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No Tags Selected 100 Incredible Anthropology Lectures Online | Best Colleges Online
If you’ve been inspired by an anthropology course to learn more about the subject, there are a wide range of free materials out there that can can help you to do so. Here are 100 anthropology lectures that will help you learn more about human culture, history and our nearest relatives in the animal kingdom.
AAA (American Anthropological Association) Publication Style Guide
AAA uses The Chicago Manual of Style (15th edition, 2003) and Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary (11th edition, 2006). This guide is an outline of style rules basic to our journal editing. Where no rule is present in this guide, follow Chicago. In Webster’s, use the first spelling if there is a choice and use American (rather than British) spellings. This guide does not apply to newsletters, which deviate frequently from these guidelines in the interest of space and tend to follow many Associated Press style rules.
Types of opportunities included on the Bulletin Board: Awards and prizes, AAA Annual Meeting, Grants and fellowships (student funding), Field schools, Calls for papers (meetings and publications), Collaboration opportunities, Meeting announcements, General announcements, Suggest a new category
Anthropologists work in many parts of the world in close personal association with the peoples and situations they study. Their professional situation is, therefore, uniquely varied and complex. They are involved with their discipline, their colleagues, their students, their sponsors, their subjects, their own and host governments, the particular individuals and groups with whom they do their fieldwork, other populations and interest groups in the nations within which they work, and the study of processes and issues affecting general human welfare. In a field of such complex involvements, misunderstandings, conflicts, and the necessity to make choices among conflicting values are bound to arise and to generate ethical dilemmas. It is a prime responsibility of anthropologists to anticipate these and to plan to resolve them in such a way as to do damage neither to those whom they study nor, insofar as possible, to their scholarly community.
This collection of African-American newspapers contains information about the cultural life and history during the 1800s, including first-hand reports of the major events and issues of the day, such as the Mexican War, Presidential and congressional addresses, congressional abstracts, business and commodity markets, the humanities, world travel, and religion. The database also contain large numbers of early biographies, vital statistics, essays and editorials, poetry and prose, and advertisements all of which embody the African-American experience.
AccessUN provides access to current and retrospective United Nations documents and publications. Articles appearing in UN periodicals are individually indexed. Indexing of the bilateral and multilateral treaties in the UN Treaty Series is another unique feature of the Index. The Index benefits researchers who need information on international problems of an economic, social, cultural, or humanitarian nature. Peace and security, world hunger, human rights, economic development, the environment, and atomic energy are among the issues addressed by the United Nations.
The American Ethnological Society is the oldest professional anthropological organization in the United States. Founded in 1842 to encourage research in the emerging field of ethnology, its stated goal was to foster "inquiries generally connected with the human race." Today the AES, a section of the American Anthropological Association (AAA), is a thriving group of nearly 4,000 anthropologists who organize an annual meeting, publish the journal American Ethnologist, and carry on a variety of activities to promote scholarship on "ethnology in the broader sense of the term."
AfriGadget is a website dedicated to showcasing African ingenuity. A team of bloggers and readers contribute their pictures, videos and stories from around the continent. The stories of innovation are inspiring. It is a testament to Africans bending the little they have to their will, using creativity to overcome life’s challenges.
Alaska Native Knowledge Network
The Alaska Native Knowledge Network (ANKN) is an AKRSI partner designed to serve as a resource for compiling and exchanging information related to Alaska Native knowledge systems and ways of knowing. It has been established to assist Native people, government agencies, educators and the general public in gaining access to the knowledge base that Alaska Natives have acquired through cumulative experience over millennia.
America: History and Life (AHL) includes abstracting and indexing of the full range of U.S. and Canadian history, area studies, and current affairs literature. AHL includes coverage of history, interdisciplinary studies of historical interest, and history-related topics in the social sciences and humanities. AHL abstracts articles selected from approximately 2,100 international journals in the social sciences and humanities, including local, state, and special-interest journals. AHL also cites book, film, and video reviews from 142 scholarly journals, and dissertations from Dissertation Abstracts International.
American Anthropological Association - Grants, Fellowships & Support Listings
A listing of grants, fellowships and other support for anthropologists.
American Anthropological Association Blog
The American Anthropological Association (AAA) has created this blog as a service to our members and the general public. It is a forum to discuss topics of debate in anthropology and a space for public commentary on association policies, publications and advocacy issues. We will post select items that we think are of interest to our members or that you, the reader, have voiced an interest in. We invite you to use this domain to spur intellectual discussion and critique that is grounded in anthropological and other scientific research. Please feel free to contact us with any suggestions, queries or potential contributions you might have.
American FactFinder (1990 and 2000 Census of Population and Housing)
Includes the 1990 and 2000 Census of Population and Housing
American Museum of Natural History: Anthropology Division
The Division of Anthropology is dedicated to the study of human culture and biology. It was established in 1873, only four years after the founding of the museum. One of the Anthropology Division's most important missions is the preservation of, and access to, the archaeological, ethnological, and physical anthropology collections, assembled from around the world by Museum personnel from the time the Museum's founding to the present day. The collections include more than 500,000 objects from cultures in the Americas, Africa, Asia, and the Greater North Pacific region. They are irreplaceable cultural documents that provide a window into the lives of the people who produced them, and they are resources to be used again and again as new questions are asked about the human experience.
Andaman Association, Lonely Islands - The Andamanese
This Web-site tries to limit itself (if "limit" is quite the right word for our cheerfully open-ended approach) to the time between 100,000 to 10,000 years ago.This period is also known as the Late Pleistocene or Ice Age. We have permitted ourselves stray exursions beyond the self-imposed time limits, provided they are relevant to our subject. Within those limits, our four major areas of interest are: 1. Andamanese Negrito people 2. Other Asian Negrito people (the Thai, Malaysian and Philippine Negritos as well as some Sri Lankan, Indian and Southeast Asian Negrito-like tribes 3. Ancient tribal people world-wide: we are interested in people anywhere in the world that may be as ancient as the Negrito are suspected to be. Such people are the Veddoid in Asia, the Khoisan and the Pygmies in Africa, the Australian aborigines, the Tasmanians, the Papuans, the Melanesians, the Austronesians, the Fuegians as well as some other populations, extinct and living.
An review of the trends and literature in Anthropology each year. Founded in 1932, Annual Reviews provides researchers, professors, and scientific professionals with a definitive academic resource in 37 scientific disciplines. Annual Reviews saves you time by synthesizing the vast amount of primary research literature and identifying the principal contributions in your field. Editorial committees comprised of the most distinguished scholars in the discipline select all topics for review, and the articles are written by authors who are recognized experts in the field. Annual Reviews publications are among the highest cited publications by impact factor according to the Institute for Scientific Information® (ISI).
Since 1932, Annual Reviews has offered comprehensive, timely collections of critical reviews written by leading scientists. Annual Reviews volumes are published each year for 32 focused disciplines within the Biomedical, Physical, and Social Sciences. Annual Reviews is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide the worldwide scientific community with a useful and intelligent synthesis of the primary research literature for a broad spectrum of scientific disciplines. Annual Reviews publications are among the most highly cited in scientific literature as indexed by the Institute for Scientific Information's Journal Citation Report. Each year, Annual Reviews critically reviews the most significant primary research literature to guide you to the principal contributions of the field and help you keep up to date in your area of research.
While beginning as a place for stories of my adventures in the grad program, this blog has since become a central site for discussion around my thesis research. The discussions on this blog work to inform questions I’m investigating – specifically about changes in anthropology occuring online with the open access movement and the blogsphere. It is also about working on ways to engage an online community in an ethnographic fashion. Its’ success depends on the generosity of collaborators of all kinds. Please feel free to share your thoughts and opinions, and remember you always have the option of responding anonymously.
Anthro Goggles — Business and Web 2.0 through anthropology lenses
This blog contains anthropologically-flavored discussions on business, Web 2.0, Enterprise 2.0 and popular culture. Why this blog? Because I believe that a social science perspective is valuable, and that businesses need more of it. Companies are looking for: * deeper insights into their global customer base * better ways to manage their diverse employees * effective design approaches to create compelling products All these issues can benefit from social science perspectives, models and tools. I am not a Professional Card-Carrying Anthropologist. I’m a businessperson with a sideline interest in anthro.
Anthro-l is a general anthropology mailing list.
The mailing list for the Society for Anthropological Sciences.
I was born in Ireland, but at four years old went to live in Luxembourg. My mother worked with the European Commission and thanks to the European School system, I became a ‘true’ European. I got my first degree (Sociology) in the University of Glasgow. After that I spent five years in Belgium doing various jobs in telemarketing, customer service and sales: I didn’t like them very much. After that I saw the light and managed to do a Masters in Social Anthropology of Development with SOAS in London. That was where I met my wife-to-be - referred to in these pages as WW (Wonderful Wife, Wonder Womyn, or Whipping Witch – depending on circumstances). After six months in Nigeria she suggested I come to Malaysia. I was able to find a lecturing job with HELP University College, and we eventually got married I am now a PhD candidate at Monash University Malaysia, researching the commercialisation of Malaysian blogs.
The Anthropological Index to Current Periodicals in the Museum of Mankind Library (incorporating the former Royal Anthropological Institute library). Includes citations to materials on cultural and social anthropology, archaeology, material culture, biological and physical anthropology, medical anthropology, etc. Although administered by the Royal Anthropological Institute, this database provides a wealth of citations for North American anthropology and archaeology.
Anthropological Theory at the EMuseum @ Minnesota State University Mankato
Introductory information on the basic theories in Anthropology.
Anthropology and the Environment Section of the American Anthropological Association
Welcome to the home page of anthropologists interested in ecology, the environment, and environmentalism. We are part of the American Anthropological Association, the professional society of American anthropologists. We welcome members from countries worldwide.
Anthropology Biographies at the EMuseum @ Minnesota State University Mankato
This biography web has been developed by the anthropology students at Minnesota State University, Mankato as a part of our EMuseum. We strive to produce brief descriptions of anthropologists and other scientists that have direct influence on the discipline of anthropology. This is by no means a comprehensive list, but we are continuing to add and it grows each semester. Feel free to suggest names in our comment section (use the 'Help' button) for any future people you would like to see included. We presently have biographies on 845 people who have influenced anthropology in some way. We are adding new ones all the time.
Anthropology.net’s mission is to create a cohesive online community of individuals interested in anthropology. This website intends to promote and facilitate discussion, review research, extend stewardship of resources, and disseminate knowledge. To serve the public interest, we seek the widest possible engagement with all segments of society, including professionals, students, and anyone who is interested in advancing knowledge and enhancing awareness of anthropology.
AnthroSource is an online resource serving the research, teaching, and professional needs of anthropologists. Developed by the American Anthropological Association (AAA), AnthroSource brings 100 years of anthropological material online to scholars and the public. Which includes, current issues for 15 of the AAA's most critical peer-reviewed publications through the end of 2006, including American Anthropologist, American Ethnologist, Anthropology and Education Quarterly, and Medical Anthropology Quarterly. As well as, an electronic archive of all AAA journals and seamless access to archival content housed at JSTOR for key AAA publications including American Anthropologist (for AAA members and subscribing institutions).
antropologi.info - anthropology in the news blog
social and cultural anthropology in the news
APA Formatting and Style Guide: Reference List: Electronic Sources - The OWL at Purdue
This resource was written by David Neyhart and Erin Karper. Additional material by Kristen Seas & Tony Russell.. Last full revision by Jodi Wagner, Elena Lawrick, Elizabeth Angeli, Kristen Moore, and Michael Anderson. Last edited by Allen Brizee on September 8th 2009 at 2:55PM
Arctic Science and Technology Information System
The Arctic Science and Technology Information System (ASTIS) database contains 66,000 records describing publications and research projects about northern Canada. ASTIS, a project of the Arctic Institute of North America at the University of Calgary, also maintains subset databases about specific regions, subjects and projects.
