Anthropology Internet Resources
Professional
Associations
URL: http://www.ameranthassn.org/index.htm
The American Anthropological Association (AAA) is the world's largest
professional organization of individuals interested in anthropology
and the primary professional society of anthropologists in the United
States since its founding in 1902. Their mission states that : The
purposes of the Association shall be to advance anthropology as the
science that studies humankind in all its aspects, through archeological,
biological, ethnological, and linguistic research; and to further
the professional interests of American anthropologists; including
the disseminiation of
anthropological knowledge and its use to solve human problems. (Quotes
from AAA homepage).
URL: http://physanth.org/
The AAPA is the world's leading professional organization for physical
anthropologists. Physical anthropology is a biological science that
deals with the adaptations, variability, and evolution of human beings
and their living and fossil relatives. Because it studies human biology
in the context of human culture and behavior, physical anthropology
is also a social science. (Quotes from AAPA homepage).
URL: http://www.archaeological.org/
AIA has been dedicated to the encouragement and support of archaeological
research and publication and to the protection of the world's cultural
heritage for more than a century. AIA is a non-profit cultural and
educational organization chartered by the U.S.Congress. In addition
to information about AIA and its membership, publications, meetings
and more, you can follow their links to Archaeological sites on the
WWW. (Quotes from AIA homepage).
URL: http://www.sfaa.net/
The Society for Applied Anthropology aspires to promote the integration
of anthropological perspectives and methods in solving human problems
throughout the world; to advocate for fair and just public policy
based upon sound research; to promote public recognition of anthropology
as a profession; and to support the continuing professionalization
of the field.
URL: http://www.indiana.edu/~wanthro/theory.htm
Sociocultural Anthropology has been through dramatic changes in the
last 30 years. As part of their work in the Indiana University Anthropology
Department's "Proseminar in Sociocultural Anthropology" students have
compiled webpages covering subdisciplines within the field, changes
in anthropological perspectives over time, and prominent theorists.
Subdisciplines covered include: urban anthropology, cultural materialism
and ecological anthropology. All are valuable resources for beginning
and advanced students in sociocultural anthropology. (Quote from Theory
in Anthropology homepage).
URL: http://www.truman.edu/academics/ss/faculty/tamakoshil/index.html
This website from Dr. Laura Zimmer-Tamakoshi presents information
about anthropological fieldwork, taking the interested visitor from
the first steps of preparing a research proposal through to all aspects
of the fieldwork experience including culture shock and participation
and then to writing about experiences. The information is tied into
her fieldwork in Papua, New Guinea. The site includes a useful glossary
and bibliography.
URL: http://www.cwis.org/
The Underlying Principle Guiding CWIS is: Access to knowledge and
peoples' ideas reduces the possibility of conflict and increases the
possibility of cooperation on the basis of mutual consent. By democratizing
relations between peoples, between nations and states, the diversity
of nations and their cultures will continue to enrich the world. CWIS
is an independent, non-profit research and education organization
dedicated to wider understanding and appreciation of the ideas and
knowledge of indigenous peoples and the social, economic and political
realities of indigenous nations. The Fourth
World Documentation Project is an online
library of texts which record and preserve [Fourth World]
peoples' struggles to regain their rightful place in the international
community. Fourth World is defined as: Nations forcefully incorporated
into states which maintain a distinct political culture but are internationally
unrecognized. (Quotes from CWIS pages).
URL: http://www.cs.org:80/
Cultural Survival is a non-profit organization founded to defend
the human rights and cultural autonomy of indigenous peoples and oppressed
ethnic minorities. They focus attention on violations of those rights
and advocate alternative policies that avoid genocide, ethnic conflict,
and the destruction of other peoples' ways of life. (Quotes
from Cultural Survival homepage). Publications
available online include Cultural Survival Quarterly and additional
feature articles and news.
URL: http://www.hanksville.org/sand/sand.html
This site is offered as a place where the debate over where
to draw the "Line in the Sand" on the issues of cultural property, Native
American sovereignty, Native American identity, ethnic stereotypes,
the commodification of Native American culture, and all related issues,
can take place. The issue of cultural property includes both real property,
the land, the burials, the "ruins", etc., and intellectual property,
the writings, the languages, the images, the culture itself. The site
explores the question of where is the line to be drawn between
people seriously trying to learn about Native cultures and those stealing
the culture and perverting it for their own ends? (Quotes from
A Line in the Sand homepage).
URL: http://www.nativeweb.org/
NativeWeb is an international, nonprofit, educational organization
dedicated to using telecommunications including computer technology
and the Internet to disseminate information from and about indigenous
nations, peoples, and organizations around the world; to foster communication
between native and non-native peoples; to conduct research involving
indigenous peoples' usage of technology and the Internet; and to provide
resources, mentoring, and services to facilitate indigenous peoples'
use of this technology. NativeWeb features over forty hosted sites of
native and indigenous peoples, communities, and individuals. (Quotes
from NativeWeb homepage).
URL: http://www.beadsland.com/nacirema/
The Nacirema are a North American group living in the territory between
the Canadian Cree, the Yaqui and Tarahumare of Mexico, and the Carib
and Arawak of the Antilles. Little is known of their origin, although
tradition states that they came from the east. (Quote from Nacirema
page).
URL: http://www.loc.gov/folklife/other.html
This Library of Congress Internet Resources Page is a collection
of Resources in Anthropology, Ethnomusicology, Folklore, and Folklife.
The Library of Congress provides a disclaimer that : "Unless
otherwise noted, the sites listed in this directory are provided by
organizations other than the Library of Congress. These links are
being offered as a convenience and for informational purposes only;
they do not constitute an endorsement or an approval by the Library
of Congress…." This well organized site covers a wide range
of resources and is easily navigated.
