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The Centre for Social Anthropology and Computing Online Publications
University of Kent at Canterbury
"This page provides access to full-text readings that are available on the CSAC web site. It provides a single point of access to material that is available at different points of our web server as parts of different projects."

American Indian Ethnobotany Database - (dead link)
Foods, Drugs, Dyes, and Fibers of Native North American Peoples
By Dan Meorman, Dept. of Anthropology, University of Michigan.

AnthroGlobe (ejournal)
Online journal "to broaden professional electronic communication in Anthropology."

Anthromorphemics: Anthropology Glossary - (dead link)
- Department of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara.

AnthroNotes - (dead link) (ejournal)
Museum of Natural History Publication for Educators
- Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution

Anthropoetics: The Electronic Journal of Generative Anthropology (ejournal)

Anthropology and Archaeology Pages
Sections include: Paleoanthropology ; Linguistics ; Archaeogeodesy ; Archaeology: The Andes, Mesoamerica, The Southwest, Rock Art.
Essays by James Q. Jacobs

Anthropology Biography Web
"This biography web has been developed by the anthropology students 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."

Anthropology of Food (AOF) - (dead link) (ejournal)
"AOF is a bilingual academic journal in French and English.It aims to publish results of latest research in Sociology and Anthropology of Food."

The Anthropology Review Database (ARD)
"ARD will rapidly become an extensive and fully searchable database of reviews of anthropological books, films & videos, audio recordings, software & multimedia, and on-line resources."

Anthropology Tutorials
Includes 16 physical (biological) anthropology and 7 cultural (social) anthropology online tutorials.
Behavioral Sciences Dept., Palomar College

Bibliographies for Anthropological Research
"The on-line bibliographies are provided as a public service of the Tennessee Archaeology Net maintained by Dr. Kevin Smith at Middle Tennessee State University. Provision of these bibliographies does require substantial disk space, and they will only be maintained if their use and citation justifies."
From Tennessee Archaeology Net

California Academy of Sciences - Dept. of Anthropology

  • Collection Database
    "Current strengths of the collection are general 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....The database includes digital images of collection objects. Currently there are over 7,000 images available, documenting the areas of strength in the collection. Digital photographing of the remainder of the collection is an on-going project."
  • Native Alaskan Graphic Arts: Founding Artists
    "Artistic traditions among Alaska's native people span many centuries, but flat two-dimensional drawings intended to be hung on a wall are a product of the 20th Century. Beginning in the 1930s, several Inupiat artists began recording scenes of traditional arctic life on tanned seal and caribou skins. This exhibit features works by several of these artists, including George Ahgupuk, Robert Mayokok, Kivetoruk Moses, and Florence Nupok Malewotkuk."

Camping with the Sioux
Fieldwork Diary of Alice Cunningham Fletcher
"The following text is based on two journals kept by Alice Fletcher during a six-week venture into Plains Indian territory in 1881."
National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Country Studies-Area Handbooks
"A continuing series of books prepared by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress under the Country Studies/Area Handbook Program sponsored by the Department of the Army. This online series presently contains studies of 85 countries."

Demographic Research
A free, expedited, peer-reviewed journal of the population sciences.
Published by the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research

Digital South Asia Library (DSAL)
"The Digital South Asia Library is a global collaborative effort to make important and rare resources available to the international community. DSAL includes resources from many disciplines as well as a variety of data types. The component parts of the project include maps, statistics, bibliographies, union lists, indexes, photographs, books and journals, as well as a reference collection that is strong in pedagogical tools for South Asian language learning."
Project of the Center for Research Libraries

  • Hensley Photograph Archive
    "The Hensley Collection is comprised of photographs taken during World War II by an American serviceman, Glenn S. Hensley. The photographs, numbering almost 600, were given to the University of Chicago Library by the photographer. The text accompanying the images comes from notes written by Mr. Hensley...The images include a rich array of photographs taken in urban Calcutta in 1943-44 by Mr. Glenn Hensley, a professional photographer working on surveillance of the Japanese in Burma for the U.S. Army. During his off-duty time he used his ethnographer's eye to capture daily life in a number of locations around India. The majority of the images are from Calcutta and surrounding environs. Other locations including in this collection include Madras, Kharagpur, Agra, and Burma..."

