Resource Guides: ANTH& 100, Survey of Anthropology with Ashley Pickard: Cultural Anthropology

Explore these resources on Cultural Anthropology to learn more, get topic ideas, and find resources for your project. Interested in a topic not covered? Email Haley for suggested resources.

Investigating Culture: An Experiential Introduction to Anthropology

Applied Anthropology

Small Places, Large Issues: An Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology

Encyclopedia of Social and Cultural Anthropology

Documentaries and Videos

Human: What it Means to Be Human
A collection of stories about and images of our world, offering an immersion to the core of what it means to be human.
Secrets of the Tribe
The field of anthropology goes under the magnifying glass in this fiery investigation of the seminal research on Yanomamo Indians.
Damiana Kryygi: The Story of an Aché Girl
In the dense Paraguayan jungle of 1896, a three year-old girl survives the massacre of her Ache family by white settlers. The captive girl is baptized Damiana and becomes an object of scientific interest. Her body is photographed and measured as part of racial studies conducted by Argentine and German anthropologists, and this continues even after her untimely death at the age of 14.

Online Resources

Sean Sherman’s 10 Essential Native American Recipes
NY Times
What We Lose When We Lose Indigenous Knowledge
JSTOR Daily
White ladies cooking in plantation museums are a denial of history
The Conversation