Areas

Seven ways into the same subject

• Kinship & Family Structures

  Kin terms, descent, marriage rules, cousins and the structures families build, explained with diagrams and the notation anthropologists use.

  13 explainers

• Models in Anthropology

  Algebraic, statistical and simulation models of social life: what they assume, what they predict and how to read them critically.

  7 explainers

• Network Analysis

  Ties, density, centrality, brokers and small worlds: the network ideas that help describe villages, kin groups and communities.

  3 explainers

• Cultural Evolution

  How cultural traits are copied, changed and lost: transmission biases, drift, phylogenies and the comparative method.

  3 explainers

• Methods & Tools

  Fieldwork and analysis methods with worked examples: sampling, free lists, consensus analysis, coding and simple statistics.

  6 explainers

• Books & Teaching

  Reading guides, classic texts and classroom ideas for teaching kinship, networks and models.

  4 explainers

• Science & Society

  Where these ideas meet everyday life: family history, numbers, patterns, cooperation and the questions people ask about them.

  5 explainers