School of Anthropology & Society › Anthropology Resource Hub
Thirty-three substantive resources. Each is a guidance framework with real instructional content, not an empty download. File attachments and interactive tools will be added by Codex; the guidance is the authoritative content.
1. Anthropology Terminology Glossary
Concise academic definitions of core terms (culture, society, ethnography, reflexivity, positionality, ritual, kinship) with notes on contested usage.
2. History of Anthropology Timeline
A framework timeline of the discipline’s development, including its self-critique of colonial legacies; each entry requires a source.
3. Anthropological Theories Comparison Chart
A chart comparing major theoretical traditions by core question, method, and limits, without ranking them as superior.
4. Culture and Society Concept Map
A concept map linking culture, meaning, power, institutions, and change to prevent treating culture as static.
5. Comparative-Analysis Worksheet
A worksheet for cross-cultural comparison that guards against hierarchy and stereotype and requires context.
6. Researcher Positionality Statement Template
A template prompting reflection on identity, power, access, privilege, and bias in physical and virtual settings.
7. Reflexivity Journal Template
A structured journal for recording assumptions, emotions, decisions, and their effects during research.
8. Fieldwork Planning Template
A planning template covering questions, sites, access, ethics, logistics, and risk.
9. Field-Site Risk Assessment
A risk-assessment tool for safety, sensitivity, and ethical hazards before entering a site.
10. Participant-Information Sheet Template
A plain-language template explaining a study to potential participants before consent.
11. Informed-Consent Template
A consent template covering purpose, voluntariness, confidentiality, withdrawal, and data use; adapt to local ethics requirements.
12. Participant-Observation Guide
Guidance on observing and participating ethically while distinguishing observation from interpretation.
13. Field-Note Template
A template separating raw observation, participant statements, and analytic memos.
14. Thick-Description Worksheet
A worksheet for producing contextualized description rather than thin summary.
15. Interview-Guide Template
A template for semi-structured interview guides with ethical prompts.
16. Life-History Interview Template
A template for eliciting and documenting life histories respectfully.
17. Oral-Testimony Documentation Guide
Guidance on recording, consent, and stewardship of oral testimony.
18. Focus-Group Guide
A guide for planning and facilitating ethical focus groups.
19. Visual-Consent Form Template
A consent template specific to photography and recording, with rights and withdrawal.
20. Photography and Recording Ethics Checklist
A checklist for consent, dignity, and safety in visual documentation.
21. Ethnographic Coding Framework
A framework for coding qualitative material transparently and revisably.
22. Thematic-Analysis Worksheet
A worksheet for identifying, defining, and evidencing themes.
23. Cultural-Domain Analysis Worksheet
A worksheet for mapping cultural categories and their relationships.
24. Ritual-Analysis Template
A template for analyzing ritual structure, meaning, and context without exoticizing.
25. Religious-Authority Mapping Template
A template for mapping how religious authority is claimed and recognized.
26. Kinship and Family Mapping Worksheet
A worksheet for diagramming kinship and family relations.
27. Institutional Ethnography Template
A template for studying institutions from the standpoint of those who inhabit them.
28. Social-Network Mapping Guide
Guidance on mapping social relations ethically and with consent.
29. Conflict-Sensitive Fieldwork Checklist
A checklist for do-no-harm fieldwork in conflict-affected settings.
30. Disaster-Fieldwork Ethics Checklist
A checklist for ethical, non-extractive research in disaster settings.
31. Community Feedback and Reciprocity Plan
A plan for returning findings to and benefiting the community studied.
32. Ethnographic Writing Structure
A structure for writing ethnography that protects participants and evidences claims.
33. Final Ethnographic-Quality Checklist
A final checklist covering ethics, evidence, reflexivity, and representation before sharing work.
Content Status: DRAFT — 33 resource guidance sets written. File attachments pending Codex.