ANT232: Foundations of Cultural Anthropology
A self-paced introduction to cultural anthropology that teaches you how anthropologists study human diversity, from kinship and ritual to economics, power, and globalization. You'll learn core theory, practice ethnographic methods, and read classic and contemporary case studies. By the end you'll be able to analyze any social world — including your own — with an anthropological eye.
What Is Anthropology?
Orient yourself to the discipline, its four fields, and the central idea of culture.
Unit Test: What Is Anthropology?
8 questions · pass at 75%
How Anthropologists Know: Ethnographic Method
Learn the craft of fieldwork and start practicing it in your own environment.
Unit Test: How Anthropologists Know: Ethnographic Method
8 questions · pass at 75%
Language, Symbols, and Meaning
Explore how humans build shared worlds through communication and symbolic systems.
Unit Test: Language, Symbols, and Meaning
8 questions · pass at 75%
Making a Living: Economy, Ecology, Exchange
Study how societies organize subsistence, property, and the circulation of goods.
Unit Test: Making a Living — Economy, Ecology, Exchange
8 questions · pass at 75%
Social Organization: Kinship, Gender, and Power
Analyze the structures through which people are related, ranked, and governed.
Unit Test: Social Organization — Kinship, Gender, and Power
8 questions · pass at 75%
Globalization and Contemporary Anthropology
Apply anthropological tools to migration, medicine, markets, and digital life.
Unit Test: Globalization and Contemporary Anthropology
8 questions · pass at 75%
Synthesis and Independent Ethnographic Project
Consolidate the course by producing an original piece of anthropological analysis.
Unit Test: Synthesis and Independent Ethnographic Project
8 questions · pass at 75%
ANT232 Final Exam: Foundations of Cultural Anthropology
ANT232 Final Exam: Foundations of Cultural Anthropology
15 questions · pass at 75%