Anthropology Research Guide

This collection includes approximately 800 documentaries on various topics in anthropology, including religion, social systems, kinship, ethnicity, and forensic techniques.

VAST features approximately 1500 videos in the discipline of anthropology, primarily cultural anthropology. Videos address a number of topics, including cultural identity, religious rites, and gender roles.

This program explores the concept of heaven according to some followers of Christianity, Buddhism, Islam, Judaism, and Hinduism. The video includes expert commentary about the historical evolution of the notion of heaven.

This National Geographic film examines the role of family in the social fabric of different societies, addressing questions such as the universality of gender roles within a family group.

This 90-minute video provides a comprehensive introduction to the application of forensic science to crime scenes where human remains have been found. Topics covered include the decomposition timeline, identifying human remains, identifying burial sites, locating remains via grid-based searching, establishing the crime scene, forensic botany, forensic entomology, forensic anthropology, and special considerations for dealing with remains that have been exposed to water or fire.

In this 25-minute program, a forensic anthropologist, medical examiner, and other police experts use facial reconstruction and other forensic techniques to identify human remains and determine cause of death.

Segments 1-4 of this film looks at how human bodies are being used to aid the science of forensic anthropology, such as research on determining the post-mortem interval.