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Internet Resources for Social and Cultural Anthropology
Starting Points | Archives, Databases, Exhibits, and Information Sources | Museums | Societies, Associations, and Other Organizations | University Departments, Programs, and Centers | Regional Resources | Other Sites of Interest
Starting Points
Anthro.Net
A search engine that “queries a database of over 40,000 reviewed web sites with anthropological content built by the interests of its users.”Anthropology and Archaeology (Yahoo)
Search these categories: archaeology, biological anthropology, Cargo Cult, conferences, education, ethnobotany, ethnomusicology, institutes, journals, linguistics and human languages, mailing lists, museums, organizations, papers, Usenet.Anthropology Resources on the Internet
Maintained by the American Anthropological Association.Anthropology Resources on the Internet
Maintained by Bernard-Olivier Clist.Intute: Anthropology
Provides free access to high quality resources on the Internet. Each resource has been evaluated and categorized by subject specialists based at universities in Britain.
Jump to top of page.Archives, Databases, Exhibits, and Information Sources
Aboriginal Links
Maintained by the Aboriginal Multi-Media Society, this site has links relating to First Nations peoples, Native Americans of Canada.Aboriginal Studies Electronic Data Archive
Maintained by the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies.African Lives
Based on a series of occasional articles in the Washington Post concerning everyday life in Africa. The eight articles available address topics such as the Sudanese Dinka tribe, child brides in the Ivory Coast, and funeral rites in Ghana. Each article may be accompanied by a photo gallery and a set of annotated links to more information about the country discussed.African Voices
This Web site from the Smithsonian dynamically presents cross-sections of the history, culture, and art of Africa.Anthropology Biography Web
Part of the Emuseum at Minnesota State Unversity, this site offers brief, encyclopedic entries on the lives of 392 significant anthropologists or prominent thinkers in other fields who have influenced the discipline.Anthropology Review Database
A project of the University of Buffalo, this site reviews books, films, audio-visual products, educational multimedia, and computer programs, and Web projects.APFT (Avenir des Peuples des Forêts Tropicales)
A multi-disciplinary project sponsored by the European Community which aims to investigate and document the future of the peoples of the rainforest. You can view maps, APFT publications (articles, reports, projects, and working papers), and search a bibliographical database.Bureau of American Ethnography Annual Reports
Digitized edition by Gallica. 1st (1879/80)-48th (1930/31) are available at the site.CSAC's Ethnographics Gallery
Maintained by the Centre for Social Anthropology and Computing, University of Kent at Canterbury.Digital Librarian
A Librarian’s Choice of the Best of the Web: Native American Resources.Ethnographic Wax Cylinders
Over 200 rare wax cylinder recordings from the World and Traditional Music collections of the British Library Sound Archive. The selection features music, songs and speech from around the world, captured on the first portable recording machines between 1898 and 1915.Exploring Ancient World Cultures
An introductory, online, college-level “textbook” of ancient world cultures, providing a well-illustrated and easily navigable tour of sites pertaining to Egypt, the Ancient Near East, India, China, Medieval Europe, Classical Greece, the Roman Empire, and the Islamic World.G. I. Jones Photographic Archive of Southeastern Nigerian Art and Culture
An archive of digitized photographs depicting the arts and cultures of southeastern Nigeria. The collection includes examples from Ibibio, Igbo, Ijo and Ogoni speaking peoples. All of the photographs were taken in the 1930s by the late G.I. Jones, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge.Guide to the Collections of the National Anthropological Archives
An important repository of primary source material, covering cultural anthropology, linguistics, archaeology, and physical anthropology. The collections include papers of eminent American anthropologists as well as the records of the American Anthropological Association.Index of Native American Resources on the Internet
Maintained by Karen Strom, University of Massachusetts.The “Looting Question” Bibliography
Provocatively subtitled “Web and Literary Resources on the Archaeological Politics of Private Collecting, Commercial Treasure Hunting, Looting, and ‘Professional’ Archaeology,” this comprehensive online bibliography provides scholars and practitioners with resources related to the “looting question.” The bibliography is organized by format type and focuses on North American materials.Makhzan: CSAC Anthropology Bibliography
The general social anthropology bibliography maintained at the Centre for Social Anthropology and Computing, University of Kent at Canterbury.Margaret Mead: Human Nature and the Power of Culture
This site from the Library of Congress features materials from LC’s 500,000-item Mead archives, including manuscripts, diaries, letters, field notes, drawings, prints, photographs, sound recordings and film. The largest segment of the exhibition focuses on Mead’s fieldwork in Samoa, Papua New Guinea, and Bali.Native Web
Information on native peoples by subject, geographic region, and by nation or people.Paint by Number
This site from the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History on the popular 1950s’ hobby of painting by number shows the perspectives of “the artists and entrepreneurs who created the popular paint kits, the cultural critics who reviled them, and the hobbyists who happily completed them and hung them in their homes.”Race: Are We So Different?
