This page contains a list of several anthropological web sites that I have used or plan to use to facilitate learning outside of the classroom. If you have any suggestions for additions to this list, please contact me.

Tools and Materials

• Mesoweb Mesoweb is a site dedicated to the exploration of Mesoamerican cultures, including those of the Maya, Aztec and Olmec. The site includes information on recent archaeological digs, interviews with anthropologists and scientists and much more.
• Kinship and Social Organization: An Interactive Tutorial Kinship and Social Organization is an interactive tutorial maintained by Brian Schwimmer at the University of Manitoba, Canada. The tutorial focuses on kin fundamentals, systems of descent, kinship terminology and marriage systems, and features several ethnographic examples, including Yanomamo of the Amazon forest, the Akan of West Africa and the Dani of New Guinea.
• Africa Focus: The Sights and Sounds of a Continent Africa Focus: The Sights and Sounds of a Continent is maintained on the website of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries. It contains digitized visual images and sounds of Africa contributed over the years to the African Studies Program of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. These digital files are stored in an accessible database and provided for personal use or educational presentations. The site contains the digital representations of more than 3000 slides, 500 photographs, and 50 hours of sound from forty-five different countries.
• Expeditions: 150 Years of Smithsonian Research in Latin America Expeditions: 150 Years of Smithsonian Research in Latin America is an online exhibit from the Smithsonian Institution dealing with United States exploration of Latin America. Over the past century and a half, Smithsonian scientists have found a fertile field for collaborative research and exploration in Latin America. Expeditions offers a window on the complex and rich relations among scientists throughout the Americas.
• Collapse: Why do Civilizations Fall? Collapse: Why Do Civilizations Fall? is an online exhibit which explores the fall of historical civilizations through four examples: the ancient Maya, Mesopotamia, the Anasazi, and the medieval African empires of Mali and Songhai. The site is useful to students as a tool to learn about important concepts in archeology such as interpreting evidence and dating artifacts.
• Arctic Circle The idea culminating in Arctic Circle originated during a symposium on 'The Use of the World Wide Web in Education,' sponsored by the Faculty Resource Laboratory at the University of Connecticut in February of 1995. Following a presentation by Thomas Plunkett and Jonathan Lizee, co-developers of ArchNet, the WWW Virtual Library for Archaeology, they were joined by Norman Chance, an arctic anthropologist, interested in finding ways to expand knowledge of the Circumpolar North to a wider audience of students, educators, policy makers, environmental planners, and others.

Museums

• American Museum of Natural History Changing and permanent exhibitions. §
• University of California Museum of Paleontology Virtual Museum Hosted by the University of California, Berekely. §

News

• Information on Darkness in El Dorado News articles, statements, reviews, and other information on Patrick Tierney's book Darkness in El Dorado: How Scientists and Journalists Devastated The Amazon (2000). §

Internet Resources/Indices

• American Anthropological Association Resources Links of anthropological interest from the American Anthropological Association. §
• Anthro-1 Archives Arcive of Anthro-L, which is a forum for the announcement and discussion of anthropological news, research, theories, publications, meetings, exhibits, and events, and for dialogue on matters relating to the discipline itself. We welcome contributions from anthropologists, professional or avocational, and from our colleagues in other fields.
• Anthropology Exhibits on the WWW Links from the Cente for Social Anthropology and Computing at the University of Kent at Canterbury. §
• Anthropology Resources on the Internet (Europe) This is a comprehensive list of Internet Resources which are directly and primarily of anthropological relevance; in order to retain manageability, i have omitted sites which only tangentially deal with anthropology, such as native issues, "primitive art", history, etc.
• Anthropology Virtual Library Part of the World Wide Web Library. §
• Anthropology Webliography Louisiana State University Dept. of Geography and Anthropology link page. §
• Galaxy: Anthropology Galaxy is the original searchable Internet directory. Our mission is to provide contextually relevant information by integrating state-of-the-art technology with the human touch.
• Top 20 Anthropology Connect Online, LLC is located in Columbus, Ohio. The company is about information processing. It attempts to provide a better way to navigate the Worldwide Web.
• Ur-List: Web Resources for Visual Anthropology The Ur-List: Web Resources for Visual Anthropology facilitates web searches by cross-indexing three hundred and seventy-five anthropological sites according to the categories of information they contain. The Ur-List's cross-index is more accurate than most Web-resource guides which typically reduce a site's multifaceted content to only one category. In the Ur-List, sites may be accessed according to the twenty-two subject-categories listed above. Multifaceted sites are cross-referenced under all appropriate categories.
• World Email Directory of Anthropologists The Worldwide Email Directory of Anthropologists (WEDA) is a searchable database of address and research information about anthropologists from around the world. This is a completely volunteer project, established to encourage and aid scholarly communication. Here, anthropology is taken in its widest sense, to include physical, earth, and social scientists, as well as their colleagues in the humanities. Students and scholars, applied anthropologists, professionals and avocationalists are all very welcome! As of Nov 24, 1999, WEDA contained information on 2,020 institutions and 4,919 individuals -- and it is growing every day... NB.

