Directory of Cultural Anthropology Resources

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To anthropologists, culture is the complex of learned, non-genetic behavior shared by the members of a society. Cultural anthropologists document the cultures of specific societies, and/or compare different societies in order to derive general principles of cultural evolution and human adaptation. It is the emphasis on cross-cultural comparison that helps distinguish cultural anthropology from many other Western social sciences.

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• Ethnobotany
• Ethnography
• Ethnomusicology
• Folklore and Mythology
• Journals
• Media Culture
• Methods and Techniques
• Organizations
• Visual Anthropology

Resources in This Category

• Anthropology Resource Base

  http://www.nativeweb.org/resources/anthropology_archeology/
  Resources for indigenous cultures around the world provided by NativeWeb.

• Birth of Symbolic Thought

  http://www.paleolithicartmagazine.org/pagina119.html
  Article by Licia Filingeri discussing the emergence of the ability to symbolize.

• Critical Theory and Cultural Studies

  http://eserver.org/theory/
  "Cultural studies draws from the fields of anthropology, sociology, gender studies, feminism, literary criticism, history and psychoanalysis in order to discuss contemporary texts and cultural practices."

• Cultural Islands

  http://folk.uio.no/geirthe/Culturalislands.html
  An essay by Thomas Hylland Eriksen that critically examines the metaphors which have underlied anthropological theory and research.

• Culture by Commotion Trilogy

  http://www.cultureby.com/
  Online version of the series of books that include: Plenitude, Transformation, Commotion. The series offers an anthropological account of modern life by Grant McCracken.

• Cultures Observations Database

  http://www.cultures.org/
  Open content project collecting observations made by travelers on behavior in other cultures. Features project description, technical details, and contacts.

• Implosion

  http://home.worldcom.ch/~negenter/
  Research in architecture on the phenomenology of space of O. F. Bollnow. [in English, French and German].

• Kinship and Social Organization

  http://www.umanitoba.ca/faculties/arts/anthropology/kintitle.html
  Hypertext tutorial covering descent, kinship terminology, marriage systems, and residence rules. Includes ethnographic examples.

• Radical Anthropology Group

  http://www.radicalanthropologygroup.org/
  Features mission statement, group member profiles and journal.

• Slovenian Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology

  http://www.benjaminbezek.net/etnologija/ethnology.htm
  A portal dedicated to preserving national traditions and promoting research. Offers photos, articles, and fieldwork reports, as well as a calendar of local events.

• Social and Cultural Evolution

  http://www.socio.ch/evo/index_evo.htm
  A directory of links to research papers that discuss general theoretical approaches and models of culture change.

• Symbolic Anthropology

  http://www.anthja.com/exersymb3.html
  A site that explores the relationship between symbols and a society's cognitive structure, rules of moral conduct and patterns of social interactions.

• The Aesthetic Realism of Eli Siegel

  http://www.perey-anthropology.net/
  Essays in cultural anthropology on the philosophy of Aesthetic Realism.

• Theory in Anthropology

  http://www.indiana.edu/~wanthro/theory.htm
  Descriptions of various subdisciplines of sociocultural anthropology, reviews of trends in anthropological publications, and biographies of some influential anthropologists.

• Trobriand Island Digital Ethnography Project

  http://trobriandsindepth.com/
  Includes historic texts and current anthropological works, lists and links to Trobriand Island scholars.

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