equity and Inclusion Coordinator
(Pronouns: she, her, hers)
Chair, Teaching Anthropology Interest Group, AAA
Communications Coordinator, General Anthropology Division of the American Anthropological Association
Online Content Editor, Teaching and Learning Anthropology Journal
Inver Hills Community College
Inver Grove Heights, MN 55056
Office: Fine Arts Building, Room 157
Phone: 651-450-3492
Physical Anthropology
Can anyone recommend texts/mash-ups for an introductory Physical Anthro course (not cultural anthro).
We can recommend the Open SUNY Textbook The History of our Tribe: Hominini. It may not be a full answer to everything in the physical anthropology course but will be a good starting resource.
Race and Ethnicity
I've looked in all the usual places but am having difficulty locating a textbook for an Anthropology/Sociology course, Introduction to Race and Ethnicity.
Course description: Introduces the study of race and ethnicity from sociological and anthropological perspectives.
Examines how race and ethnicity operate in relation to identities, interactions, institutions, cultures, and systems, with a focus on inequality and power.
Focuses on race and ethnicity in the contemporary U.S., with historical and cross-cultural comparisons.
I did find this one on LibreTexts - Sociology of Race and Ethnicity which may do, but I want to give the faculty options.
We (LibreTexts) have a range of ethnic studies texts on our SocialSci library ( https://socialsci.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Ethnic_Studies )
and a several texts in the Sociology Bookshelf ( https://socialsci.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Sociology/Cultural_Sociology_and_Social_Problems ).
Hopefully they will help you. As with all our host OER, you can remix easily and quickly using any parts of these books into a new remix for your needs
(with or without editing). Let me know if you need any assistance.
From Canada, here. Have you checked the following from the BCcampus catalogue already?
Introduction to Sociology 2e
Or BCcampus’ OER by Discipline Directory? They have a few books for Sociology – OER by Discipline Directory
that might meet your needs, but from a Canadian perspective. There may be some gems in there, though.
This is another one. It's an adaptation of the OpenStax book.
https://www.saskoer.ca/soc112/