ARD - Anthropology Review Database
The Anthropology Review Database is intended to improve the level of access of anthropologists to anthropological literature by making them more aware of what is being published and helping them to evaluate its relevance to their own interests. Unlike the more traditional print journals, ARD is not constrained by production deadlines and has few running costs. We can keep abreast of the production of new materials, and do so in a much more timely fashion than the traditional media. Envision an almost continous flow of information from publisher to reader, by way of this database.
Aromatic and Medicinal Plants Abstracts
Including the CAB Abstracts and CAB Health, this is the leading database for literature related to agriculture and applied life sciences, including strong international coverage.
Art Abstracts (H.W. Wilson) provides comprehensive indexing and abstracts for 378 leading international art publications, including periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins. This database covers a broad range of art and design topics such as advertising, archaeology, crafts, folk art, graphic arts, interior design, landscape architecture, video, film, architecture and art history. Coverage for this database spans from 1984 to the present.
This blog has been set up by the Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and Commonwealth (more easily known as the ASA) to further discussion on all aspects of anthropology. There will be a guest blogger each month who will post articles to get discussions going. If you are interested to be a guest blogger please contact admin(at)theasa.org. The ASA was founded in 1946 to promote the study and teaching of social anthropology, to present the interests of social anthropology and to maintain its professional status. Its aim is to assist in any way possible in planning research, to collate and publish information on social anthropology and to function as a register of social anthropologists.
Association for Africanist Anthropology (AfAA)
The purpose of the Association for Africanist Anthropology (AFAA) shall be to stimulate, strengthen, and advance anthropology by promoting the study of Africa, as well as Africanist scholarship and the professional interests of Africanist anthropologists in the U.S., and both in and outside of the African Continent.
Association for Feminist Anthropology
Phoenix, 1988: The meeting room was filled to capacity, mostly women, a few men, many of whose names were associated with the first published efforts to bring, in the beginning, an "anthropology of women" and later a feminist and gendered anthropology to the discipline. These anthropologists, their students, and others like-minded, under the leadership of the AFA's first Chair, Carole Hill, gave a unanimous vote to the establishment of the Association for Feminist Anthropology. The first few years of the AFA saw the establishment of several central themes that continue to form the core of members' interests. The late Sylvia Forman, a founding member of AFA, came up with the idea of "Working Commissions" as a way to organize and link feminist academic and policy work.
Association for Feminist Anthropology ListServ
Welcome to the mailing list for the Association for Feminist Anthropologists. This mailing list is for announcements and discussion relevant to the AFA. This list is hosted at the University of California at Berkeley and is administered by an anthropology graduate student, Colleen Morgan, who can be reached at clmorgan@berkeley.edu for any questions not covered by this FAQ. For more about the Mailman mailing list software that this list employs, go to http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/index.html.
Association for Political and Legal Anthropology
The Association for Political and Legal Anthropology (APLA) is a section of the American Anthropological Association (AAA). Its members share interests in issues of contemporary importance in the fields of political and legal anthropology, including nationalism, citizenship, political and legal processes, the state, civil society, colonialism and post-colonial public spheres, multiculturalism, globalism, immigration, refugees, and media politics.
Association of Black Anthropologists
The Association of Black Anthropologists (ABA) was founded in 1977. ABA publishes the journal Transforming Anthropology and currently has two projects: The Vera Green Publication Award and the Gwaltney Scholarship Fund.
Association of Latina and Latino Anthropologists
The goals of ALLA are to promote research and distribute information on Latinos in the United States. It will stimulate dialogue in academic and other circles about Latino community objectives and realities encouraging respect for indigenous and insider views, encouraging the participation of community leaders, non-academic anthropologists and others, and in the process, provide information to the public about these objectives, and form affiliations and coalition with other professional groups with similar interests.
AUC DAR Repository (Digital Archive and Research Repository)
The AUC Digital Archive and Research (DAR) Repository represents a trusted "home" for storage, preservation, and access to the digital materials created by or for the AUC community. It provides a place for AUC faculty and students to display their academic work and gain much deserved recognition for their scholarly contributions. By consolidating and standardizing digital collection efforts, it promotes more efficient administrative functions across campus, and enables long-term preservation of digital materials in a reliable and sustainable environment. Finally, adds value to digital materials by facilitating the creation of organized collections featuring accurate descriptions for users.
The Biography Resource Center is a comprehensive database of biographical information on more than 185,000 people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas. It contains approximately 250,000 biographies and full-text articles from nearly 250 periodicals. Search for people based on one or more personal facts such as birth and death years and places, nationality, ethnicity, occupation or gender, or combine criteria to create a highly-targeted custom search path.
Bradshaw Foundation - Rock Art Cave Paintings Archaeology Anthropology
The Bradshaw Foundation provides an online learning resource. Its main areas of focus are archaeology, anthropology and genetic research, and its primary objective is to discover, document and preserve ancient rock art around the world, and promote the study of early mankind’s artistic achievements. The Foundation funds preservation projects around the world, scientific research and research publication. The Foundation carries out its work in collaboration with UNESCO, the Royal Geographic Society, the National Geographic Society, the Rock Art Research Institute in South Africa and the Trust for African Rock Art to ensure that the programs achieve maximum impact. It is a privately funded, non-profit organisation based in Geneva.
British Library: Archival Sound Recordings
Everyone can: Search all recordings on the site, Listen to recordings where copyright permits - currently over 23,700 items, View notes and tags added by other users. Archival Sound Recordings is the result of a development project to increase access to the British Library Sound Archive's extensive collections. The British Library holds one of the world’s foremost sound archives with a collection of over 3.5 million audio recordings. These come from all over the world and cover the entire range of recorded sound from music, drama and literature, to oral history, wildlife and environmental sounds. This website delivers a selection of that rich audio heritage in the form of tens of thousands of digitised recordings and their associated documentation. If you were to listen to all the recordings on this site for eight hours each day, every day, it would take you around four years to hear them all!
California Academy of the Sciences - Anthropology Collections
The permanent research collection of the Department of Anthropology comprises approximately 16,000 objects, most of which are ethnographic. The Department actively collects material of the indigenous cultures of western North America (exclusive of Mexico) and of the Pacific Rim, including all Pacific islands and East Asia. Current strengths of the collection are holdings from the U.S. Southwest and the Pacific Islands, and basketry from California. Earlier years of collecting have yielded both ethnographic and archaeological materials from East Africa, the Middle East, Europe, and Central and South America.
Welcome to Cambridge Journals Online (CJO), providing full text for over one hundred journals in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities.
Canadian Museum of Civilization
The Corporation's primary responsibilities are the management of Canada's national museum of human history, the Canadian Museum of Civilization (CMC), Canada's national museum of military heritage, the Canadian War Museum (CWM), and a virtual museum on the Web, the Museum of New France (VMNF). The Canadian Museum of Civilization is recognized as one of the premier cultural facilities of the twentieth century, and is home to the Canadian Postal Museum, the Canadian Children's Museum, and an IMAX® theatre. It houses more than 3.75 million artifacts spanning the disciplines of history, archaeology, folk culture, ethnology, postal communications and various other areas of heritage study. Formed in 1880 around a local collection of Canadian Militia battlefield mementoes, the Canadian War Museum has since become Canada's national museum of military history. On May 8, 2005 the Museum reopened in a stunning new building on LeBreton Flats.
Caribbean Amerindian Centrelink: Indigenous Peoples of the Caribbean
Information on Indigenous Peoples of the Caribbean From the Guyanas to Central America, From the Antilles to North America The Caribbean Amerindian Centrelink was first established in September of 1998 by Maximilian C. Forte, and published from the borough of Arima on the island of Trinidad that is part of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. By March of 1999, an international editorial board was formed. At one time or another, CAC editors have been based in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the USA, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Guyana, and France.
Carnegie Museum of Natural History
"Carnegie Museum of Natural History conducts scientific inquiry, generates knowledge, and promotes stewardship of the Earth. Through public engagement, we share the joy of discovery about the processes that shape the diversity of our world and its inhabitants." Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh In 1895, Pittsburgh industrialist Andrew Carnegie established Carnegie Institute to help people improve their lives through educational and cultural experiences. His founding ideals are now embodied in a collective of four distinctive museums: Carnegie Museum of Art, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Carnegie Science Center, and The Andy Warhol Museum. These four institutions comprise Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh.
Catalog of U.S. Government Publications
The Catalog is a search and retrieval service that provides bibliographic records of U.S. Government information products. Use it to link to Federal agency online resources or identify materials distributed to Federal Depository Libraries. Coverage begins with January 1994 and new records are added daily. New Electronic Titles contains online titles that are the latest entries in the Catalog or are in the queue to be added to it.
Census of Agriculture 1992/1997/2002
Provides data on number of farms, land in farms, land use, irrigation, crops, livestock, poultry, value of farm products sold, hired farm labor, injuries and deaths, direct sales for human consumption, production expenses, and operator characteristics. The CD-ROM version of the study of the United States' production agriculture taken every five years at the national, state and county level.
Chan Chan Revive! {Non-English}
Chan Chan is a cultural symbol of Peru, which links the past with the present and play crucial role in human development in the region and country. Conservation and presentation contribute to the integral value of the monument and its context, and to strengthening the cultural identity of the Peruvian community. The site management is characterized by the implementation of planned activities, harmonious and sustainable balance between research and conservation, the use of social and human development, and involves the commitment of public and private sectors in such actions to ensure future Complex.
Chicago Manual of Style Citation Guide - Ohio State University Libraries
This guide is based on the The Chicago Manual of Style 15th ed. rev. (University of Chicago Press, 2003). Examples are shown for both the Author-Date style of citation recommended for natural sciences and social sciences, as well as the Notes-Bibliography style used for fine arts, history, literature, etc.
Cleveland Museum of Natural History
The mission statement for The Cleveland Museum of Natural History: To inspire, through science and education, a passion for nature, the protection of natural diversity, the fostering of health, and leadership to a sustainable future.
The International Cognition & Culture Institute is an initiative of the Department of Anthropology of the London School of Economics and Political Science made possible by an initial grant from the LSE and support from the Institut Jean Nicod (ENS, EHESS, CNRS) in Paris. (Further support from other scholarly institutions and foundations would be very welcome!)
Computer-Mediated Anthropology
Computer-Mediated Anthropology examines the intersections between anthropology and computing. These intersections include: · Finding a school · Pedagogy · Theory · Research · Scholarly Communication · Publishing
Florence Chee is a PhD Candidate in the School of Communication and Researcher at the Centre for Policy Research on Science and Technology (CPROST) and the Applied Communication and Technology (ACT) Lab at Simon Fraser University Vancouver, Canada. Her research interests focus on the ethnographic investigation of how users define themselves socially amidst their technologies and lived realities. Her field research looks at enabling factors of online game play such as culture, social structure, infrastructure, and policy factors in gaming hotbeds like Korea. Florence's long-term goal is to make technology relevant to the specifics of local cultures on a global level. She is currently completing her dissertation, having conducted her doctoral fieldwork in Korea. The research was supported by a Korean Government Research Scholarship from the National Institute for International Education (NIIED) and a Graduate International Scholarship from the Dean of Graduate Studies at SFU.
Dina is a founder and Managing Director of Mosoci India. With a Master’s Degree in Sociology and a background in anthropology and psychology, she has spent twenty years specializing in qualitative research and ethnography. She is at the forefront of technology trend research in India and works with a global portfolio of companies; including learning journeys, and immersions for innovation teams. Dina brings her unique perspective to understanding the emerging social aspects of new technology and the impact of new media on youth and mobility. Dina is a heavy user and observer of how people are interacting with digital tools and social media, and the impact it has on their lives and identities - she’s likes to call herself a “netnographer” and believes that the best way to learn is by doing and experiencing through auto-ethnography!
Council on Education and Anthropology
The Council on Anthropology and Education (CAE) is a section of the American Anthropological Association that was founded in 1968 to advance and stimulate scholarship on schooling in social and cultural contexts and on human learning both inside and outside of schools. CAE members receive the quarterly journal, Anthropology and Education Quarterly.
