Educational film series
Anthropology: The Four Fields introduces the central concepts, concerns, and research methods of cultural anthropology. It takes a cross-cultural approach to diverse subject areas, including subsistence patterns, political organization, the family, social organization, economics, kinship, language, the arts, and religion.
Titles in this series
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Anthropology: The Four Fields introduces the central concepts, concerns, and research methods of cultural anthropology. It takes a…
2008 · 30m
The video begins with the anthropological definition of applied anthropology; that this field of study refers to the…
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Humans are biological organisms that have a place in the natural world. To understand what it means to…
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The state of Oaxaca, Mexico, is the backdrop of this film, which explores the nature of culture and…
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This program focuses on the efforts of the Serrano tribe of Native American to revitalize their dying cultural…
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Economic systems are the means by which a society produces, distributes and consumes resources, and are intimately integrated…
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Exlains the four-fields of anthropology, defines the concept of hilsm, and describes how anthroplogists approach their subject matter…
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This lesson explores how the accelerated rate of cultural change continued to drive human innovation in ways that…
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This program explores the phenomenon of globalization, its complex forms, and its impact on the cultures of the…
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This program explores concepts related to non-kin based social groupings by focusing on the culture of the Black…
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This lesson details the technological, artistic, and geographic expansion of the Cro-Magnons, the anatomically modern humans of Europe…
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The video explains that kinships, or the strong familial networks within which individuals function on a daily basis,…
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Who is related to whom? How do species evolve? What has happened in geological time? This video focuses…
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The video for Lesson 20 begins with Helen Mendoza and Pam Privett explaining that families can take many…
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Experts at the cutting edge of paleoanthropological research show how it?s done. In this video, students are introduced…
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How do humans adapt to environmental challenges? In this video, experts explore this question from many angles. The…
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The video begins with comments on some instances of ethnic genocide that have occurred in the past in…
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This video explores the anthropological concepts of political organization and social control as practiced cross-culturally. It opens with…
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Around 780,000 years ago a new species of Homo appears, perhaps descended from the hominins that lived in…
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This lesson tackles why we study the behavior of nonhuman primates and how their behavior patterns can be…
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Throughout history, cultures have changed because of environmental conditions, internal pressures, or external forces. Change comes quickly, or…
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The program opens with a general discussion of the anthropological definition of religion contrasted with spirituality. This is…
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The video opens with a wedding in Long Bow Village, in China, and effectively shows the diverse nature…
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When studying how personality develops, we cannot ignore the role that sex and gender may play nor can…