Research Resources:
Subject Research Guides:
Anthropology:
Internet Resources: Selected List
Libraries and Research Institutions
The American Folklife Center
The American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress was created by
Congress in 1976 "to preserve and present American Folklife." The Center
incorporates the Archive of Folk Culture, which was established at the
Library in 1928 as a repository for American Folk Music. The Center and
its collections have grown to encompass all aspects of folklore and
folklife from this country and around the world.
Archives of Traditional Music
Is the largest university-based ethnographic sound archive in the United
States. Its holdings cover a wide range of cultural and geographical
areas.
California Academy of Sciences
Department of Anthropology at the California Academy of Sciences.
Duke University Anthropology collection
Department and Museum of Social Anthropology. University of Oslo
The Ethnographic Museum is part of the Institute and Museum of Anthropology, University of Oslo.
Digital South Asia Library
A project of the Center for Research Libraries, providing access to reference sources, images, maps, statistics, bibliographies and union lists, indexes, books and journals, and other Internet resources.
Fourth World Institute
The Fourth World Institute offers advanced studies in government, geopolitics, history, philosophy, culture and the environment from the perspective of Fourth World peoples.
The George and Mary Foster Anthropology Library at Berkeley
The George and Mary Foster Anthropology Library, functions as part of
the larger Anthropology complex which includes the Department of
Anthropology, the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, the
Archaeological Research Facility, and the Folklore Archives.
Anthropological inquiry at Berkeley is enhanced by other campus
facilities including the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology and the Museum of
Paleontology.
Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology (Oxford University)
The largest graduate anthropology department in the UK.
DUMA University of Denver Anthropology Museum
This Museum teaches about the research, care, administration and public interpretation of archaeological and ethnographic collections including both objects and records. Online master's exibits are also available.
Hudson Museum University of Maine
The Hudson Museum's exhibits explore Anthropology as the study of humans and their reliance on culture.
Featured in the Museum galleries are exhibits about the native cultures of the Pacific Northwest Coast,
American Southwest, Northeastern Woodlands, and the Arctic, as well as those of Papua New Guinea,
Panama, and Africa. The Hudson Museum houses one of the finest collections of Prehispanic Mexican and
Central American artifacts in the United States. This web site also has virtual exhibits.
KITLV Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies
KITLV library aims to optimize access to its collections in a number of
ways. Apart from the catalogue with its many search options, through the
Southeast Asian Serials Index (SASI) it also provides access to articles
published in over 100 journals. It also contains some digital texts.
National Anthropological Archives
The National Anthropological Archives collects and preserves historical and contemporary anthropological materials that document the world's cultures and the history of the discipline. Its collections represent the four fields of anthropology – ethnology, linguistics, archaeology, and physical anthropology – and include manuscripts, fieldnotes, correspondence, photographs, maps, sound recordings, film and video created by Smithsonian anthropologists and other preeminent scholars.
Quipu is dedicated to researchers of Andean archeology
A portal with information devoted to the Andean region. Developed by the San Diego State University.
Society for Applied Anthropology
Founded in 1941 to promote the investigation of the principles of human behavior and the application of these principles to contemporary issues and problems.
Wisconsin National Primate Research Center
The Primate Center conducts basic research in primate biology.
Journals and Periodicals
Arte Rupestre/Web en America Latina
Site specializing in rock art and
archaeology in Latin America. Contains articles, maps, images, and many links.
In Spanish, though some of the sites it links to are in English.
antropologiavisual
Thorough and well-designed on-line journal of visual anthropology published at the
Universidad Academia de Humanismo Cristiano (Chile). In Spanish.
Reference Sources and Databases
Anthropology in the News (Texas A&M)
Links to current events and news in the fields of Archaeology, Bioanthropology,
Socio/Cultural Anthropology and Linguistics.
Archaeology: World Atlas
Arranged by country, this database provides information on
distant corners of the world, who is doing research there, and where there are
departments of anthropology, history, or archaeology.
Bibliografia Mesoamericana
On-line bibliographic dataset of the published
literature pertaining to the anthropology of Mesoamerica. The coverage includes books,
edited volumes, festschrifts, journal articles, essays in collected works,
dissertations and theses, obituaries, and audio-visual materials pertaining to
Mesoamerica. This is a project of the Library of the Museum of Anthropology and
Archaeology at the University of Pennsylvania and the Foundation for the
Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies, Inc.
Pictures of Record
Scholarly slide sets of archaeological sites and artifacts, techniques of
archaeology, and ethnographic subjects, as well as reproductions of stone tools.
Maxwell Museum of Anthropology Online
Organizations and Directories
American Anthropological Association
The world's largest organization of individuals interested in anthropology.
The Field Museum
The Field Museum was incorporated in the State of Illinois on September 16, 1893
to house the biological and anthropological collections assembled for the World's
Columbian Exposition of 1893.
United Nations
Special Projects
AHDS Archaeology
AHDS Archaeology supports research, learning and teaching with high quality and dependable digital resources.
It does this by preserving digital data in the long term, and by promoting and
disseminating a broad range of data in archaeology. The AHDS promotes good practice
in the use of digital data in archaeology, it provides technical advice to the research
community, and supports the deployment of digital technologies.
AHDS Literature, Languages and Linguistics
Collects, documents, preserves and promotes the use of digital resources to support
research and teaching within the disciplines of literature, languages, and linguistics.
Provides advice and support to digital data creators and users.
Anthropology of German Studies
Homepage for an informal network of anthropologists whose research is focused on German-speaking countries and on the German diaspora, including a working bibliography on the ethnography of Germany.
The Centre for Social Anthropology and Computing
The major role of CSAC has been in promoting, supporting and initiating anthropological research which benefits from computer-based methods. The research which has been done followed the research interests already existing in the department: historical anthropology, kinship and social organisation, economic
anthropology, cognitive anthropology, visual anthropology, ethnobiology and environmental anthropology.
Index of languages of the world.
Native American Constitution and Law Digitization Project
This Project is a cooperative effort among the University of Oklahoma Law Center, the National Indian Law Library (NILL), and Native American tribes providing access to the Constitutions, Tribal Codes, and other legal documents.
Tay Project
The TAY (Archeological Settlements of Turkey) Project has been designed to build a chronological inventory of findings about the cultural heritage of Turkey.
Books and Publishing
ARD-The Anthropology Review Database
A fully searchable database of reviews covering the entire gamut of anthropological publications, including books, audiovisual materials, software & multimedia, exhibits, tourist sites, conferences, and on-line resources.
Country Studies: The Library of Congress
On-line versions of The Country Studies Series books. The series presents a description and analysis of the historical setting and the social, economic, political, and national security systems and institutions of countries throughout the world and examines the interrelationships of those systems and the ways they are shaped by cultural factors.
Other Guides to Internet Resources
WWW Virtual Library - Anthropology
A very large directory of reviewed web sites.
Index of journals and other publications on anthropology in Latin American and the Iberian peninsula
Site is in Spanish as are most of the publications it links.
El Rincon del Antropologo
A resource for anthropologists studying Latin America and the Iberian peninsula. Primarily devoted to cultural anthropology. In Spanish.
Anthropology section of the Latin American Network Information Center
Links to on-line resources for anthropology and archaeology in Latin America. Text available in English, Spanish, and Portuguese.