Provides data on counties, cities of 5000 or more, and towns and places of over 2500, including extensive data from the 1990 Census. Coverage includes land area, population, households, vital statistics, labor force, education, crime, and for cities, form of government.
The Ethnographics Gallery is a publication of the Centre for Social Anthropology and Computing. This site contains reports on CSAC research, Teaching materials, and Resources that can be used for planning and executing research, including bibliographic materials, databases of ethnographic material, fieldnotes, descriptors, and software for working with ethnographic data. Suggestions always welcome, but we have no funding stream for this website. It contains materials created since 1986, and many of them are rather unfashionable by today's standards. We do, however, want everything to work! mail suggestions to csac@kent.ac.uk
Cultural Anthropology Tutorials Menu
Lessons on various topics in cultural anthropology. Includes glossaries, practice quizzes, and lists of related links.
Cultural Survival | Promoting the Rights, Voices, and Visions of Indigenous Peoples
Why Cultural Survival? Before the day is over, an indigenous person will be killed or displaced, simply because he or she has different culture. Before the month is over, an indigenous homeland will be clear-cut, strip-mined, or flooded by a dam. Before the year is over, dozens of indigenous languages will disappear forever, taking with them unique worldviews and a priceless piece of human diversity. We work to stop this cultural devastation. We partner with indigenous communities to protect their lands, languages, and cultures. Through our programs and campaigns we help them get the knowledge, advocacy tools, and strategic partnerships they need to protect their rights. In addition, Cultural Survival offers the most comprehensive source of information on indigenous peoples on the planet, including our award-winning magazine, the Cultural Survival Quarterly, which has been published for more than 30 years.
Current and former students and staff of the Department of Anthropology at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, write about the emergent trends in anthropology. In particular we are interested in discussing the ways in which the methods and insights of anthropology are being 'applied' in various settings, both within and beyond the academy.
Dangerous Citizens: The Greek Left and the Terror of the State
Dangerous Citizens Online tells the stories and history of Greek dissidents who were detained and tortured between 1929 and 1974. The site is a web adaptation of the print book, Dangerous Citizens: The Greek Left and the Terror of the State, by Professor Neni Panourgiá. Combining interviews, archival material, unpublished personal accounts, and memoir, Dangerous Citizens is an anthropological work (online and in print) with many layers of narrative. One of these layers is parerga: alternate stories about the main narrative, or interpretations of events. In print, space constraints meant that only shorter parerga could be included within the text, and longer parerga were placed in an appendix. On Dangerous Citizens Online, there are no restraints—all of the stories can live side by side, as well as include a range of multimedia.
a Kansas State University working group led by Dr. Michael Wesch dedicated to exploring and extending the possibilities of digital ethnography.
Directory of Open Access Journals
The aim of the Directory of Open Access Journals is to increase the visibility and ease of use of open access scientific and scholarly journals thereby promoting their increased usage and impact. The Directory aims to be comprehensive and cover all open access scientific and scholarly journals that use a quality control system to guarantee the content. In short, a one stop shop for users to Open Access Journals.
Contains citations to 1.2 million dissertations and masters theses. Coverage begins in 1861, with abstracts available since 1980, and thesis abstracts since 1988.
Documentary Educational Resources
Documentary Educational Resources is a non-profit organization founded in 1968 and incorporated in 1971 for the purpose of producing and distributing cross-cultural documentary film for educational use. We were early innovators in developing 16mm film and media based curriculum for classroom use. Our company focus then and now is to support filmmakers who have long-term commitments to the people that they film. We find that filmmakers who work collaboratively with their subjects produce film with integrity. It is also our focus to distribute media that has the power to overcome barriers to cross-cultural understanding. Media can be the first step in growing sensitivity and awareness of other cultures. This in turn may lead to tolerance and acceptance and eventually give way to appreciation and admiration of other cultures.
Eanth-l is a listserv “mailing list” dedicated to the scholarly discussion of anything pertaining to the field of ecological/environmental anthropology. The list is sponsored by the Anthropology and Environment Section of the American Anthropological Association, and is hosted by the University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA. The list is open to anyone with an interest in ecological/environmental anthropology. News, conference announcements, calls for papers, discussion of research and theory, and other related topics are encouraged. We welcome contributions from anthropologists (avocational or professional), students, and from our colleagues in other fields.
Earthwatch Institute - Research Support
Earthwatch is one of the largest private funders of scientific field research. Each year, we support as many as 100 field research projects with grants, and provide as many as 3,500 volunteer field assistants to scientists conducting research around the world. Earthwatch support not only provides scientists with valuable people-hours of data collection, it also helps scientists communicate the importance of their work to motivated volunteers who in turn share their experiences with friends and family. Currently supported projects include everything from measuring the release of greenhouse gasses in the Arctic to preserving the ancient culture of Fijian seafarers to studying the crocodiles of the Zambezi River, and range across ecosystems as diverse as Brazil's Pantanal, the Greek Mediterranean, and the Mongolian steppe.
EASA Media Anthropology Network
The Media Anthropology Network, European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA), aims to foster international discussion and collaboration around the anthropology of media. The network also hopes to contribute to the theoretical and empirical development of this anthropological subfield.
The mailing list for the Society for East Asian Anthropology
eHRAF Collection of Ethnography
eHRAF World Cultures is a cross-cultural database that contains information on all aspects of cultural and social life. The annually-growing eHRAF database is unique in that the information is organized into cultures and ethnic groups and the full-text sources are subject-indexed at the paragraph level. eHRAF is produced by the Human Relations Area Files, Inc. (HRAF) at Yale University. The mission of HRAF, a non-profit consortium of universities and colleges, is to encourage and facilitate worldwide and other comparative studies of human behavior, society, and culture
Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Library
Online versions of various theses and dissertations from LSU graduate students.
EMuseum @ Minnesota State University Mankato
The EMuseum at Minnesota State University, Mankato is a completely virtual museum: we have no material collections but instead create and post exhibits and information via our webpage on the Internet. The EMuseum is affiliated with the Anthropology Department at Minnesota State University, Mankato and receives financial and other support from the Department, the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, the University, and several private individuals. We are a student-run organization with professional oversight.
Encyclopedia Mythica: mythology, folklore, and religion.
Please enter the award-winning internet encyclopedia of mythology, folklore, and religion. Here you will find everything from A-gskw to Zveda Vechanyaya, with plenty in between. The mythology section is divided to six geographical regions: Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe, Middle East, and Oceania. Each region has many clearly defined subdivisions that will ease your search. The Folklore section contains general folklore, Arthurian legends, and fascinating folktales from many lands. In addition, we feature special interest areas to enhance and refine your research. A Bestiary, legendary heroes, an image gallery, and genealogical tables of various pantheons and prominent houses. To bring our entities to life, we have created an image gallery, where you will find hundreds of images of all kinds of deities, heroes, and strange creatures of every description. The encyclopedia will serve the serious researcher, the student, and the casual reader with equal success.
Environmental Issues and Policy Index
The Environmental Issues & Policy Index database offers deep coverage in applicable areas of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, natural resources, marine & freshwater science, geography, pollution & waste management, environmental technology, environmental law, public policy, social impacts, urban planning, and more. Environmental Issues & Policy Index offers cover-to-cover indexing and detailed abstracts for well over 1,000 international journals, with ongoing coverage for over 500 titles, providing a global perspective on important issues. The database features an in-depth thesaurus, and extensive subject area coverage ranging as far back as 1950.
An electronic publishing project for the study of the history and culture of the ancient Near East. ETANA (Electronic Texts and Ancient Near Eastern Archives) has digitized, and continues to digitize, texts selected as valuable for teaching and research relating to ancient Near Eastern studies. We have selected primarily editions that are outside of copyright, or with the permission of copyright holders.
We have growing list of contributors at this stop on the anthropology trail. Our current contributors are:Cynthia Van Gilder, Donna Lanclos, Tony Waters, Mark Dawson, Jennifer Jones. One feature of this blog is the Ordinary people Project. The Ordinary People Project seeks to turn the idea of celebrity on its head by sending celebrities photos autographed by the people randomly met and interviewed by Mark Dawson on the road from Florida to Alaska and back again. Edited video about the people and towns along the way, as well as the photos autographed to Mark can be found on the facebook group “The Ordinary People Project” and on www.ethnography.com under The Ordinary People Project Link.
This ethnographic project explores the quotidian experiences and skilled practices of residents, travellers and commercial drivers on the Accra-Kumasi Road (AKR) in southern Ghana.
Florida Museum of Natural History
The Florida Museum of Natural History is Florida's state museum of natural history, dedicated to understanding, preserving and interpreting biological diversity and cultural heritage.
Folklife Sourcebook: A Directory of Folklife Resources in the United States
The information contained in the Folklife Sourcebook reflects the broad reach of professional folklore and folklife networks and the many allied pursuits and activities involving folklore and folklife studies and programming in the arts and social sciences, public programs, and educational institutions. Because folklife studies have been integrated into a variety of scholarly and public pursuits, the breadth and vitality of the field has sometimes been underestimated or misunderstood. A prominent objective of the first edition in 1986 (prepared by Peter Bartis and Barbara Fertig) was to demonstrate the extent of resources and programs available. Its continuing use by professionals, members of the public, and administrators in government, museums, educational programs and grant-making agencies suggest that it has contributed significantly to the increased public and scholarly participation in and awareness of programs, institutions, and activities linked to cultural conservation.
A nonprofit organization founded in 1928, The American Institute of Food Distribution (The Food Institute) has a single purpose: providing information. The Food Institute was founded by Seattle food broker Gordon C. Corbaley who decided to put out a semi-regular posting for his principals -- mainly canners -- and his customers, so they could keep better informed about what was going on in the marketplace. He called his postings The News From Oregon and Washington. The reports were welcomed by the trade as poor communication systems back in the Coolidge era resulted in a great deal of business being done by poorly informed (at times actually misinformed) buyers and sellers.
Four Stone Hearth - The Anthropology Blog Carnival
The Fourth Stone Hearth is a blog carnival that specializes in anthropology in the widest (American) sense of that word. Here, anthropology is the study of humankind, throughout all times and places, focussing primarily on four lines of research: archaeology socio-cultural anthropology bio-physical anthropology linguistic anthropology Each one of these subfields is a stone in our hearth. Four Stone Hearth is published bi-weekly, Wednesdays in odd-number weeks.
General Anthropology Division ListServ
This is the listserve for the General Anthropology Division of AAA.
GEOBASE is a unique bibliographic database covering worldwide research literature in physical and human geography, earth and environmental sciences, ecology, and related disciplines. In addition to providing comprehensive coverage of the core scientific and technical periodicals, Geobase has a unique coverage of non-English language and less readily available publications. Over 2,000 journals are fully covered with an additional 3,000 having partial coverage. Over 2,000 books, monographs, conference proceedings, and reports are also included.
Great Jobs for Anthropology Majors - Camenson, Blythe
GREAT JOBS SERIES ANSWERS THE QUESTION "WHAT CAN I DO WITH A MAJOR IN Every college major gives students valuable skills and training, perfect for a wide range of careers. The Great Jobs series helps students: Assess talents and skills for a job; Explore a wide range of career options; Target the perfect career; Present college majors as workplace assets; Perfect their job search; And much more!
I am an assistant professor in the Linguistics department at the University of California, Berkeley. My research focuses on Amazonian languages, and I am particularly interested in the strategic use of grammatical resources in interaction, language documentation and revitalization, and language politics. I have principally worked with speakers of Nanti (Arawak) and Iquito (Zaparoan), in Peruvian Amazonia.
GreenFILE indexes scholarly and general interest titles, as well as government documents and reports. This resource offers a unique perspective on the positive and negative ways humans affect the environment. Drawing on the connection between the environment and disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology, GreenFILE serves as an informative resource for anyone concerned about the issues facing our planet. The database contains nearly 300,000 records, full text for selected titles and searchable cited references for more than 200 titles as well.