Associations

• Alaska Anthropological Association The purpose of the Alaska Anthropological Association is to serve as a vehicle for maintaining communication among people interested in all branches of anthropology; to promote public awareness and education of anthropological activities and goals; to foster sympathetic appreciation of the past and present cultures of Alaskan peoples; to encourage Alaskan Natives to participate in the elucidation of their respective cultures; and to facilitate the dissemination of anthropological works in both technical and non-technical formats.
• American Anthropological Association The American Anthropological Association (AAA), the primary professional society of anthropologists in the United States since its founding in 1902, is the world's largest professional organization of individuals interested in anthropology.
• • Sections American Ethnological Society; Anthropology and Environment Section; Archaeology Division; Association for Africanist Anthropology; Association for Feminist Anthropology; Association for Political and Legal Anthropology; Association of Black Anthropologists; Association of Latina and Latino Anthropologists; Association of Senior Anthropologists; Biological Anthropology Section; Central States Anthropological Society; Council for Museum Anthropology; Council on Anthropology and Education; Council on Nutritional Anthropology; Culture and Agriculture; East Asian Studies in Anthropology Section; Evolutionary Anthropology Society; General Anthropology Division; Middle East Section; National Association for the Practice of Anthropology; National Association of Student Anthropologists; Society for Anthropology in Community Colleges; Society for Cultural Anthropology; Society for East Asian Anthropology; Society for Humanistic Anthropology; Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology; Society for Linguistic Anthropology; Society for Medical Anthropology; Society for Psychological Anthropology; Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness; Society for the Anthropology of Europe; Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition; Society for the Anthropology of North America; Society for the Anthropology of Religion; Society for the Anthropology of Work; Society for Urban, National and Transnational/Global Anthropology; Society for Visual Anthropology; Society of Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists.
  • Interest Groups Anthropology of Public Policy; Melanesia; Post-Communist Cultural Studies; Scholarly Communications; Sexuality Studies and Anthropology; Society for Anthropological Sciences; AIDS and Anthropology Research; Alcohol and Drug Study; Bioethics; Clinically Applied Medical Anthropology Special Committee; Council on Anthropology and Reproduction; Council on Nursing and Anthropology; Critical Anthropology of Health Caucus; Disability Research; Global Health and Emerging Diseases; Federation of Small Anthropology Programs.
• Canadian Anthropology Society (CASCA) The Canadian Anthropology Society is a bilingual organization operating at a national level. It has for its mandate to: promote anthropology in Canada, support anthropological research, disseminate anthropological knowledge in the academic milieu and to the wider public.
• Federation of Small Anthropology Programs It is designed to further the needs of faculty and students in small programs in Universities, Colleges, and Community Colleges, as well as public or private agencies, consulting firms and any other small groups with interests in anthropology.
• High Plains Society for Applied Anthropology Dedicated to anthropological solutions to problems resulting from socioeconomic, environmental, and cultural change.
• Human Behavior Evolution Society The Human Behavior and Evolution Society (HBES) is an interdisciplinary, international society of researchers, primarily from the social and biological sciences, who use evolutionary theory to discover human nature - including evolved cognitive, behavioral, emotional and sexual adaptations.
• Leakey Foundation Thirty years ago, the Leakey Foundation was founded to support research into human origins. Contributions from members and high donors help us to grant approximately $600,000 each year to exciting projects worldwide. Our grant-giving programs strive to continue the pioneering vision of Louis Leakey, one of the century's great anthropologists and the Foundation's namesake.
• Society for Applied Anthropology The Society has for its object the promotion of interdisciplinary scientific investigation of the principles controlling the relations of human beings to one another, and the encouragement of the wide application of these principles to practical problems, and shall be known as The Society for Applied Anthropology.
• Society of Ethnobiology The Society of Ethnobiology is a nonprofit professional organization dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of the relationships of plants and animals with human cultures worldwide. Topics include but are not limited to paleoethnobotany, zooarchaeology, ethnobotany, ethnozoology, and other related areas in anthropology and biology. The Society hosts an annual conference and oversees publication of the Journal of Ethnobiology, a semi-annual professional journal.
• Texas Archeological Society The Texas Archeological Society is dedicated to the study and preservation of the historic and prehistoric aspects of Texas' past.

Disclaimer

• All descriptions are directly taken from the web site that it describes. The exceptions are noted with the symbol "§".