Selected World Wide Web Sites for:
CLASSIC EDITION SOURCES: Anthropology,
First Edition
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General Internet Sites for Anthropology
This is the site of the American Anthropological Association. It contains links to just about every anthropological resource imaginable on the Internet.
This is an excellent starting point for anthropological resources of every sort, using links.
This site is compiled by students in IndianaUniversity’s Anthropology Department. It contains links relevant to the various subfields of Anthropology, changes in anthropological perspective over time, and biographies of certain key anthropologists.
This is an excellent source for the latest news, with weekly updates, in anthropology. It is maintained by the Texas A&M anthropology department. Articles may be retrieved without a fee.
The goals of Intute: Anthropology, the sponsor of this site, is to match resources to the anthropology curriculum and the needs of researchers. It has links to every type of anthropological interest.
This is an online library of the social sciences with anthropology being a major subject area. For a subscription fee, one can find anthropological texts from books, journals, magazines, newspapers and encyclopedias. It provides a personal “bookshelf,” allows one to organize work into separate “projects” and, in many ways, facilitates research.
This UR-List: Web Resources for Visual Anthropology provides searches by cross-indexing 375 anthropological sites according to 22 subject categories.
This site contains over 850 biographies of people who have influenced anthropology in some way, including many authors in this book.
A searchable database of anthropological texts.
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
Chapter 1
As one of WashingtonStateUniversity’s learning modules, this is a good introduction to the concept of culture as defined and discussed by anthropologists, past and present. It is a work-in-progress that deserves to be monitored.
This site has a searchable database of anthropological texts, and a dictionary which defines key anthropological terms and identifies anthropologists with their theoretical perspectives and publications.
The American Society for Ethnohistory(ASE) was founded in 1954 to promote the interdisciplinary investigation of the histories of the Native Peoples of the Americas.
Chapter 2
This site contains images of daily life in the Trobriand Islands. They were taken during the period of 1914-1918, at the time Bronislaw Malinowski was there doing fieldwork.
This site provides a general description of the Yanomamo along with photographs.
Part of an ongoing investigation of the Tierney/Chagnon case by the Dartmouth Review.
This site, which in part consists of an interview with Napoleon Chagnon, presents a discussion of Chagnon’s conflicts with the Salesian missionaries of Venezuela, with other anthropologists such as Kenneth Good (author of Into the Heart) and with Patrick Tierney (author of Darkness in El Dorado, a thoroughgoing criticism of Chagnon’s work among the Yanomamo).
Chapter 3
The Institute for Intercultural Studies was established by Margaret Mead and is today directed by her daughter Mary Catherine Bates. With links, it promotes accessibility to Mead’s work as well as that of several of her associates, including Franz Boas, Ruth Benedict and Gregory Bateson.
The Center for Anthropology and Science Communications facilitates improved communications between anthropologists, the public, and science media.
Chapter 4
This is a good introduction to the subject of linguistics and includes related websites.
This site provides links to linguistic associations, journals and links to websites and data bases dedicated to the preservation and study of languages.
This is the site of the International Communication Association, which sponsors conferences and publishes books and journals having to do with cross-cultural communication.
The site is the gateway for links to all other sites having to do with nonverbal behavior and communication. Site includes links to publications, research centers, experiments, and conferences.
This is the website of the Center for Nonverbal Studies, dedicated to the development of a deeper understanding of what it means to be human through the study of nonverbal communication.
Chapter 5
With maps, photographs and links, this website offers descriptions of the desert, the vegetation, the animals and the people who have lived in the Kalahari
This site contains good summaries of subsistence practices, from foraging to intensive agriculture, as well as the effects of the consequent increases in such areas population, warfare and disease. There are also related websites cited.
Chapter 6
This is a good cross-cultural survey of marriage customs, residence rules and the treatment of homosexuality. Related websites are included.
Marriage customs are summarized for every region of the world.
As part of the United Nations system, Women Watch serves as a conduit for information and resources on the promotion of gender equality and empowerment throughout the world.
This site nicely summarizes the kinship and social relations within Yanomamo society.
Chapter 7
This site deals with the various aspects of folk religion and magic, along with related internet links.
This site offers links having to do with shamanic healing.
Chapter 8
Website provides links to a variety of subject areas such as witchcraft accusations and trials, folk religion and magic.
This site offers resources on religious cults, sects, religions and doctrines, including cargo cults.
Chapter 9
The Center for World Indigenous Studies is seeking to create a virtual historical archive relating to the human rights struggles of indigenous peoples. Links are organized geographically.
Cultural Survival, in addition to publishing its quarterly magazine, provides important links to documents and organizations relating to protecting the human rights of indigenous peoples.
This site offers directories, limited area search engines and searchable databases in relation to human rights worldwide.
This site presents articles, opinions and discussions revolving around the indigenous rights movement in the Pacific.
The Instituto Socioambiental (ISA) was established in 1994 and has taken as its mission the support of traditional peoples in their struggles for social and environmental rights.
Chapter 10
This is the official website of the Society for Medical Anthropology, a branch of the American Anthropological Association. In keeping with its goal of promoting the study of the anthropological aspects of health, illness and health care, it offers links to relevant medical organizations, academic programs, publications, conferences and other medical anthropology websites.
This site provides an overview of how illness is traditionally perceived and treated in various cultures of the world and provides related Internet sites.
This website has been set up to disseminate information on psychological aspects of proxemic behavior.
The European Society of Ethnopharmacology represents more than 1500 specialists, including medical doctors, pharmacologists, botanists, anthropologists and historians of medicine and pharmacy whose common interests are medicinal plants, traditional pharmacopoeias and medical anthropology.
Chapter 11
As a branch of the American Anthropological Association, the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology supports workshops, lectures and publications having to do with issues of contemporary importance in the fields of political and legal anthropology, such as nationalism, colonialism and post-colonial public spheres, multiculturalism, and globalism.
This is the site of the Society for Applied Anthropology, which has as its mission the promotion of interdisciplinary scientific investigation of the relations between human beings and the application of these principles to practical problems. It is affiliated with the American Anthropological Association
This is the site of the MurrayResearchCenter, which promotes the use of existing social science data to explore human development in the context of social change.
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