Guide to Anthropological Fieldnotes and Manuscripts in Archival Repositories
This guide provides the location of more than 850 anthropological collections in non-Smithsonian archives. A complementary publication, Guide to the Collections of the National Anthropological Archives, describes an additional 640 collections in the Smithsonian's anthropological archives. Many anthropologists have donated their fieldnotes and professional papers to more than one archival repository; when the National Anthropological Archives is one of them, NAA appears in the entry. A directory of records of anthropological expeditions, field schools, conferences and associations follows the list of personal papers.
H-MedAnthro Discussion Network
This list addresses the needs and concerns of medical anthropology graduate students, practicing anthropologists, scholars, and scholar activists who address issues of local, national and international health importance. The list and its accompanying web sites form the hub of an active research community and a storehouse for information supporting the endeavors of medical anthropologists and their colleagues in allied social science fields.
Handbook of Latin American Studies
Provides a bibliography on Latin America consisting of works selected and annotated by scholars. Edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress, the multidisciplinary Handbook alternates annually between the social sciences and the humanities. Each year, more than 130 academics from around the world choose over 5,000 works for inclusion.
Hanging Around On The Wrong Side Of The World (still)
This blog is the equivalent of a pub conversation with friends scattered over the world, that first started out here. It should only ever be taken as seriously as any other pub conversation (ie, not at all). Expect no solutions, no suggestions, no serious political analysis. Only semi-articulated rants, half-arsed observations and occasional self-contradiction.
History of Medicine: Online Syllabus Archive
The National Library of Medicine's online syllabus archive collects college and university syllabi in the history of medicine, public health, the biomedical sciences, nursing, and related areas. It aims to offer a selection of current approaches to teaching in these subjects, from prehistory to the present, and in all parts of the globe. The archive is intended both as a historical record of teaching in the history of medicine and as an online syllabus exchange for college and university educators. Educators are welcome to use this archive in developing their teaching, and we encourage you to send us any syllabi that you may devise using this collection.
The Human Rights Web Archive is an initiative by Columbia University Libraries and Information Services (CUL) and its Center for Human Rights Documentation & Research (CHRDR), with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, to select, preserve, and provide access to freely available internet resources, specifically addressing at-risk websites in the area of human rights. As expressed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, this concept includes such commonly recognized areas as freedom from torture, slavery, and arbitrary arrest, but also embraces social, cultural, and economic rights, freedom of movement and assembly, the right to work, and more.
In the First Person is a landmark index to English language personal narratives, including letters, diaries, memoirs, autobiographies, and oral histories. Working with archives, repositories, publishers, and individuals we've indexed first person narratives from hundreds of published volumes—those that are publicly available on the Web and those that are held by repositories and archives around the world.
Index to Social Sciences and Humanities Proceedings
Covers the most significant conference proceedings in the social sciences and humanities over the last five years.
Islam, Muslims, and an Anthropologist
My name is Gabriele and I am an anthropologist studying Muslim communities. This Blog starts from my professional, as well as personal interest, in understanding Muslim societies and, in more general terms, the challenges which we, as human beings, face in this new millennium.
www.isuma.tv is an internet video portal for indigenous filmmakers, with unique indigenous-language content available 24/7. Our goal is to help films and filmmakers reach a wider audience; help audiences see themselves in their own languages; help communities connect around common concerns; and help worldwide viewers see indigenous reality from its own point of view. Isuma.tv is a FREE service to filmmakers and viewers: a serious, professional, high-quality space to post your films on the internet, in a respectful user-friendly context. Isuma.tv is a neutral viewing service only, not a seller or distributor. Filmmakers own their films and upload whatever they want; viewers watch but can't download; to buy a DVD you're directed to the email or web address of the filmmakers or their distributors.
JSTOR is a not-for-profit organization established with the assistance of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. JSTOR consists of a reliable and comprehensive archive of important scholarly journal literature. Louisiana State University currently participates in the following JSTOR Collection(s): Arts & Sciences I Collection, Arts & Sciences Complement, Arts & Sciences II Collection, Arts & Sciences III Collection, Arts & Sciences IV Collection, Arts & Sciences V Collection, Ecology & Botany Collection, Health & General Sciences Collection.
Offers full-text online news, business, legal, legislative, and regulatory information, updated daily.
I am an Assistant Professor at Washington State University. I use this blog to keep myself writing. I blog about Australian Aboriginal politics, Indigenous issues, Indigenous new media, cultural politics, and other issues that come up.
LOUISiana Digital Library is Louisiana's doorway to the unique cultural and historical resources of Louisiana's libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural institutions.
Louisiana Museum of Natural History
In 1999, the sixteen natural history collections at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge were designated by the state legislature as the "Louisiana Museum of Natural History." Together, these collections hold a total of more than 2.8 million specimens, objects, and artifacts that document the rich natural history of our state. These collections are dispersed among six independently administered units on campus, and include the Anthropological and Ethnological Collections.
LSU Journalfind: Ethnology, Social and Cultural Anthropology E-Journals
These are the ethnology, social and cultural anthropology electronic journals available to LSU affiliated patrons or to patrons on site (Middleton Library).
LSU Journalfind: Anthropology E-Journals
These are all the electronic journals available to LSU affiliated patrons or to patrons on site (Middleton Library).
The Virtual Institute of Mambila Studies seeks to collate and connect the different research and researchers with an interest in the Mambila people of the Nigeria - Cameroon borderland and their neighbours; their languages and the area in which they live. We take a broad view of Mambila, including other groups speaking related languages such as Kwanja, Vute, Wawa, Nizaa, Njerep (3 speakers at last count!) Twendi (35 speakers), Tep, and others. Our research is primarily of an anthropological and linguistic nature; abstracts or full texts of papers are available at the site. The currently available work includes reports on Zeitlyn's research on kinship and language and his annotated version of Meek's early ethnological work in the region, and Connell's comparative linguistic research and work on tone realization in Mambila, as well as a full bibliography of anthropological, linguistic, and related research on Mambila.
Material World is an interactive, online hub for contemporary debates, discussion, thinking and research centred on material and visual culture. It is the brainchild of scholars working in the anthropology departments of University College London and New York University, but aims to create a new international community of academics, students, curators, artists and anyone else with particular interests in material and visual culture. We will use this digital framework to post exhibition, book and other reviews; discuss key topics; develop online reading groups and symposia; post links to images, objects and collections; highlight cutting edge research and fieldwork, conferences, meetings and other events; develop teaching resources and syllabi; and encourage student participation. In short we will start the posting but we want YOU to participate in making this a genuinely interactive and lively space
I am an anthropologist specialising in the study of media. Currently I am Senior Lecturer in Media at Sheffield Hallam University and a Fellow of the Digital Anthropology Programme, University College London (UCL). In May 2009 I taught media anthropology as a Visiting Professor at the University of Vienna. The aim of this blog is to put out in the public domain materials that I am already working with as part of my research activity under the broad theme of media anthropology. The idea is to keep colleagues, students and others informed of my work as well as to keep an online diary for my own personal use, e.g. as an easy way of tracking down notes that may otherwise have remained hidden in my personal records.
This site, established in 1994 at New York University School of Medicine, is dedicated to providing a resource for scholars, educators, students, patients, and others who are interested in the work of medical humanities. We define the term "medical humanities" broadly to include an interdisciplinary field of humanities (literature, philosophy, ethics, history and religion), social science (anthropology, cultural studies, psychology, sociology), and the arts (literature, theater, film, and visual arts) and their application to medical education and practice. The Literature, Arts, and Medicine Database holds annotations of works of literature, art, and film relevant to the illness experience, medical education and practice -- fiction; poetry; memoir, biography, autobiography; literary, cultural, and social criticism; visual art; film; drama. The annotations are written by an invited editorial board of scholars from all over North America.
Mesoweb is devoted to the ancient cultures of Mexico and adjacent Central America, including the Olmec, Zapotec, Mixtec, Teotihuacan, Toltec, Aztec and Maya (reserving the word Mayan for the language and the word Maya for the people and their culture). This is, of course a huge area for any one website to cover, and so we have chosen to specialize in the Maya and, more particularly, Maya history, viewing it through the lens of archaeology and the related disciplines and the written records left by the Maya themselves.
I am a cultural anthropologist who studies new media use, particularly among young people in Japan and the US. My research group at Keio University studies mobile technology use, and I recently completed a study with Peter Lyman and Michael Carter on a multi-year project on digital kids and informal learning, with support from the MacArthur Foundation. As part of this, I'm doing case studies of anime fandoms in Japan and the English-speaking online world. I edited a book for MIT Press with Daisuke Okabe and Misa Matsuda entitled, Personal, Portable, Pedestrian: Mobile Phones in Japanese Life., and my book on children's software, Engineering Play: A Cultural History of Children's Software is due out from MIT Press this fall, together with the book reporting on the digital youth project, Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out: Kids Living and Learning with New Media.
When I started this blog I had no idea that I would be trying for a career in writing. I still thought I wanted to be a college professor. I started this blog as a place where I could hash out the theories that I was grappling with in graduate school. I called it Mundane Ethnography for two reasons. First, because I find the most boring everyday aspects of life (like eating) to be the most fascinating. And second, because I what I write about on here cannot be likened at all to real ethnographic research. My “ethnography” is play play…it is just a critical eye, interrogating thought, and contemplative analysis on the every day life around me. Some days my thoughts are deeper than others.
Online supplement to museum anthropology, the journal of the council for museum anthropology, a section of the American Anthropological Association
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, NZ - Home
Since its opening in 1998, Te Papa has built a worldwide reputation for its fresh and bold approach to presenting a nation’s treasures and stories. In that time, over ten million people have come to enjoy this unique museum experience. Te Papa is a waharoa, a gateway, to an encounter with the essence of New Zealand’s land and people. Wonderful taonga (Māori cultural treasures), art, and objects are presented through fascinating stories, thought-provoking interpretations, and engaging interactives.
Keywords that describe my research interests are internet research, media studies, youth culture, discourse studies, ethnography, Nexus Analysis, interpersonal and nonverbal communication, Mediated Discourse Analysis, Membership Categorization Analysis, ICT and learning and Web 2.0.
National Association for the Practice of Anthropology (NAPA): Welcome
Founded in 1983, NAPA strives to promote the practice of anthropology, both within the discipline and among private and public organizations. NAPA continues to grow as anthropologists engaged in practice have developed broader professional opportunities both inside and outside the Academic realm.
National Association of Student Anthropologists ListServ
The NASA listserv is a way for NASA to email announcements of interest to our members. This is a moderated list. In other words, only pre-approved announcements will be mailed out to the listserve. Thus, this list will not have a lot of traffic. You don't have to be worried about a lot of junk emails being sent.
National Endowment for the Humanities
NEH is an independent grant-making agency of the United States government dedicated to supporting research, education, preservation, and public programs in the humanities.
National Endowment for the Humanities - Funded Projects Query Form
Using this form provides access to information about projects funded by NEH since 1980. Check one or more of the boxes and enter your search terms, then click the "Display Results" button. You may search for key words found in the titles or descriptions of NEH-funded grants. We have also included options to help you narrow your search; for example, you can search for grants made by particular NEH programs, or for grants in particular humanities disciplines.
National Museum of the American Indian
The National Museum of the American Indian is the sixteenth museum of the Smithsonian Institution. It is the first national museum dedicated to the preservation, study, and exhibition of the life, languages, literature, history, and arts of Native Americans. Established by an act of Congress in 1989, the museum works in collaboration with the Native peoples of the Western Hemisphere to protect and foster their cultures by reaffirming traditions and beliefs, encouraging contemporary artistic expression, and empowering the Indian voice.