The Edge: The E-Journal of Intercultural Relations - (dead link)

Ethnologie
 French language database of over 7500 ethnologically important objects representing 10 French museums.
"L'ensemble de cette base regroupe des objets , ainsi que des documents iconographiques (peintures, dessins, estampes,cartes postales, tirages photographiques, plaques de verre...) axÈs sur l'Ethnologie (mais aussi, ‡ plus long terme, sur les sciences et techniques). Ce catalogue s'enrichit rÈguliËtemernt gr‚ce aux informations (notices et images) fournies par les musÈes."

Ethnologies comparÈes
 Revue en ligne du CERCE (Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches Comparatives en Ethnologie)

The Ethnologue Database
"The Ethnologue is a catalogue of more than 6,700 languages spoken in 228 countries. The Ethnologue Name Index lists over 39,000 language names, dialect names, and alternate names. The Ethnologue Language Family Index organizes languages according to language families."
Barbara F. Grimes, Editor; 13th ed., 1996

Fourth World Documentation Project - (dead link)
Includes an extensive collection of archives
Center for World Indigenous Studies

Global Jurist Frontiers

  • What is Missing? (Female Genital Surgeries - Infibulation, Excision, Clitoridectomy - in Eritrea)
    By Lyda Favali - Vol.1:No. 2 (2001)
    "This article investigates female genital surgery in Eritrea (FGS). It places the practice within a broad, multidisciplinary context. After classifying different forms of surgery, I discuss the current situation using a survey and historical anthropological accounts. I then examine the explanations given for the practice and finally analyze the internal legal and political debate surrounding FGS."

In and Out of the Collective: - (dead link)
Papers on Former Soviet Bloc Rural Communities
"...is an on-line journal, issued by the Bulgarian Society for Regional Cultural Studies. Its aim is to present current research in the countries of the former Soviet Bloc relating to the process of adaptation of rural communities to the realities of transition to a market economy in a capitalist-like society."
Institute for Anthropological Field Research at the New Bulgarian University

Journal E: Real Stories From Planet Earth - (dead link)

Journal E: Interviews 50 cents - (dead link) " Producer Ray Farkas and reporter Alex Chadwick (sometime NPR correspondent) had a simple idea: they traveled around the country with a card table, a couple of chairs, and a sign that read "Interviews 50 Cents" The result is a collection of interviews with ordinary folks that are at times funny, sad, inspirational, and moving, but always real. At this highly recommended site, provided by Journal E (see the April 7, 2000 _Scout Report_), visitors can view the first of four QuickTime films of these interviews. Entitled _Uptown, Downtown, Out of Town_, the film features a series of interviews in and around Washington, DC. Future segments, to be released in roughly two-week intervals, will be _Along the Seashore_, _Indiana State Fair_, and _Key West_. [MD]"
"From The Scout Report [04/28/00], Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2000. http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/

Journal of Political Ecology - (dead link)

Journal of World-Systems Research - (dead link)

Kacike: Journal of Caribbean Amerindian History and Anthropology

M/C - A Journal of Media and Culture - (dead link)

Margaret Mead: Human Nature and the Power of Culture
"...presents a selection of materials from its extensive Mead collection, which came to the Library after her death. The corpus of notes and other field materials that Mead preserved are available to scholars interested in evaluating and building on her research. Totaling more than 500,000 items, the Margaret Mead Papers and South Pacific Ethnographic Archives is one of the largest collections for a single individual in the Library. The collection includes manuscripts, diaries, letters, field notes, drawings, prints, photographs, sound recordings, and film. For this exhibition, items have been selected from the collection to document major themes in Mead's life and work."
- Library of Congress Exhibition


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Minnesota State University E-Museum - (dead link)
Their extensive exhibit sections include History ; Biology ; Cultures ; Prehistory ; Archaeology.
Minnesota State University, Mankato

