Ethnographic
Archives
- African Music Archive,
Institute of Ethnology and African Studies, Johannes Gutenberg-University
Mainz
- American Museum of Natural
History, Central Archives and Manuscript Collections, New York
- American Philosophical Society,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Arab
Image Foundation / Fondation Arabe pour l'Image,
Beirut, Lebanon
- Archive of
Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
- The Archive
of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America, University
of Texas at Austin
- Archive
of World Music, Harvard University, collects commercial and
field recordings of ethnic and folk music, with a special emphasis
on the music of Asia and the Middle
- Archives
Center, National Museum of American History
- Archives of African American Music and Culture, Indiana University
- Archives of Traditional
Music, Bloomington, Indiana, includes the Archives of the Languages
of the World and the former Institute for Liberian Studies
- Arizona
State Museum Archives contains ethnographic and archaeological
field documentation, sound recordings of Indian oral history, music
and linguistic data relating to the Greater Southwest
- Babylonian Jewry Heritage
Center, Or-Yehuda, Israel
- Balch Institute for Ethnic
Studies is dedicated to collecting and interpreting materials
reflecting our nation's multicultural heritage.
- Bibliothèque
du Laboratoire d’anthropologie sociale,
l'École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris.
- Bibliothèque Éric-de-Dampierre (Laboratoire d'ethnologie
et de sociologie comparative), La Maison René Ginouvès
d'Archéologie et d'Ethnologie, Université de Paris
X - Nanterre.
- Billie Jane Baguley Library and Archives, Heard Museum focuses on Native American
art and culture with an emphasis on the Greater Southwest
- British Library of Political
and Economic Science, London School of Economics and Poltical
Science
- Canadian
Museum of Civilization Archives
- Center of Southwest
Studies, Fort Lewis College, Durango, Colorado
- Central
California Folklore Archives, California State University, Fresno
- Cline Library Special
Collections and Archives, Northern Arizona University, features
online exhibits and a searchable image database
- Colorado River Indian Tribes
Library/Archive, preserving and documenting Mohave, Chemehuevi,
Navajo, and Hopi culture
- Eliot
Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Arts
- Endangered Ethnographic Archive, Sofia, Bulgaria
- Ethnographic Archive of the Estonian National Museum, Tartu, Estonia
- Ethnographic
Archives, Department of Anthropology, California State University,
Chico
- Ethnographic Museum in Zagreb,
Croatia
- Ethnographic
Prints and Photographs Archives, National Board of Antiquities,
Helsinki, Finland
- Film
Archive of Human Ethology of the Max-Planck-Society and Human
Studies Center at the Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich
- Folklore
and Ethnology Archive, University College Cork, Ireland
- HADDON
is an online catalogue of archival ethnographic films and film footage
in archives, museums and other institutions worldwide
- Human Studies Film Archives,
Smithsonian Institution
- Indira Gandhi National
Centre for the Arts Cultural Archive, New Delhi, India
- Kevin Barry
Perdue Archive of Traditional Culture, University of Virginia
- Laboratory
of Music Ethnology, Mykola Lysenko State Higher Music Institute,
Ukraine
- Mashantucket
Pequot Tribal Archives and Special Collections
- Mass-Observation
Archive, University of Sussex
- La Médiathèque
de la Maison Méditerranéenne
des Sciences de l'Homme, Aix-en-Provence,
France
- Melanesian Archive,
University of California, San Diego
- Melville J. Herskovits
Library of African Studies, Northwestern University, includes
the fieldnotes of many of Herskovits' students
- Morija
Museum and Archives, Lesotho
- Mukurtu Wumpurrarni-kari Archive (Nyinkka Nyunyu Art and Culture Centre, Tennant Creek, NT,
Australia)
- Mura Gadi is a
guide to manuscript, pictorial and oral history materials relating
to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders in
the National Library of Australia
- Musée
d'ethnographie de Neuchâtel, Switzerland
- Museum of Indian
Arts and Culture, Laboratory of Anthropology, Santa Fe, New
Mexico
- Museum of the Romanian
Peasant, Bucharest, Romania
- Music
Archive for the Pacific, Southern Cross University, Lismore,
Australia
- National Anthropological
Archives, Smithsonian Institution
- National
Museum of the American Indian Photo Archives includes historic
scenes, portraits and field photographs of the museum's ethnographic
and archaeological expeditions
- Northwest
Territories Archives, Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Center,
Yellowknife, NT, Canada
- Orang Asli Archive,
Keene State College, Keene, New Hampshire
- Pacific And Regional Archive
for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (PARADISEC), Universities
of Sydney, Melbourne, ANU and the Australian Research Council
- Peabody
Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Anthropology Centre, Bangkok, Thailand
- Ralph Rinzler
Folklife Archives & Collections, Smithsonian Institution
- Rivers of Steel Archives,
Homestead, Pennsylvania
- Rosetta Project, a global collaboration of language specialists and native speakers building a publicly accessible online archive of alldocumented human languages.