National Museum of Scotland: Explore Scotland’s story. Then discover the world! Chambers Street, Edinburgh. National War Museum: Follow the story of Scotland’s military past at Edinburgh Castle. National Museum of Costume: Explore a century of elegance and style at Shambellie House, near Dumfries. National Museum of Rural Life: What was it like to live and work on a farm in the 1950s? Come and find out at Kittochside, East Kilbride! National Museum of Flight: Follow the story of flight from bi-planes to Concorde and enjoy the atmosphere at East Fortune Airfield, East Lothian. National Museums Collection Centre: Where else would you find a collection of 1.2 million insects, all under one roof?
My name is Olumide Abimbola. I am a Nigerian PhD candidate at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale, Germany. I have an MA in Development Studies from the Department of Government, Uppsala University, Sweden. My research is on informal trade between Nigeria and Republic of Bénin. Theoretically, I am interested in the Sociology of Association or Actor-Network Theory. I am also interested in New Institutional Economics and the ways institutions affect trade and economic behavior. There are of course others that I cannot think of at the moment. I will write about them as they arise. This blog is going to be about general anthropological issues that I find interesting. My interests, as they will appear on this page, may be more slanted towards theories.
NativeWiki is a free, open-to-the-public library of information about indigenous nations and peoples (past and present) of the world. We feature major sections on Nations and Peoples, Documents and Materials, Geographic Regions and a Picture Gallery of selected images. Begun in April, 2007, we currently have 1,309 content pages, 1,177 media files, and 2,286 registered contributors.
netLibrary is a collection of almost 40,000 reference, scholarly, and professional e-books (full text electronic books) from university and commercial presses, covering a variety of disciplines. LSU Libraries patrons may check these books out for four hours at a time. The full text of the e-books may be searched and downloaded or printed a page or two at a time.
Neuroanthropology is a collaborative weblog created to encourage exchanges among anthropology, philosophy, social theory, and the brain sciences. We especially hope to explore the implications of new findings in the neurosciences for our understanding of culture, human development, and behaviour. If you would like more information, please contact Greg Downey at Macquarie University gdowney (at) mq.edu.au (remove spaces).
New World Cultures at the EMuseum @ Minnesota State University Mankato
Introductory information on indigenous cultures of the Americas (New World).
Old World Cultures at the EMuseum @ Minnesota State University Mankato
Introductory information on cultures of the Old World (Europe, Middle East, Asia, Africa and Pacific).
Online Collections at Carnegie Museum of Natural History
This site provides access to data and images in the Museum collections. The online collections database is still under development, and at this time, only selected collections from the sections listed below are available online. As of September 2007, the number of available records was 871,828.
Online Dictionary of Anthropology - AnthroBase
AnthroBase is a multilingual, searchable database of articles, theses, essays, reports, conference papers, field-notes etc., written by anthropologists and others with an interest in social and cultural diversity. Authors retain copyright to their texts and may withdraw their texts from the database at any time.
Open Access Anthropology — Promoting Open Access in Anthropology
This is the blog for Open Access Anthropology, an organization of volunteers interested in creating open access alternatives to anthropological publications. This blog will be the news outlet for the organization where we will announce news like current events progress within the discipline.
If anthropology claimed the world for study by Europeans and Americans, OPEN ANTHROPOLOGY is (also) about “the world” reclaiming anthropological knowledge for its own self-understanding, self-expression, and self-identification.
The Oral History Association, established in 1966, seeks to bring together all persons interested in oral history as a way of collecting and interpreting human memories to foster knowledge and human dignity. With an international membership, the OHA serves a broad and diverse audience. Local historians, librarians and archivists, students, journalists, teachers, and academic scholars from many fields have found that the OHA provides both professional guidance and a collegial environment for sharing research.
Oriental Institute | The Dead Sea Scrolls and Other Hebrew MSS Project
The Dead Sea Scrolls Project was established by the Oriental Institute during the months that followed the freeing of the scrolls (autumn 1991). The project was originally staffed by Dr. Norman Golb, Professor of Jewish History and Civilization, Dr. Michael Wise, Assistant Professor of Aramaic, as well as by our graduate research assistant, Anthony Tomasino. From the beginning the project developed in several directions. First and foremost, there was the challenging task of deciphering and translating, from photographs, the manuscripts from Qumran Cave Four that had previously remained unpublished. Another aspect has been to explore the overall problem of identification of the authors of the scrolls and, increasingly, to examine the specifics of the Khirbet Qumran site and the theory that the manuscripts found in the nearby caves were composed by a sect ostensibly living there.
Oxford English Dictionary (OED)
Presenting a CD-ROM and an internet version of the second edition of the OED, which allows the searching of words, phrases, variants, phonetics, and Greek roots, with filters for date and part of speech.
The PAIS Archive database comprises a retrospective conversion of the PAIS Annual Cumulated Bulletin, Volumes 1-62, published 1915-1976. Currently available on the CSA Illumina platform is Part I of this conversion project, containing over 850,000 records covering the years 1937-1976. Part II of the Archive will be available by Fall 2005 and will include records covering the years 1915-1936. When complete, the PAIS Archive will contain over 1 million records. The PAIS Archive database contains references to monographs, periodical articles, notes and announcements, and analytics. The original historical subject headings have been retained in the file. The PAIS Archive provides historical perspective on many of the 20th century's public and social policies.
PAPER RESOURCE: Publication manual of the American Psychological Association
Call Number: BF76.7 .P83 2001 ||| Located in Middleton Reference ||| When editors or teachers ask you to write in APA Style, they are referring to the editorial style that many of the social and behavioral sciences have adopted to present written material in the field. APA Style was first developed 80 years ago by a group of social scientists who wished to establish sound standards of communication. Since that time, it has been adopted by leaders in many fields and has been used by writers around the world. APA's style rules and guidelines are set out in a reference book called The Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association.
PAPER RESOURCE: A history of anthropological theory - Erickson, Paul A. (2003)
Call Number: GN33 .E74 2003 ||| Located in Middleton Reference ||| Recognizing that anthropology--"the integrated study of humanity in its biological, social, and cultural dimensions--"has deep roots in the Western experience, this concise survey begins in antiquity, then moves forward through the Middle Ages and the Renaissance to the modern era. The authors focus on the twentieth century, covering American, British, and French anthropological traditions and discussing developments in theory that point to future directions in archaeology, physical anthropology, and linguistic anthropology.
Call Number: GN345 .H47 2001 ||| Located in Middleton Reference ||| Not a textbook in the ordinary sense, this work offers a vision of how anthropology - a discipline that operates through intimate knowledge of local societies - can offer vastly increased understanding of society and culture even in this age of mass communication. In its examination of topics ranging as far afield as the mass media, environmental and development issues, kinship and suffering in transnational settings, the politics of both the nation-state and the local community, the arts, cosmologies of science as well as religion, and the relationship between social life and history, this book is not just about an academic discipline; it is about the theoretical as well as ethical commitments that have enabled anthropologists to play a leading role in the critique of racism and other forms of intolerance.
PAPER RESOURCE: Argonauts of the Western Pacific - Malinowski, Bronislaw (1932)
Call Number: GN671 .N5 M3 1932 ||| Located in the Middleton Stacks ||| This classic ethnography examines the extensive and complex trading system maintained by the Trobriand Islanders. While the main theme is economics and social organization, the power of magic, mythology and folklore are also examined.
PAPER RESOURCE: Biographical dictionary of social and cultural anthropology - Amit, Vered (2004)
Call Number: GN20 .B56 2004 ||| Located in Middleton Reference ||| Spanning the period from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first centuries, The Biographical Dictionary of Social and Cultural Anthropology contains almost six hundred individually-signed entries from a global team of contributors and offers an important, and fascinating overview of the historical and contemporary reach of anthropological research.
PAPER RESOURCE: Chronology of world history - Mellersh, H. E. L. (1999)
Call Number: D11 .M39 1999 ||| Located in Middleton Reference ||| This four volume set, which includes 70,000 events compiled by 27 contributing editors, constitutes the most complete and current chronology of world history ever created.
PAPER RESOURCE: Coming of Age in Samoa - Mead, Margaret (1953 [1928])
Call Number: DU813 .M4 1953 ||| Located in the Middleton Stacks ||| Coming of Age in Samoa (1928) launched Mead's career as an anthropologist, which was reaffirmed with the 1930 publication of New Guinea. In both volumes she theorizes that culture is a leading influence on psychosexual development. She also surmises that the so-called civilized world could learn a lot from so-called primitives.
PAPER RESOURCE: Encyclopedia of Anthropology - Birx, H. James. (2006)
Call Number: GN11 .E53 2006 ||| Located in Middleton Reference ||| This five-volume Encyclopedia of Anthropology is a unique collection of over 1,000 entries that focuses on topics in physical/biological anthropology, archaeology, cultural/social anthropology, linguistics, and applied anthropology. Also included are relevant articles on geology, paleontology, biology, evolution, sociology, psychology, philosophy, and theology. The contributions are authored by 300 internationally renowned experts, professors, and scholars from some of the most distinguished universities, institutes, and museums in the world. Special attention is given to hominid evolution, primate behavior, genetics, ancient civilizations, cross-cultural studies, social theories, and the value of human language for symbolic communication.
PAPER RESOURCE: Encyclopedia of clothing and fashion - Steele, Valerie (2005)
Call Number: GT507 .E53 2005 ||| Located in Middleton Reference ||| From diapers to Dior, saris to serapes, the world of clothing is nearly as vast and as ancient as the human race. Tracing the stylistic and functional threads that unite clothing across time and cul-tures -- as well as delving into the divergent styles and significance of apparel -- this A to Z encyclopedia is the essential resource for exploring the relationship between culture and couture.
PAPER RESOURCE: Encyclopedia of cultural anthropology - Levinson, David (1996)
Call Number: ||| Located in Middleton Reference ||| A four-volume encyclopedia dedicated to representing the cross-cultural study of human behavior, culture, and society. Sponsored by Yale's Human Relations Area Files, 310 distinguished scholars provide two-to-10 page commentaries on subjects as varied as homelessness, gender differences, shamanism, and human evolution. The contributions endeavor to, at least, touch on methodology, perspectives, counter opinions, and the major figures in philosophy and anthropology, while also maintaining an international attitude. However, recognizing that encyclopedias are limited by nature, the authors offer bibliographies and cross referencing to direct students to more in-depth work.
PAPER RESOURCE: Encyclopedia of food and culture - Katz, Solomon H. (2003)
Call Number: GT2850 .E53 2003 ||| Located in Middleton Reference ||| This stunning source explores the nutritional and cultural impact of food, with articles written by anthropologists, chefs, food historians, nutritionists, agronomists, food stylists, and other food researches. The well-written and informative entries cover the history of regional cuisines, major festivals and feasts, and general subjects that examine the cultural, sociological, and psychological perspectives of food.
PAPER RESOURCE: Encyclopedia of prostitution and sex work - Ditmore, Melissa Hope. (2006)
Call Number: HQ115 .E53 2006 ||| Located in Middleton Reference ||| The cliche is that prostitution is the oldest profession. Isn't it time that the subject received a full reference treatment? This major 2-volume set is the first to treat in an inclusive reference what is usually considered a societal failing and the underside of sexuality and economic survival. The A-to-Z encyclopedia offers wide-ranging entries related to prostitution and the sex industry, past and present, both worldwide (mostly in the West) and in the United States.
PAPER RESOURCE: Encyclopedia of race and racism - Moore, John H. (2008)
Call Number: E184 .A1 E584 2008 V.1-3 ||| Located in Middleton Reference ||| The Encyclopedia of Race and Racism is the first such work examining the anthropological, sociological, historical, economic, and scientific theories of race and racism in the modern era. The set delves into the historic origins of ideas of race and racism and explores their social and scientific consequences. Some of the nearly 400 articles address broad theoretical topics that have helped to shape modern ideas about race and racism; others address more specific subjects in the larger fields. The set includes biographies of dozens of significant theorists, as well as political and social leaders and notorious racists. The Encyclopedia of Race and Racism also includes a carefully chosen selection of primary documents that enhance and reinforce the content of the articles.
