Cultural Anthropology Links
General
- American Ethnological Association
(AES) is the oldest professional anthropological organization in the
United States. Founded in 1842 to encourage research in the emerging field
of ethnology, its stated goal was to foster "inquiries generally connected
with the human race."
- Ethnographics Gallery of the Centre
for Social Anthropology and Computing, University of Kent. This is
the oldest site for Anthropologists on the Internet, and includes pointers
to some of our research projects, a growing list of resources we have developed
(Bibliography with 12000+ references, UK Theses abstracts index, sample chapters
(and a few whole works) from the CSAC Monographs series, and a virtual collection
of Macintosh, Windows, MSDOS and unix software of interest to anthropologists.
- Anthro TECH. Features web services
and provides resources for anthropologists of all sub-disciplines and students
of anthropology. The site features an anthropological database that has over
2,800 Internet Resources that are categorized, cross-referenced, and searchable.
- American Folklife Center. A division of the Library of Congress.
- The Human Relations Area Files (HRAF)
HRAF produces two major collections (the HRAF Collection of Ethnography and
the HRAF Collection of Archaeology), encyclopedias, and other resources for
teaching and research.
- Kinship
and Social Organization, an interactive tutorial from Brian Schwimmer,
University of Manitoba.
- Society for Economic Anthropology, a group of anthropologists, economists, geographers, and scholars from other disciplines who are interested in the connections between economics and social life.
- Society for Visual Anthropology, a section of the AAA.
- The Center for Ethnomusicology. Founded in 1967 by Professor Willard Rhodes and Professor Nicholas England as "The Center for Studies in Ethnomusicology,"
Geographically Specific
- Association for Africanist Anthropology,
the section of the AAA devoted to African Studies.
- The African Studies Association
was founded in 1957 as a non-profit organization open to all individuals and
institutions interested in African affairs. Its mission is to bring together
people with a scholarly and professional interest in Africa.
- Latin American Studies
Association (LASA), "LASA's mission is to foster intellectual
discussion, research, and teaching on Latin America, the Caribbean, and its
people throughout the Americas.
- Association of Latina and Latino Anthropologists.
A section of the AAA devoted to Latin American Studies.
- The Society for East
Asian Anthropology (SEAA) is an officially recognized section within
the American Anthropological Association (AAA).
- ASAO Association for Social Anthropology
in Oceania."
- Society for the Anthropology
of Europe.
- The Society for the Anthropology
of North America SANA, a section
of the AAA.
- Arctic Circle.
The peoples and environment of the Arctic and Subarctic region. Includes a
"virtual classroom" for high school, college, and university students wishing
to learn more about the North, its peoples, and its environment.
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