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Educational film series

Cultural Anthropology: Our Diverse World

Cultural Anthropology: Our Diverse World is now available to replace Faces of Culture – Revised. This new course 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. Cultural Anthropology: Our Diverse World explores the various ways in which the human species has responded to the fundamental challenges of survival, and students will gain a greater appreciation for the ways in which anthropologists work to study the cultural and biological aspects of humankind within the widest possible context–a mix of theoretical perspectives and methodologies.

Titles in this series

18 films

2008 · 30m

Applied Anthropology

The video begins with the anthropological definition of applied anthropology; that this field of study refers to the…

2008 · 30m

Becoming Human

Humans are first a biological species, Homo sapiens, but they are unique among all species in their capacity…

2008 · 30m

Characteristics of Culture

The state of Oaxaca, Mexico, is the backdrop of this film, which explores the nature of culture and…

2008 · 30m

Communication & Culture

This program focuses on the efforts of the Serrano tribe of Native American to revitalize their dying cultural…

2008 · 30m

Economic Systems

Economic systems are the means by which a society produces, distributes and consumes resources, and are intimately integrated…

2008 · 30m

Kinship & Descent

The video explains that kinships, or the strong familial networks within which individuals function on a daily basis,…

2008 · 30m

Marriage & Family

The video for Lesson 9 begins with Helen Mendoza and Pam Privett explaining that families can take many…

2008 · 30m

Politics, Power & Violence

This video explores the anthropological concepts of political organization and social control as practiced cross-culturally. It opens with…

2008 · 30m

Processes of Change

Throughout history, cultures have changed because of environmental conditions, internal pressures, or external forces. Change comes quickly, or…

2008 · 30m

Religion & Spirituality

The program opens with a general discussion of the anthropological definition of religion contrasted with spirituality. This is…

2008 · 30m

Sex & Marriage

The video opens with a wedding in Long Bow Village, in China, and effectively shows the diverse nature…

2008 · 30m

Subsistence Systems

This film focuses on three types of subsistence patterns: foraging, horticultural/ agricultural, and pastoralism. What all subsistence systems…

2008 · 30m

The Arts

This video lesson focuses on visual, verbal and musical art forms. Since art is created in response to…

2008 · 30m

The Essence of Anthropology

Exlains the four-fields of anthropology, defines the concept of hilsm, and describes how anthroplogists approach their subject matter…