PAPER RESOURCE: Encyclopedia of social and cultural anthropology - Barnard, Alan (1996)
Call Number: GN307 .E527 1996 ||| Located in Middleton Reference ||| Over 230 substantial entries on every major idea, individual and sub-discipline of social and cultural anthropology * over 100 international contributors * a glossary of more than 600 key terms and ideas.
PAPER RESOURCE: Encyclopedia of world cultures - Levinson, David (1991)
Call Number: GN307 .E53 1991 V.1-10 ||| Located in Middleton Reference ||| This 10-volume set lists and describes more than 1,500 global cultures. Based on research of social scientists, it is the source for historical, social, political, economic, linguistic, religious, and other information on virtually every existing culture. Its cross-cultural perspective meets high school curricular requirements for world studies and social sciences.
Call Number: GF50 .J65 2003 ||| Located in Middleton Reference ||| Arranged geographically, each entry focuses on the peoples of a particular country and the environmental issues they face, from the global warming and toxic chemicals threatening the Arctic Inuits, to the logging that is devastating indigenous habitats in Borneo. General entries overview such topics as climate change, dam sites, and Native American Concepts of Ecology. The 'Guide to Related Topics' and index provide access to recurring themes such as deforestation, hydroelectric power, mining, and land tenure.
PAPER RESOURCE: International dictionary of historic places - Ring, Trudy (1994)
Call Number: CC135 .I585 1994 ||| Located in Middleton Reference ||| From the Taj Mahal to the Parthenon, from Gettysburg to Heidelberg, from Beacon Hill to Tower Hill, from the Great Wall to Hadrian's Wall, from Jerusalem to Kyoto, the International Dictionary of Historic Places presents some 1,000 comprehensive and fully illustrated histories of the most famous sites in the world. Entries include: location, description, and site office details; and a 3,000 to 4,000 word essay that provides a full history of the site and the condition of the site today. An annotated Further Reading list of books and articles about the site completes each entry.
PAPER RESOURCE: Kinship and marriage among the Nuer - Evans-Pritchard, E. E. (1951)
Call Number: GN480 .E78 ||| Located in the Middleton Stacks ||| Sir Edward Evans-Pritchard's classic writings on the Nuer of southern Sudan have made them one of the most famous peoples in ethnographic literature. When the writings were first published half a century ago, they created a new agenda for social anthropology. Kinship and Marriage among the Nuer is the second of his trilogy on the society and culture of this pastoral people. It vividly portrays the experience of growing up in a Nuer community, describing daily life, marriage, sex, death, and birth. It also makes clear the essential difference between the discourse of political association and that of kinship, and shows the part played by the kinship system in Nuer society as a whole. Now published for the first time in paperback, this edition has a substantial introduction by Wendy James in which she assesses the importance of Evans-Pritchard's work and places it in the context of recent developments in social anthropology.
PAPER RESOURCE: Les Nuer - Evans-Pritchard, E. E. (1968 [1940])
Call Number: DT132 E8 ||| Located in the Middleton Stacks ||| A classic ethnography and a Description of the Modes of Livelihood and Political Institutions of a Nilotic People.
PAPER RESOURCE: Readings for A history of anthropological theory - Erickson, Paul A. (2001)
Call Number: GN33 .R4 2001 ||| Located in Middleton Reference ||| A reader companion to A History of Anthropological Theory by Paul A. Erickson
Call Number: GN345 .B36 2002 ||| Located in Middleton Reference ||| Research Methods in Anthropology is the standard textbook for methods classes in anthropology. Written in Russ Bernards unmistakable conversational style, his guide has launched tens of thousands of students into the fieldwork enterprise with a combination of rigorous methodology, wry humor, and commonsense advice. The author has thoroughly updated this new fourth edition. Whether you are coming from a scientific, interpretive, or applied anthropological tradition, you will learn field methods from the best guide in both qualitative and quantitative methods. Visit our website for sample chapters!
PAPER RESOURCE: The Cambridge encyclopedia of hunters and gatherers - Lee, Richard B. (1999)
Call Number: GN388 .C35 1999 ||| Located in Middleton Reference ||| The Encyclopedia is divided into three parts. The first contains case studies, by leading experts, of over fifty hunting and gathering peoples, in seven major world regions. There is a general introduction and an archaeological overview for each region. Part II contains thematic essays on prehistory, social life, gender, music and art, health, religion, and indigenous knowledge. The final part surveys the complex histories of hunter-gatherers’ encounters with colonialism and the state, and their ongoing struggles for dignity and human rights as part of the worldwide movement of indigenous peoples.
PAPER RESOURCE: The Chicago manual of style
Call Number: Z253 .C57 ||| Located in Middleton Reference and in the Middleton Stacks ||| In the 1890s, a proofreader at the University of Chicago Press prepared a single sheet of typographic fundamentals intended as a guide for the University community. That sheet grew into a pamphlet, and the pamphlet grew into a book—the first edition of the Manual of Style, published in 1906. Now in its fifteenth edition, The Chicago Manual of Style—the essential reference for authors, editors, proofreaders, indexers, copywriters, designers, and publishers in any field—is more comprehensive and easier to use than ever before.
PAPER RESOURCE: The dictionary of anthropology - Barfield, Thomas (1997)
Call Number: GN307 .D485 1997 ||| Located in Middleton Reference ||| The Dictionary of Anthropology is designed to become the standard reference guide to the discipline of social and cultural anthropology. Its core consists of substantial analytical articles focusing on key anthropological concepts, theories and methodologies.
Call Number: GT31 .G74 2004 ||| Located in Middleton Reference ||| The course of daily life in the United States has been a product of tradition, environment, and circumstance. How did the Civil War alter the lives of women, both white and black, left alone on southern farms? How did the Great Depression change the lives of working class families in eastern cities? How did the dicovery of gold in California transform the lives of native American, Hispanic, and white communities in western territories? Organized by time period as spelled out in the National Standards for U.S. History, these four volumes effectively analyze the diverse whole of American experience, examining the domestic, economic, intellectual, material, political, recreational, and religious life of the American people between 1763 and 2005.
PAPER RESOURCE: The Greenwood encyclopedia of women's issues worldwide - Walter, Lynn (2003)
Call Number: HQ1115 .G74 2003 ||| Located in Middleton Reference ||| Women are working internationally to build a world based on gender equality and justice. Their concerns are shaped by conditions in their own countries and regions, and also by conditions for women in other parts of the world. Links forged by globalization, international relations, United Nations gender equality and development programs, and women's nongovernmental organizations connect their futures. This groundbreaking reference set documents the achievements and current challenges for all women, providing distortion-free and newly available information about women's status, in matters from education to violence, in more than 130 countries in the world's most populated areas.
PAPER RESOURCE: Tristes tropiques - Levi-Strauss, Claude (1955)
Call Number: F2520 .L48 ||| Located in the Middleton Stacks ||| This is a classic work of ethnography spanning the travels and experiences of Claude Levi-Strauss, a structural theorist.
Partners In Health (PIH), Health Care for the Poor
The PIH Vision: Whatever it takes At its root, our mission is both medical and moral. It is based on solidarity, rather than charity alone. When a person in Peru, or Siberia, or rural Haiti falls ill, PIH uses all of the means at our disposal to make them well—from pressuring drug manufacturers, to lobbying policy makers, to providing medical care and social services. Whatever it takes. Just as we would do if a member of our own family—or we ourselves—were ill.
Notes on photoethnography, ethnographic filmmaking, fieldwork in Japan, classic cameras, digital photography, and other topics concerning visual anthropology. Sponsored by Photoethnography.com
Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford
The Pitt Rivers Museum cares for one of the world's great collections. It is equally famous for its celebrated displays and its leading role in contemporary research and museum curatorship. This site introduces visitors to both.
Popular Anthropology is a free online magazine dedicated to fostering a much-needed dialogue between anthropologists and the general public. Anthropologists spend years conducting research and writing important articles that rarely reach the public. This magazine's objective is to construct a bridge between scientists and the public to inform, educate, and ultimately share that vast amount of knowledge in a manner that is both considerate and informative. Each issue contains Features submitted by social scientists working in the subfields of Archaeology, Biological Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, and Linguistic Anthropology. In addition, articles from other social scientists and interdisciplinary fields are also presented. Each issue features several Departments written by social scientists, including Social Science across the Globe, Primate News, and Global Education. The first issue is scheduled to be published in March 2010.
Popular Anthropology: Theses and Dissertations Database
Welcome to Popular Anthropology Magazine's free online Theses and Dissertations Database. This database is available free of charge to both scholars and the general public, and includes Bachelor's and Master's Theses and Doctoral Dissertations. You can search for publications here, and also submit your publications to the database as well. We accept theses and dissertations in any language and in any discipline.
Indexes publications on demography and population research. You may search the Population Index database for 1986-1999 (43,463 citations) by author, subject, geographical region and/or year. You may also search for text anywhere in a citation, including the title, series and abstract. All of these criteria can be freely combined.
About the Population Reference Bureau The Population Reference Bureau informs people around the world about population, health, and the environment, and empowers them to use that information to advance the well-being of current and future generations. We focus our work around four "core themes": Reproductive Health and Fertility; Children and Families; Population and the Environment; and Population Futures—Aging, Inequality and Poverty, Migration and Urbanization, and Gender. We also emphasize two Strategic Approaches: Building Coalitions and Mobilizing Civil Society. Reproductive Health and Fertility, Children & Families, Population and the Environment, Population Futures, and Strategic Approaches.
Project Muse provides online, world wide, institutional subscription access to the full text of over 100 scholarly journals in the arts and humanities, social sciences and mathematics.
Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection
Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection is a comprehensive database covering information concerning topics in emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational & experimental methods. Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection can be searched independently, but also allows users to conveniently link to full text from citations within PsycINFO®. These citations, when viewed via EBSCOhost, have the ability to link to articles from more than 500 full text journals contained within Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection.
Are we so different? Current science tells us we share a common ancestry and the differences among people we see are natural variations, results of migration, marriage and adaptation to different environments. How does this fit with the idea of race? Looking through the eyes of history, science and lived experience, the RACE Project explains differences among people and reveals the reality – and unreality – of race. The story of race is complex and may challenge how we think about race and human variation, about the differences and similarities among people.
Research Awards (The American Folklife Center, Library of Congress)
The American Folklife Center's competitive awards provide modest financial awards for scholars interested in working with ethnographic collection materials at the Library of Congress and for those individuals conducting fieldwork on topics related to the aims and scope of folklife research. Descriptions of these programs and awards follow.
Review of the Indigenous Caribbean Center
This is the new blog/newsletter of the Indigenous Caribbean Center (ICC), now fully functional. The precursor of this blog was The CAC Review (archived) and the precursor to the ICC was the Caribbean Amerindian Centrelink. Our aim is to provide a wide variety of news, views, and announcements concerning indigenous peoples of the Caribbean, past and present, and the wider indigenous world.
Royal Anthropological Institute
The Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland (RAI) is the world's longest-established scholarly association dedicated to the furtherance of anthropology (the study of humankind) in its broadest and most inclusive sense. The Institute is a non-profit-making registered charity and is entirely independent, with a Director and a small staff accountable to the Council, which in turn is elected annually from the Fellowship. It has a Royal Patron in the person of HRH The Duke of Gloucester KG, GCVO.
The Royal BC Museum Corporation is one of the foremost cultural institutions in the world. The museum was founded in 1886; the archives in 1894. In 2003 these two organizations integrated to become British Columbia's combined provincial museum and archives, collecting artifacts, documents and specimens of BC's natural and human history, safeguarding them for the future, and sharing them with the world.
SAFN | Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition
The Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition (SAFN), formerly known as the Council on Nutritional Anthropology (CNA), was organized in 1974 in response to the increased interest in the interface between social sciences and human nutrition. SAFN has the following objectives: To encourage research and exchange of ideas, theories, methods and scientific information relevant to understanding the socio-cultural, behavioral and political-economic factors related to food and nutrition; To provide a forum for communication and interaction among scientists sharing these interests and with other appropriate organizations; To promote practical collaboration among social and nutritional scientists at the fields and program levels.
