Subject Guide » Anthropology

General Sites

Title: Anthro.Net
Description:
http://www.anthro.net/ This search engine "queries a database of over 40,000 reviewed web sites." Results are listed in order of relevance and provide a description. It also offers a table of contents to selected readings.

Title: Anthropology Resources on the Internet
Description:
http://www.aaanet.org/resinet.htm
The American Anthropological Association's list. "Lists only a few of the largest and up-to-date sites with links to anthropology resources on the Internet."

Title: Internet Resources in Anthropology
Description:
http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/su/anthro/antweb.html
A list of anthropology links from The University of Chicago.

Title: National Anthropological Archives
Description:
http://www.nmnh.si.edu/naa/index.htm
The NAA collects anthropological materials that document the world's cultures and the history of the discipline and is an excellent source for photographs and archival research. Each entry in their online Guide to the Collections includes title, biographical data or administrative history, type of documents, description of contents.

Title: Social Science Search Engine (SOSIG)
Description:
http://sosig.ac.uk/
This Social Science Gateway from the United Kingdom "aims to provide a trusted source of selected, high quality Internet information for students,academics, researchers and practitioners in the social sciences, business and law. It is part of the UK Resource Discovery Network. My Account lets users customize SOSIG.

Title: Voice of the Shuttle
Description: http://vos.ucsb.edu/index.asp
Offering Internet humanities resources, this site by a UC/Santa Barbara professor is well-maintained and organized. It has sections for both archaeology and anthropology.

American Indians

Title: American Indian Resources
Description:
http://cobalt.lang.osaka-u.ac.jp/~krkvls/naindex.html
Annotated links to resources in Native American Studies.

Title: American Indians of the Pacific Northwest--American Memory Project
Description:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award98/wauhtml/aipnhome.html Over 2,300 photographs and 7,700 pages of text on Indians of the Pacific Northwest from the Library of Congress's American Memory Project.

Archaeology

Title: ArchNet: WWW Virtual Library--Archaeology
Description:
http://archnet.asu.edu/
Coverage includes academic departments & programs, museums & research facilities, electronic journals, publishers, newsgroups, and listservs. "Regional Views" has lists of archaeological resources on specific geographic areas.

Central & South America

Title: Ancient Mesoamerican Civilizations
Description:
http://www.angelfire.com/ca/humanorigins/
"Among the topics in this extensive study of Aztec, Maya, Mixtec, and Zapotec cultures are history, archaeology, political organization, mathematics, writing systems, religion, and legends."

Cultural Anthropology

Title: Experience Rich Anthropology
Description:
http://era.anthropology.ac.uk
This site from the University of Kent offers original case study materials and analysis for groups and villages from the collection of General Pitt Rivers, including materials from Africa, Turkey, Italy, India, and Poland. Constantly updated.

Title: Kinship and Social Organization: An Interactive Tutorial
Description: http://www.umanitoba.ca/faculties/arts/anthropology/kintitle.html Covers kin fundamentals, systems of descent, marriage systems, and residence rules and provides five ethnographic examples.

Human Origins

Title: Becoming Human: Paleoanthropology, Evolution, and Human Origins
Description: http://www.becominghuman.org/ From Arizona State University's Institute for Human Origins directed by Donald C. Johanson, this site includes a documentary film, recent paleo news stories, expert views, and resources.

Title: Human Origins Program: In Search of What Makes Us Human
Description: http://www.mnh.si.edu/anthro/humanorigins/ A tour of the current state of human paleontology featuring a hypertext family tree of early human phylogeny. This Smithsonian site also offers professional articles published in the field in the last 3 years. Also has an email a paleontologist feature.

News

Title: Anthropology in the News
Description: http://www.tamu.edu/anthropology/news.html This site from Texas A&M features frequently updated links to anthropology news stories. "Some services require that you register . . . but none charges a fee."

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