URL: http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/homs/
These web pages are intended to refute creationist claims that there
is no evidence for human evolution. To do this, it is first necessary
to summarize the current thinking about human evolution and the fossil
evidence supporting it. If you are not interested in creationism,
you can read only those pages. If you are only interested in creationism,
you can skip to the pages on creationist arguments; they will contain
links to the fossils under discussion when necessary. (Quote from
author Jim Foley's Introduction).
URL: http://www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/troufs/anth1602/
Prehistoric Cultures is designed by Jim Belote & Tim Roufs
for a survey course at the University of Minnesota at Duluth focusing
on the origin and development of extinct and living human beings and
their immediate predecessors. Prehistoric Cultures broadly explores
the nature, origin, and development of humans and other hominids from
their earliest beginnings to the advent of ancient civilizations.
URL: http://wings.buffalo.edu/anthropology/anthroglobe/
AnthroGlobe is an initiative to broaden professional
electronic communication in Anthropology. (Quote from AnthroGlobe
homepage). AnthroGlobe is a highly experimental interactive Web
Journal, that invites readers to comment on and discuss papers therein.
The producers' goal is to offer an online publishing format that supports
many muti-media applications.
URL: http://www.tamu.edu/anthropology/news.html
The Anthropology in the News site from Texas A&M University links
to anthropology-related news stories published on the web by ABC,
CNN, USA Today, Washington Post, Nando, Archaeology, university press
releases and other sources. Links on the Breaking News page go back
approximately one month, and an archive is included. The archive goes
back a few months and is divided into Archaeology, Bioanthropology,
Socio/Cultural Anthropology, and Linguistics.
URL: http://www.archaeology.org/
Archaeology is an official publication of the Archaeological
Institute of America (see separate link under Professional Associations).
The Archaeology site includes the complete table of contents
of the print version with links to select articles and news features
that are available in an online version. Archaeology Online
includes some essays and features that are not in the print version.
There is also an archive; a list of older news and feature stories
from Archaeology Online.
URL: http://www.anth.ucsb.edu/glossary/index2.html
Find definitions of archaeology, cultural anthropology, and physical
anthropology terms. Authors John Kantner and Kevin Vaughn consulted
several reference books in creating this site at University of California
at Santa Barbara. Each time you go to the site you get a "definition
of the moment" randomly selected from the glossary.
URL:
http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/cgi-bin/uncgi/Search_AI/search_bib_ai/anthind
The Anthropological Index, which appears in paper four times a year,
is a regionally arranged subject and author index to periodicals received
by The Library of the Department of Ethnography of the British
Museum (Museum of Mankind). The Library's holdings cover
all areas of cultural and social anthropology, ethnography and material
culture, from mainstream theoretical journals to specialist
interest publications. Entries are compiled
from more than 750 journals. The Index covers articles
in all languages, and provides English translations of citations from
non-Roman scripts and from smaller languages. The full Anthropological
Index for the published volumes 22-32 (through 1997) is available
online. New data is being added on a continuing basis and this
is only available online. The online data is being regularly updated.
Note: When searching, if you do not know which year to look in, you
must select all of them - to search for all possible years; if nothing
is specified it will automatically search files from the 1990s.
URL: http://wings.buffalo.edu/anthropology/ARD/
ARD is a fully searchable, database
of reviews of anthropological books, audiovisual materials,
software & multimedia, exhibits, tourist sites, conferences, and
on-line resources. 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. ARD
reviews are published individually, as soon as they clear the editorial
process. Documents are housed in an online database where they can
be accessed at any time. (Quotes from ARD homepage).
URL: http://www.cast.uark.edu/other/nps/nadb/
The National Archeological Database is a computerized communications
network for the archeological and historic preservation community--is
an internationally recognized source of information on public archeology.
NADB ("Nad-Bee") was established to meet a congressional directive
to improve access to information on archeological activities nationwide.
The site includes a bibliographic inventory of approximately 240,000
reports on archeological planning and investigation and a graphical
application which contains a variety of maps showing national distributions
of cultural and environmental resources across the U.S. by state and
county levels. (Quotes from NADB homepage).
URL:http://www.aaanet.org/committees/ethics/toc.htm
This special publication #23 of the American Anthropological Association,
edited by Joan Cassell and Sue-Ellen Jacobs, now available online,
contains materials related to ethical issues in Anthropological fieldwork
and is divided into sections including: Cases and Solutions and Cases
and Comments.
URL: http://www.umanitoba.ca/faculties/arts/anthropology/kintitle.html
Brian Schwimmer of the University of Manitoba's Anthropology
Department has created a great online tutorial on Kinship and Social
Organizations including sections on Kin Fundamentals, Systems of Descent,
Kinship Terminology and Marriage Systems. He also offers sections
on particular ethnographic groups and details their kinship systems.
In addition to being very interesting and informative, this site is
beautifully designed and well organized.
URL: http://www.anth.ucsb.edu/links/pages/
This collection of links comes from the Anthropology Department
of University of California at Santa Barbara. Scroll through a
list of sites or take a shortcut to a category listing (such as Cultural
Anthropology) or geographic area.
URL: http://home.worldnet.fr/~clist/Anthro/index.html
This is a comprehensive list of Internet Resources which are directly
and primarily of anthropological relevance; in order to retain manageability,
sites which only tangentially deal with anthropology, such as native
issues, "primitive art", history, etc. are not included. This thorough
site is maintained by Bernard-Olivier Clist.
If you have questions comments or suggestions about this page, contact
a librarian.
Last Updated 05/24/01
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