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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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
Cultural Anthropology Tutorials Menu
Lessons on various topics in cultural anthropology. Includes glossaries, practice quizzes, and lists of related links.
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.
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.
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
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.
Ethnologue, Languages of the World
Ethnologue.com is a place where you can conveniently find many resources to help you with your research of the world's languages. Ethnologue.com is owned by SIL International, a service organization that works with people who speak the world’s lesser-known languages. Ethnologue language data: The language data you will find on this site came from the Ethnologue database. Once every four years we take a "snapshot" of the contents of the database and publish it along with language maps for many of the countries of the world. The most recently published edition of the Ethnologue database is Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 15th Edition. The language data from the fifteenth edition is presented in this searchable web version.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The study of language has been part of anthropology since the discipline started in the 1ate 1870s. This site is a place for linguistic anthropologists to post their work and discuss important events and trends in the field.
LOUISiana Digital Library is Louisiana's doorway to the unique cultural and historical resources of Louisiana's libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural institutions.
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).
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.
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.
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.
Online supplement to museum anthropology, the journal of the council for museum anthropology, a section of the American Anthropological Association
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.
Native American Language Net: Preserving and promoting indigenous American Indian languages
We are a small non-profit organization dedicated to the survival of Native American languages, particularly through the use of Internet technology. Our website is not beautiful. Probably, it never will be. But this site has inner beauty, for it is, or will be, a compendium of online materials about more than 800 indigenous languages of the Western Hemisphere and the people that speak them.
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.
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).
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.
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.
Paul Meier Dialect Services - Interantional Phonetic Alphabet charts
The following interactive charts of the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) were designed by Eric Armstrong of York University, Toronto, Canada; and voiced by Paul Meier, of the University of Kansas, USA. They are provided as an aid to students of dialects and phonetics. If you are studying dialects with Paul Meier Dialect Services books or booklets, and want to hear one of the "signature sounds" in isolation, or in comparison with other sounds, you may do so using the charts here. Vowels, consonants, ingressives, suprasegmentals, intonation, diacritics, ejectives, implosives, diphthongs, and clicks are demonstrated. Clicking one of the charts below will link you to a Flash animation.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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 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 Linguistic Anthropology
Linguistic Anthropology is the comparative study of the ways in which language shapes social life. It explores the many ways in which practices of language use shape patterns of communication, formulate categories of social identity and group membership, organize large-scale cultural beliefs and ideologies, and, in conjunction with other semiotic practices, equip people with common cultural representations of their natural and social worlds.
Society for Linguistic Anthropology Blog
Linguistic Anthropology is the comparative study of the ways in which language shapes social life. It explores the many ways in which practices of language use shape patterns of communication, formulate categories of social identity and group membership, organize large-scale cultural beliefs and ideologies, and, in conjunction with other semiotic practices, equip people with common cultural representations of their natural and social worlds. On this website, you can find information about who we are, where to contact us, what we do, and how to participate.
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 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 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
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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 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 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.
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.
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.