Sanborn Maps (Digital) - Louisiana
Provides digital Sanborn maps for Louisiana.
SAR - List-serv for Society for the Anthropology of Religion
SAR members can now sign up for the list-serve by going to http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/sar. Existing list-serve members can use the form on the same web-page to change the e-mail address that their list-serve messages are sent to, or to unsubscribe to the list-serve. There is also a new web-based archive of all messages sent out to the SAR list-serve located at http://dss.ucsd.edu/pipermail/sar/; unfortunately, the archive currently only goes back to November of 2005. Of course, if you have any questions about the list-serve, or if anyone wants to sign up to the list-serve the old way, they can write me, the list serve moderator, at jbialeck@weber.ucsd.edu.
Savage Minds | Notes and Queries in Anthropology — A Group Blog
Savage Minds is a collective web log devoted to both bringing anthropology to a wider audience as well as providing an online forum for discussing the latest developments in the field. We are a group of Ph.D. students and professors teaching and studying anthropology and are excited to share it with you. You can find out more about the contributors by clicking on the ‘about’ pages on the right for each of us. The title of our blog comes from Lévi-Strauss’s book Pensée Sauvage. And yes: those are pansies on the mast head.
Science Direct, published by Elsevier Science, serves as a web information source for scientific, technical, and medical (STM) research. It offers access to more than 1,100 journals in 16 fields of science, including the social sciences.
I believe that through respectful attention to where I am, I am better able to understand all places. Shenzhen Noted introduces my observations of, thoughts on, and inspirations from living in Shenzhen in order to think creatively about alternative globalizations. On that note, it bears mentioning that as Shenzhen celebrates its 30th anniversary, the term special economic zone not only smells moldy, but also sounds out-dated. Such is the post Cold War rush into the future. Sigh.
Social Science Open Access Repository
As an open-access full-text server, SSOAR's goal is to implement the "green road" to open access by providing users with free electronic access to journal article preprints and postprints -- our main focus -- and also to other document types. SSOAR is especially committed to the archiving and dissemination of quality-controlled texts. The repository has been certified by DINI, the German Initiative for Networked Information. The DINI certificate confirms our compliance with formal and technical standards and quality criteria for open-access repositories. You, as an author, are warmly invited to deposit your texts. Furthermore, we would appreciate it if you would spread the word about SSOAR to your friends and colleagues.
Society for Anthropology in Community Colleges
SACC's major interests are in the teaching of anthropology, sharing teaching strategies, and addressing related issues. Other SACC interests involve increasing the visibility of community colleges, working with colleges and universities, and contributing to K-12 anthropology. As an independent organization and as part of the AAA, SACC has held its own annual meetings (18 meetings from 1987 to 2006) and has met as an organization at the AAA's annual meetings held around the country.
Society for Anthropology in Community Colleges SACC-L
A news and discussion forum for members and friends of the Society for Anthropology in Community Colleges.
Society for Cultural Anthropology
The Society for Cultural Anthropology (SCA), a section of the American Anthropological Association, was founded in 1983. The SCA promotes scholarship and scholarly communication about cultural studies and culture theory broadly conceived. SCA also aims to connect cultural anthropology with scholars in such other disciplines as history, literature, philosophy, and science studies.
Society for East Asian Anthropology: SEAA
The Purpose of the Section: To advance the anthropological study of East Asian societies and cultures, and other societies/cultures and diasporic and transnational communities with historical or contemporary ties to East Asia. To encourage and facilitate greater scholarly communications and collaborations among East Asianist anthropologists working and teaching in various societies within and outside of East Asia.
Society for Humanistic Anthropology
Humanism has historically made the human endeavor the subject of its concerns. Humanistic anthropology seeks to bring the intellectual resources of the discipline to bear upon this subject. While not blind to the constraints within which we humans operate, humanistic anthropology, in the tradition of the discipline, celebrates that human reality is something upon which we creative primates have real feedback effects: we can change our social and natural environment. Accordingly, it recognizes that anthropological inquiry constitutes a part of that work, particularly in promoting multicultural understanding and revealing the social blockages that are deleterious to our social and physical environment.
Society for Humanistic Anthropology ListServ
The mailing list for the Society for Humanistic Anthropology
Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology
The first chapter of SLACA was founded by the American Anthropological Association (AAA) in 1969 to advance the study of Latin American anthropology. In 2005, the Society's membership offically approved the adoption of "Caribbean" to the Society's name to reflect the connections between the Latin American and Caribbean regions. SLACA provides a forum for discussion of current research, scholarly trends, and human rights concerns, as well as a space for interchange among scholars from and who work in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Society for Medical Anthropology
This web site serves the needs of medical anthropology graduate students, practicing anthropologists, scholars, and scholar activists who address issues of local, national and international health importance. It is the hub of an active research community and a storehouse for information supporting the endeavors of medical anthropologists and their colleagues in allied social science fields. The site further intends to inform the general public and policy-makers of the scope and breadth of medical anthropology. The site, like the field of medical anthropology, draws upon and benefits from a wide range of theories and methods. It also serves as a space to promote and foster collaboration and coalition-building.
Society for Psychological Anthropology
The Society for Psychological Anthropology (SPA) of the American Anthropological Association was founded in 1977. SPA is a broad, multidisciplinary organization of individuals interested in cultural, psychological, and social interrelations at all levels.
Society for Psychological Anthropology ListServ
The mailing list for the Society for Psychological Anthropology.
Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness
The Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness (SAC) is an interdisciplinary academic organization dedicated to the study of consciousness phenomena in cultures around the world. A section of the American Anthropological Association (AAA), SAC members utilize cross-cultural, experimental, experiential, and theoretical approaches to study consciousness. SAC publishes a journal, Anthropology of Consciousness, holds an annual Spring Meeting, and sponsors sessions at other meetings, such as those of the American Anthropological Association (AAA). Through this site, SAC hopes to further scholarly exchanges between anthropologists and persons in other disciplines within consciousness studies.
Society for the Anthropology of Europe
The purposes of the organization, as announced in the organizing letter that went out to colleagues in 1986, were: Strengthening national and international networks between colleagues. Providing forums for discussion and debate Encouraging comparative research Enhancing the visibility and legitimacy of Europeanist anthropology, both within the discipline and among other Europeanist groups Facilitating dissemination of information about employment opportunities, grants, visiting European scholars, and other resources Promoting the professional integration of students specializing in Europe.
Society for the Anthropology of North America
The goal of the Society for the Anthropology of North America is to address the need for a focused voice and institutional presence for the Anthropology of the United States, Canada and Mexico. While elements of our research tradition are addressed by applied, medical, educational, political and urban anthropology, among others, no previously organized anthropological society has focused upon this region as an "area." In order to place our research findings in historical perspective and to continue developing theoretically, it is important that we acknowledge our area context and begin to analyze it systematically within broad frameworks such as ethnicity, race, class, gender and structured inequality.
Society for the Anthropology of North America
The goal of the Society for the Anthropology of North America is to address the need for a focused voice and institutional presence for the Anthropology of the United States, Canada and Mexico. While elements of our research tradition are addressed by applied, medical, educational, political and urban anthropology, among others, no previously organized anthropological society has focused upon this region as an "area." In order to place our research findings in historical perspective and to continue developing theoretically, it is important that we acknowledge our area context and begin to analyze it systematically within broad frameworks such as ethnicity, race, class, gender and structured inequality.
Society for the Anthropology of Religion
The section has been formed to facilitate teaching and research in the anthropological study of religion. This includes anthropological approaches to religion from all the subdisciplines: cultural anthropology, archaeology, physical anthropology, etc. We also intend to encourage and help provide avenues for enhanced communication among scholars sharing the interests of anthropology and religion.
Society for the Anthropology of Work
The purposes for which SAW is formed are (a) to advance the study of work in all its aspects, by anthropologists from all areas of the discipline; and (b) to encourage the communication of such study.
Society for Urban, National and Transnational/Global Anthropology Listserv Information
The URBANTH-L listserv is meant for committed and active members of the Society for Urban, National and Transnational/Global Anthropology (SUNTA), as well as all those with an interest in the field of urban anthropology. It can be used for subscribers to post information about forthcoming meetings, conferences, announcements, queries, calls for proposals, and other opportunities. While all subscribers are welcome to post messages to the list, the list is "moderated" (i.e. messages are approved for posting by the Secretary of the Society for Urban Anthropology) so that members do not receive personal messages inadvertently posted to the list-at-large.
Society for Urban, National, and Transnational/Global Anthropology
SUNTA, a section of the American Anthropological Association, concerns itself with theories, problems, processes, and institutions of urban, national and transnational life. Urban life and problems in the modern world are interrelated with national and transnational institutions (especially globalizing capitalism), processes, and forces.
Society of Gay and Lesbian Anthropologists List Service
Mailing list for the Society of Gay and Lesbian Anthropologists
Society of Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists
This section of the website is to keep members informed of news, events, procedures, and ongoing discussions within the organization. In time, it will grow to include the history of SOLGA including past editions of the SOLGAN and columns from the Anthropology Newsletter.
SocINDEX with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive and highest quality sociology research database. The index features more than 1,300,000 records with subject headings from a 15,000 term sociology-specific thesaurus designed by expert lexicographers. This file also contains informative abstracts for more than 590 "core" coverage journals dating back to 1895. In addition, this file provides data mined from more than 500 "priority" coverage journals as well as 1,040 "selective" coverage journals. Further, extensive indexing for books, monographs, conference papers, and other sources is included. Searchable cited references are also provided.
Sociocultural Theory in Anthropology
Sociocultural Anthropology has been through dramatic changes in the last 30 years. This site provides resources for student and professional anthropologists interested in learning more about the discipline and its recent history. Graduate students in the Indiana University Anthropology Department's annual Proseminar in Sociocultural Anthropology have written these pages as part of their class work beginning in 1995. The sections of the website explore different ways to think about the spatial, temporal, and intellectual dimensions of sociocultural anthropology (including some sociolinguistics). Taking an anthropological approach, the site looks at how sociocultural anthropologists organize themselves into groups, how the discipline has changed over time, and at the individuals who have been influential in the discipline.
Sociocultural Theory Throught Time
Our goal was to measure trends in theory over the 30 years from 1968 to 1998. We did this by creating a series of portraits, which you can move through quickly, like a flip-book. Each student was assigned one year (at three-year intervals). In that period each compiled standard information, based on a survey of articles in four mainstream journals, and three less popular journals (see the list at the right)
A collaborative weblog covering the intersections of medical anthropology, science and technology studies, cultural psychiatry and bioethics.
Southeastern Native American Documents, 1763-1842
Southeastern Native American Documents, 1730-1842, contains approximately 2,000 documents and images relating to the Native American population of the Southeastern United States from the collections of the University of Georgia Libraries, the University of Tennessee at Knoxville Library, the Frank H. McClung Museum, the Tennessee State Library and Archives, the Tennessee State Museum, the Museum of the Cherokee Indian, and the LaFayette-Walker County Library. The documents are comprised of letters, legal proceedings, military orders, financial papers, and archaeological images relating to Native Americans in the Southeast. About the image at left. This site includes historical materials that may contain offensive language or negative stereotypes reflecting the culture or language of a particular period or place. These items are presented as part of the historical record. Please see Issues of Cultural Sensitivity for more information.
Space and Culture - the international journal and weblog dedicated to social spaces of all kinds.
The Springer database offers up to 500 journals and 7 bookseries, online in areas including engineering, science, humanities, business etc.
Statistical Abstract of the U.S.
Provides a quick statistical reference and a guide to statistical publications and sources, with tables from governmental, private, and international organizations. The most recent issue of Statistical Abstract is available, as well as the older issues dating back to 1878.
