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The Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology is a growing teaching and learning resource.

Its goal is to facilitate access to scholarship in Social Anthropology for experts and non-experts worldwide.

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Culture
In popular uses of ‘culture’, the term often refers to sets of artistic accomplishments or pleasant manners. In anthropology, however, ‘culture’ means something much broader and its...
March 2026 by Christoph Brumann
Health, Religion
Blood
Blood is a polyvalent substance. Its dual nature as a vital physical entity and a potent symbolic medium makes it indispensable to medicine but also to ritual practice, symbolism,...
February 2026 by Jieun Kim, Jacob Copeman
Economics, Theory
Beauty
Beauty is an aesthetic value that is tied to embodied practices, affects, and the senses. Whereas philosophers have long discussed beauty as disembodied aesthetics, and scientists...
February 2026 by Claudia Liebelt
Politics, Region
Secularism
The anthropology of secularism studies how nation-states actively shape ‘religion’ as a category, institutional structure, and lived experience. It does not treat secularism as an...
January 2026 by William Girard

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