National Park Service History - Publications in Anthropology

  • Confinement and Ethnicity
    An Overview of World War II Japanese American Relocation Sites
    Publications in Anthropology 74 1999 (rev. July 2000)
    Sections include: Essay ; Brief History ; Gila River ; Granada ; Heart Mountain ; Jerome ; Manzanar ; Minidoka ; Poston ; Rohwer ; Topaz ; Tule Lake ; Isolation Centers ; Isolation Centers ; Additional Facilities ; Assembly Centers ; Prisons

Native American Ethnobotany
"A Database of Foods, Drugs, Dyes and Fibers of Native American Peoples, Derived from Plants."
By Dan Moerman, University of Michigan-Dearborn

Native American Repatriation & Reburial: A Bibliography
Compiled by Barb Bocek, Dept. of Archaeology, Stanford University

New Media and Information Technology in the Middle East - (dead link)

  • Working Papers - (dead link)
    • The Riddle of Ramadan: Media, Consumer Culture and the 'Christmas-ization' of a Muslim Holiday - (dead link)
      Paper delivered at the American Anthropological Association, November 2000.
      By Walter Armbrust, Georgetown University

Nonverbal Dictionary of Gestures, Signs & Body Language Cues
"Items in this Dictionary have been researched by anthropologists, archaeologists, biologists, linguists, psychiatrists, psychologists, semioticians, and others who have studied human communication from a scientific point of view."
By David B. Givens

Office of Tribal Justice

  • Executive Order No. 13007 on Indian Sacred Sites - (dead link) (05/24/96)

[Photos] Places of Peace and Power
The Sacred Site Pilgrimage of Martin gray
"This web site discusses Martin's pilgrimage journeys, features many of his photographs and writings, lists calendar details of upcoming slide shows, gives information regarding book and photograph orders, and has links to related sites."
Sections include: Asia ; Europe ; Middle East ; Americas ; Africa.

Revealing Bodies
"Visual images have helped us observe, describe, and conceptualize the human body over the centuries. In conjunction with the Exploratorium's upcoming Revealing Bodies exhibition, this Web site looks at how imagery has changed the way we look at our bodies, drawing from many times and cultures."

The Royal Anthropological Institute
"...is the worldís longest-established scholarly association dedicated to the furtherance of anthropology (the study of humankind) in its broadest and most inclusive sense."

  • Film Library Catalogue - (dead link)
    Edited by Margaret Wilson

Tending the Commons: Folklife and Landscape in Southern West Virginia
"...incorporates 679 excerpts from original sound recordings and 1,256 photographs from the American Folklife Center's Coal River Folklife Project (1992-99) documenting traditional uses of the mountains in Southern West Virginia's Big Coal River Valley...The online collection includes extensive interviews on native forest species and the seasonal round of traditional harvesting...and documents community cultural events such as storytelling, baptisms in the river, cemetery customs, and the spring "ramp" feasts using the wild leek native to the region. Interpretive texts outline the social, historical, economic, environmental, and cultural contexts of community life, while a series of maps and a diagram depicting the seasonal round of community activities provide special access to collection materials
- American Memory, Library of Congress

Theoretical Anthropology - (dead link)

University of California, Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE

World Bank

Women Who Censor - (dead link) "Pornography is controversial because sex is controversial. And women, despite the utopian idea of universal sisterhood, have never been united on these issues.
Index on Censorship untangles the disagreements and cultural differences over sex and violence, the right to abortion, wearing the veil, and confronts the women who believe in censorship as a means of protecting themselves, their daughters and their culture."
Cover story: Index on Censorship, Issue 2, 2000

Yale Journal of Student Anthropology - (dead link)
"is a student-produced journal of the Yale Anthropology Society that was founded for the exchange of ideas among anthropology students. The Journal publishes student work of exceptional research and originality in three issues per year."

Academic Discussion Lists

Anthro-L
Archives of the listserv from 1993-

H-SAE - The Society for the Anthropology of Europe (SAE)





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