Bridgeman Arts
Sacred tribal dance. Sorcerer dances to the snake. Madagascar 1930s.
Part 1 of Aux Quatre coins du Monde avec Lowell Thomas : De Madagascar - Tombouctou / Going Places with Lowell Thomas. Sacred tribal dance. Sorcerer dances to the snake. Madagascar 1930s.
Bridgeman Arts
A young shepherd proposes to a woman. Wedding celebration with music, staged combat and dancing. Mali 1930s
Part 10 of Aux Quatre coins du Monde avec Lowell Thomas / Going Places with Lowell Thomas. A young shepherd meets the bride-to-be's father and in front of him asks her to marry him. She accepts and they go together. Wedding celebration...
Bloomberg
Yo-Yo Ma Says He Was a 'Very Confused Child'
Jul.12 -- World-renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma tells financier and philanthropist David Rubenstein about how studying anthropology at Harvard had a profound effect on his life and his music. They speak on "The David Rubenstein Show:...
Crash Course
Why Human Evolution Matters: Crash Course Big History #204
Is the progression of human complexity due to eating meat? The 14th video in a 16-part series attempts to answer this and other thought-provoking questions. It relates the process of human evolution and innovation to our ability to learn...
American Museum of Natural History
Ask a Scientist About Mummies
Many are aware of the mummies found in the tombs of Egypt. But in addition to the mummified bodies of the ancient pharaohs like King Tut, archaeologists also found cat mummies, dog mummies, and alligator mummies. In a video interview,...
American Museum of Natural History
Meet the OLogist David Hurst Thomas
David Hurst Thomas loves the children's book The Cat in the Hat and Rocky Road ice cream. He's also loves being an archaeologist. Thomas shares his passion for studying old things in a short video where he answers questions posed by...
Macat
An Introduction to Lave and Wenger's Situated Learning
Learning begins with observation. A video summary of Lave and Wegner's Situated Learning discusses the importance of observation and apprenticeship in learning as part of a larger playlist on the world's greatest ideas. The video...
Macat
An Introduction to Saba Mahmood’s Politics of Piety
Do traditional customs of Islam contradict western feminism? Explore this and more using a video summary of Saba Mahmood's Politics of Piety, part of an extensive playlist about the world's greatest ideas. It addresses a common...
Macat
Intro to Evans-Pritchard’s Witchcraft, Oracles, and Magic among the Azande
Oxford professor E.E. Evans-Pritchard's Witchcraft, Oracles, and Magic among the Azande is credited with developing the field of social anthropology. Introduce viewers to his argument that in the absence of science, societies like the...
Crash Course
War and Human Nature: Crash Course World History 204
Is aggression part of human nature? What about warfare? Crash Course World History takes high schoolers through the anthropological perspective of war, as well as the philosophical and biological points of view, and explores whether or...
Channel Islands Film
Cache
The excavation of a cache of artifacts found on San Nicolas Island, a part of the Channel Island chain, is the focus of a documentary that shows how archaeologists uncover artifacts and use these finds to attempt to understand the...
TED-Ed
What Can You Learn From Ancient Skeletons?
Skeletons may not be able to speak, but they can still tell us a lot. High schoolers watch a short video about the ways biological anthropologists can use a skeleton's bone structure to determine age, gender, place of birth, and social...
Macat
An Introduction to Claude Levi-Strauss’s Structural Anthropology
Claude Levi-Strauss’s Structural Anthropology contends that distance and details separate world cultures—and not much else. High schoolers watch a short explanatory video to learn more about the theory of structuralism, the...
Macat
An Introduction to Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel
Could geography really be the most logical explanation for the success rate of any given population? Jared Diamond makes his anthropological contention in his 1997 publication Guns, Germs, and Steel. A short explores his main points and...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Bubonic Plague
In this video segment adapted from A Science Odyssey, learn about bubonic plague and how city officials in San Francisco tried to contain its spread in the early 1900s. [5:06]
PBS
Pbs Nova: Becoming Human, Part 1
"Where did we come from? What makes us human?" Becoming Human is a three-part comprehensive examination of the latest research on our hominid relatives. Part 1 takes a critical look at what set us on the path from ape to human. The...
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of Natural History: Qrius: Forensic Anthropology Bone Whispering
This forensics anthropologist probes into the stories bones can tell about the environment, the life and the death of the past. [29:15]
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Talks: Jane Goodall: What Separates Us From Chimpanzees?
This speech by primatologist Jane Goodall discusses the differences between humans and chimps. The resource also includes a biography of Goodall. [27:27]
History of Our World
Podcast History of Our World: 2 the Dawn of Man
Podcast thoroughly discusses the theory of evolution in an episode that is informative and clever. [19:06]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Intro to Anthropology
A video discussing how an anthropologist's job is to understand our past and present. [5:45]
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: New Fossil May Trim Branches of Human Evolution
Could Homo erectus, Homo habilis, and the rest of the Homo genus be one species?
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Art History and Other Disciplines
This lesson will explore the relationship between art history and other fields of study.