From the American Anthropological Assocation.Resources for the Anthropological Study of Food Habits: Bibliography
Explore the anthropology of eating.Theory in Anthropology
Maintained by graduate students in the Anthropology Department, Indiana University, as a part of “Proseminar in Sociocultural Anthropology.” Links to Web pages covering subdisciplines within the field, changes in anthropological perspectives over time, and prominent theorists are provided.World Lecture Hall
A gateway to online lectures, course outlines, and entire Web-based modules. Click on “Search WLH” in the left frame, enter “Anthropology/Archaeology” as Category on the pulldown menu, then click the search button.
Museums
Bishop Museum, Honolulu, Hawai`i
The Hawai`i state museum of natural and cultural history.Museum of Anthropology (University of Michigan)
National Anthropological Archives
The National Anthropological Archives of the Smithsonian Institution collects and preserves historical and contemporary anthropological materials that document the world’s cultures and the history of the discipline. Its collections include manuscripts, fieldnotes, correspondence, photographs, maps, sound recordings, film and video created by Smithsonian anthropologists and other preeminent scholars.Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology (Harvard University)
Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
The site includes the The Smithsonian Folklife and Oral History Interviewing Guide.
Societies, Associations, and Other Organizations
The British Academy
The national academy for the humanities and social sciences in the United Kingdom.Pioneer America Society: Association for the Preservation of Artifacts and Landscapes
Society for Applied Anthropology
Founded to promote the investigation of the principles of human behavior and the application of these principles to contemporary issues and problems.Society for Urban, National and Transnational Anthropology (SUNTA)
University Departments, Programs, and Centers
- Department of Anthropology, University of Arizona
- Department of Anthropology, Arizona State University
- Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley
- Department of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles
- Anthropology at UCSD, University of California, San Diego
- UCSB Anthropology (University of California, Santa Barbara)
- Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago
- Department of Anthropology, Columbia University
- Department of Anthropology, Cornell University
- Ph.D. Program in Anthropology, CUNY Graduate Center
- Department of Cultural Anthropology, Duke University
- Department of Anthropology, University of Florida
- Department of Anthropology, Harvard University
- Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois
- Anthropology Department, Indiana University
- Department of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University
- Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan
- Department of Anthropology, New York University
- Department of Anthropology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
- Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Oxford University
Includes links to other anthropology Web sites. - Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania
- Department of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh
- Department of Anthropology, Princeton University
- Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology, Stanford Unversity
- Department of Anthropology, University of Texas
- Department of Anthropology, University of Virginia
- Department of Anthropology, University of Washington
- Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Regional Resources
Other Sites of Interest
Anthropology in the News
Links to news stories published on the web by CNN, New York Times, USA Today, MS-NBC, Los Angeles Times, Houston Chronicle, San Jose Mercury, Archaeology, Scientific American, American Scientist, National Geographic, university press releases, and other sources.Anthropology Web Ring
Aims to bring together anthropology oriented sites on the Internet to provide valuable links to all groups of interest.Handbook on Ethical Issues in Anthropology
“A special publication of the American Anthropological Association.”
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Last modified: 03/20/09
