Directory of Ethnography Resources

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Ethnography describes the aspect of cultural anthropology concerned with the descriptive documentation of living cultures.

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• Bradshaw Foundation: The Unambal

  http://www.bradshawfoundation.com/unambal/
  Excerpts from Andreas Lommel's 1938 account of the Unambal people of northwestern Australia, including pictures of Wandjina rock paintings.

• CSAC's Ethnographics Gallery

  http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/
  A directory of reports and cultural summaries from the University of Kent.

• Ethnographic Research

  http://www.statisticalassociates.com/ethnography.htm
  A description of the Ethnographic Method that includes a discussion of key concepts and a glossary of terms.

• Ethnographic Studies Internet Resource Page

  http://www.loc.gov/folklife/other.html
  A collection of ethnographic resources provided by the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress.

• Last Refuge: Waorani

  http://www.lastrefuge.co.uk/data/articles/waorani/waorani_articles_main.html
  A photo gallery of the Waorani, a horticultural society Amazonian tribe found in Ecuador. Features short articles and references.

• List of Ethnic Units

  http://www.mandaras.info/EthnicGroups.html
  A directory of links to thumbnail sketch ethnographies of West African cultures.

• Native Planet NGO

  http://www.nativeplanet.org/ngo/ngo.htm
  A resource for studying indigenous cultures, Eco-tourism, documentaries, and travel information. Contains volunteer information, aid projects, photos, and stories.

• Pygmies.org

  http://www.pygmies.org/
  Culture and music of a people in the rain forests of Cameroon. Includes the fieldwork and the initiation in the forest of a young Italian ethnomusicologist.

• Qurna History Project

  http://www.qurna.org/
  Features information on the culture and heritage of the village on the west bank at Luxor, Egypt.

• Social Context and the Limits on Symbolic Meanings

  http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/Tradition/Vaka.html
  A ethnographic report that discusses the symbolism of the Sixth Festival of Pacific Arts held in Rarotonga, The Cook Islands, during October 1992.

• The Songs of the Ancestors - A Comparative Study of Bashiic Folklore

  http://www.uga.edu/~asian-lp/jpn_html/yami/content.html
  Full-text version of the book by Deszo Benedek of the culture of the Yami, a people of Malayo-Polynesian stock living in Taiwan.

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