We are scholars concerned about stereotypes, misinformation and propaganda spread in the media and academic forums on Islam and the Middle East. We are committed to fair, open-ended scholarly assessment of the current political issues of terrorism, gender inequality and intolerance. We encourage informed debate rather than partisan posturing on all issues. We encourage informed debate rather than partisan posturing on all issues. We believe in active involvement as public intellectuals communicating the best of available research.
A discussion forum run by a seasoned Community College Instructor for those who want to share the pluses, minuses, rants, and fist bumps that come from teaching Anthropology at the undergraduate level. Gather up your pigs, yams, and banana leaf bundles and join the fun.
Terra Nova is a weblog about virtual worlds. Virtual Worlds are also known as synthetics worlds, MMOs, MMORPGs, Social Worlds, MUDs, MOOs, and MUSHes. Terra Nova authors include scholars and practitioners from a variety of disciplines. Additional information about individual authors, contributors, and guests can be found via the hyperlinks on the right hand column of the main page.
The American Folklore Society is an association of people who study and communicate knowledge about folklore throughout the world. Our more than 2,200 members and subscribers are scholars, teachers, and libraries at colleges and universities; professionals in arts and cultural organizations; and community members involved in folklore work. Many of our members live and work in the US, but their interests in folklore stretch around the world, and today about one in every eight AFS members is from outside the US. A collective of humanities scholars, museum anthropologists, and private citizens--including author Mark Twain and US President Rutherford B. Hayes--founded the Society in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1888.
The American Schools of Oriental Research
The American Schools of Oriental Research supports and encourages the study of the peoples and cultures of the Near East, from the earliest times to the present.
FRAN BARONE PHD CANDIDATE, UNIVERSITY OF KENT, UNITED KINGDOM I'm a Social Anthropologist currently exploring the relationship between new communication technologies and contemporary urban life in Spain.
I am an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Florida, where I have been since 1989. I came to linguistics and anthropology after teaching Spanish as a Peace Corps Volunteer on Carriacou, Grenada, 1971-74. From this experience I developed a deep and abiding interest, some might say obsession, with the role of "non-standard" languages in education, and this is reflected in my doctoral research. As a four-field trained anthropologist, I teach and write about a range of topics that includes language, human evolution, human biological and cultural diversity, and the uses of anthropology in helping to explain and solve human problems. As a scientific anthropologist, I am dedicated to research that is empirically based and that has the potential to lead to nomothetic explanations of human nature.
The Evolutionary Anthropology Society
The Evolutionary Anthropology Society (EAS) is a section of the American Anthropological Association. We bring together all those interested in applying modern evolutionary theory to the analysis of human biology, behavior, and culture. This website describes our group’s activities. We welcome students, faculty, and anyone with similar interests to join the EAS and help us build a thriving community of researchers.
The General Anthropology Division
The General Anthropology Division (GAD) is an evolving coalition of anthropologists interested in what unifies and cross-cuts the discipline. It stimulates conversations that span the subfields and provides a home for emerging interests and ideas. It raises broad questions, fosters the emergence of new areas of inquiry, and examines the structures and conditions that shape our lives as anthropologists. GAD is also the umbrella for several committees that examine particular cross-disciplinary issues, such as the history of anthropology, science and technology studies, anthropological teaching, and the nature of anthropology in small programs. GAD publishes a bulletin, General Anthropology, and the FOSAP publication, ANTHRO-AT-LARGE.
The Historic New Orleans Collection
The Historic New Orleans Collection is a museum, research center, and publisher dedicated to the study and preservation of the history and culture of New Orleans and the Gulf South region. General and Mrs. L. Kemper Williams, collectors of Louisiana materials, established the institution in 1966 to keep their collection intact and available for research and exhibition to the public. Over the 40 years since its founding, The Historic New Orleans Collection has added to its holdings and augmented the physical structures that house them, established ambitious publishing and exhibition schedules, and developed innovative educational programs.
The Middle East Section of The American Anthropological Association
The Middle East Section (MES) of the American Anthropological Association convenes anthropologists with an interest in the peoples, cultures and histories of the Middle East. Our membership is noteworthy for its disciplinary diversity: socio-cultural anthropologists, linguistic anthropologists, physical anthropologists and archaeologists, as well as practicing anthropologists from these subdisciplines, all participate actively in the section, and our membership thrives on the participation of members from the United States, the Middle East, and from other parts of the world. The activities of the MES, while ongoing, peak at the annual conference of the American Anthropological Association, where the MES sponsors sessions and panels proposed by its membership. The MES also awards an annual student paper prize.
The Middle East Section of The American Anthropological Association ListServ
The MES sponsors two listservs for members. Both provide a venue for ongoing and active discussions, sharing syllabi, announcing calls-for-papers and publications, open positions, and general communication with other anthropologists and scholars interested in the Middle East. The primary listserv, open to all members (including students), is AAAMIDEAST. The second, designated for student members of the section, is AAAMESSL.
The National Association of Student Anthropologists
The National Association of Student Anthropologists (NASA), the student section of the American Anthropological Association, was founded in 1985 to address graduate and undergraduate student concerns and to promote the interests and involvement of students as anthropologists-in-training. NASA provides a network of students across the subfields of anthropology and directly addresses issues that are of interest to both undergraduate and graduate students, including finding jobs, attending graduate school, fieldwork programs, networking, and much more!
The Society for Anthropological Sciences
The Society for Anthropological Sciences (SAS) was organised to promote empirical research and social science in anthropology. The members of SAS want to further the development of anthropological science as empirical knowledge based on testable theory, sound research design and systematic methods for the collection and analysis of data. We seek to fulfill the historic mission of anthropology to describe and explain the range of variation in human biology, society, and culture across time and space.
The Society for Cultural Anthropology ListServ
The Society for Cultural Anthropology (SCA), a section of the American Anthropological Association, was founded in 1983. The SCA promotes scholarship and scholarly communication about cultural studies and culture theory broadly conceived. SCA also aims to connect cultural anthropology with scholars in such other disciplines as history, literature, philosophy, and science studies.
The Society for Latin American Anthropology ListServ
The first chapter of The Society for Latin American Anthropology (SLAA) was founded by the American Anthropological Association (AAA) in 1969 to advance the study of Latin American anthropology. In 2005, the Society's membership offically approved the adoption of "Caribbean" to the Society's name to reflect the connections between the Latin American and Caribbean regions, and expanded its mission to the anthropology of first generation migrants from Latin American and the Caribbean, wherever they are in the world.
The Society for Visual Anthropology
The Society for Visual Anthropology (SVA) is a section of the American Anthropological Association. We promote the study of visual representation and media. Both research methods and teaching strategies fall within the scope of the society. SVA members are involved in all aspects of production, dissemination, and analysis of visual forms. Works in film, video, photography, and computer-based multimedia explore signification, perception, and communication-in-context, as well as a multitude of other anthropological and ethnographic themes.
The T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History
The primary mission of Center is to document the history of LSU. Because the history of the state and university are closely intertwined, many broader Louisiana subjects are documented as well. Interviewees include war veterans, former governors, congressmen, state and local officials, and other political figures. Documenting the Civil Rights Movement in Louisiana and the diverse cultures that comprise our state are also high priorities. In addition to these large projects, individuals or groups of individuals who possess unique knowledge about the state's culture or history are also of interest.
The Wenner-Gren Foundation: Supporting Worldwide Research in All Branches of Anthropology
The Wenner-Gren Foundation has two major goals – to support significant and innovative anthropological research into humanity's biological and cultural origins, development and variation and to foster the creation of an international community of research scholars in anthropology.
This Blog Sits at the Intersection of Anthropology and Economics
In the First World, culture is constantly formed and reformed by commerce. Back to school for the anthropologist: in my case, to economics and complexity theory. I hold a Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Chicago and I have taught at the Harvard Business School. The places that culture and commerce, anthropology and economics meet most often: marketing in general, branding in particular, popular culture, Hollywood, advertising, television, magazines, and, increasingly, blogging.
Serves as a reference source of county information, containing over 3400 variables or items from 13 federal and private organizations.
UNC Writing Center Handout on Anthropology Writing Assignments
This handout briefly situates anthropology as a discipline of study within the social sciences. It provides an introduction to the kinds of writing that you might encounter in your anthropology courses, describes some of the expectations that your instructors may have, and suggests some ways to approach your assignments. It also includes links to information on citation practices in anthropology and resources for writing anthropological research papers.
Virtual Knowledge Studio (VKS)
The Virtual Knowledge Studio for the Humanities and Social Sciences (KNAW) supports researchers in the humanities and social sciences in the Netherlands in the creation of new scholarly practices and in their reflection on e-research in relation to their fields. A core feature of the Virtual Knowledge Studio is the integration of design and analysis in a close cooperation between social scientists, humanities researchers, information technology experts and information scientists. This integrated approach provides insight in the way e-research can contribute to new research questions and methods. The VKS collaborates with the Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Erasmus Virtual Knowledge Studio KNAW (in short: Erasmus Studio) based in Rotterdam and with Maastricht University in the Maastricht Virtual Knowledge Studio KNAW based in Maastricht.
My students write entries every week for their visual anthropology photo-journal blogs. See how they describe and visualize Japanese culture. I provide visual anthropology resources and experiment with the visual representation of Japan. Comments and questions - for students and myself - are especially solicited. VIEW MY COMPLETE PROFILE
The existence of this blog is in large part due to a visit to colleagues in Barcelona in May 2007. Following their example and encouragement, we are taking up a new practice, in the hope that this blog will provide the opportunity to explore another mediation of our work (besides articles and our website), to develop a voice, and to play with digital objects. It may also be a way to communicate and share within the virtual ethnography collaboratory of the VKS and across VKS projects in which ethnography figures prominently. In the first instance, it will serve as support for this event in Amsterdam.
Social Sciences Citation Index - This database covers the journal literature of the social sciences. It indexes more than 1,725 journals spanning 50 disciplines from 1956 to the present. Some of the disciplines covered include: anthropology, political science, history, public health, industrial relations, social issues, information science & library science, social work, law, sociology, linguistics, substance abuse, philosophy, urban studies, psychology, women's studies, and psychiatry.
INCITE is an Incubator for Critical Inquiry into Technology and Ethnography. It is based in the Sociology Department at Goldsmiths College, University of London. Here, INCITE's bevy of researchers report on matters methodological and theoretical, and discuss their various research projects as they progress.
Wikipedia:WikiProject Anthropology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Welcome to the Anthropology WikiProject. We are a group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of Anthropology. A WikiProject is a collection of pages devoted to the management of a specific topic or family of topics within Wikipedia; and, simultaneously, a group of editors who use those pages to collaborate on encyclopedic work. It is not a place to write encyclopedia articles directly, but a resource to help coordinate and organize the writing and editing of those articles. The discussion pages attached to a project page are a convenient forum for those interested in that project.
The World History Collection database offers a global look at history with content from Africa, Asia, North and South America, Europe and the Middle East. World History Collection contains cover-to-cover full text for more than 130 titles, including many peer-reviewed journals. Full text dates as far back as 1964. These hand-selected information sources cover a wide range of historical topics including anthropology, art, culture, economics, government, heritage, military, politics, regional issues, and more. In addition to the full text, indexing and abstracts are provided for all journals in the collection.
World Lecture Hall publishes links to pages created by faculty worldwide who are using the Web to deliver course materials in any language. Some courses are delivered entirely over the Internet. Others are designed for students in residence. Many fall somewhere in between. In all cases, they can be visited by anyone interested in courseware on the Internet — faculty, developers, and curious students alike.
Offers Records of any type of material cataloged by OCLC member libraries. Includes manuscripts written as early as the 12th century.
a blog in the strict sense of the term accompanying the cyber anthropological research-project 'maxmod' maxmod::online among the gamemodders the cultural appropriation of information and communication technologies an open-research-project in cyberanthropology, a branch of sociocultural anthropology
Excerpts from YANOMAMO INTERACTIVE CD/ROM by Peter Biella, Napoleon A. Chagnon and Gary Seaman, copyright (c) 1997