- The
Rotuma Archive is dedicated to this Pacific island and its people
- Royal Anthropological
Institute
- School of Oriental
and African Studies Library, Archives and Manuscripts Division,
London
- South
Australian Museum Anthropology Archives
- Tulane
University Latin American Image Archive contains over
fifty major collections of photographs and close to 25,000 individual
items, dating from the mid-19th century to the present
- University of
California Los Angeles Ethnomusicology Archive collects sound
recordings of folk, ethnic, and non-western classical music, including
unpublished field recordings
- University
of California Los Angeles Rock Art Archive
- University
of Missouri-Columbia Museum of Anthropology Archives
- University
of Pennsylvania Museum Archives
- University
of Wollongong Library-Archives
- Victor
Weybright Archives of the Gypsy Lore Society
- Virtual Institute of Mambila
Studies (David Zeitlyn,
University of Kent,
Canterbury)
- Williams
Afghan Media Project, Williams College, Williamstown, MA, and
the Afghan Media Resource Center, Peshawar, Pakistan
- World
Music Archives, Wesleyan University
Sites
About Anthropologists
- Films
of Anthropological and Other "Ancestors" (Alan Macfarlane)
- Gregory
Bateson (Vincent Kenny)
- J.
Desmond Clark (UC Berkeley Anthropology Emeritus Lecture Series)
- Elizabeth
Colson (UC Berkeley Anthropology Emeritus Lecture Series)
- Stewart
Culin (University of Waterloo)
- Frank
Hamilton Cushing (The West, Ken Burns and Stephen Ives,
coproducers, WETA)
- Frederica de Laguna (Marie-Françoise Guédon)
- Francis
Densmore (Stephen Smith, Minnesota Public Radio)
- Alice
Fletcher, Harriet Cosgrove and Cora Du Bois (Peabody Museum
of Archaeology and Ethnology)
- George
M. Foster (UC Berkeley Anthropology Emeritus Lecture Series)
- Ernest
Gellner (Jeffrey Cormier and Philippe Couton
- Carl
E. Guthe (University of Michigan)
- John Peabody Harrington
(Bob Edberg)
- Zora Neale
Hurston (Kip Austin Hinton)
- G.I. Jones
(John C. McCall, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale)
- William
Jones (Collis H. Davis)
- Alfred
Kroeber (The Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology, in association
with the UC Berkeley Center for Studies in Higher Education's Humanities
and Technology Project)
- Margaret
Mead (American Museum of Natural History).
- John
Wesley Powell and the Bureau of American Ethnology (Mark J.
Davis, Lost in the Grand Canyon, The American Experience,
WGBH)
- Géza Rohéim
(Association Géza Rohéim, France)
- John
Howland Rowe (UC Berkeley Anthropology Emeritus Lecture Series)
- Isaac Schapera (Dr. Godisang Mookodi, university of Botswana)
- William
A. Shack (UC Berkeley Anthropology Emeritus Lecture Series)
- Paul Stirling (Centre
for Social Anthropology and Computing, University of Kent at Canterbury)
- Cyrus
Thomas (Jon Muller, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale)
- Sherwood
L. Washburn (UC Berkeley Anthropology Emeritus Lecture Series)
- Gordon
R. Willey (Katherine Jones-Garmil, Peabody Museum of Archaeology
and Ethnology)
Resources
for Anthropologists
- American
Anthropology Obituary Index: American Anthropologist & Anthropology
Newsletter (David Price, St. Martin’s College)
- AnthCal
- The Anthropology Today Calendar of Events in Anthropology
(Royal Anthropological Institute)
- Anthropological
Index Online (Royal Anthropological Institute)
- AnthroSource, an evolving, interactive repository of research and communications tools for anthropologists, sponsored by the American Anthropological Association.
- Archives
for Language Documentation and Description (Steven Bird, University
of Pennsylvania)
- Council for Museum Anthropology
Check
out Directory of Museum Training for Students of Anthropology
and Anthropology Museums on the Web.
- Country Studies/Area
Handbooks are prepared by the Federal Research Division of the
Library of Congress.
- Documenting Endangered Languages is a multi-year NSF-NEH funding partnership supporting projects to develop and advance knowledge concerning endangered human languages.
- Ethnographic Thesaurus (ET), currently in the early stages of development, is a comprehensive controlled list of terms to be used in describing ethnographic research collections.
- Ethnologue:
Languages of the World (edited by Barbara F. Grimes. SIL International.
13th edition.)
- Fourth World Documentation Project,
Center For World Indigenous Studies
- History
of Anthropology Newsletter (edited by George Stocking, University
of Chicago)
- Indigenous Studies
Virtual Library (Center for World Indigenous Studies)
- Institut fur den Wissenschaftlichen
Film, Gottingen, Germany
- International
Clearinghouse for Endangered Languages
- International
Phonetic Association (IPA)
- Managing
Archaeological Collections: Technical Assistance is produced
by the Archeology and Ethnography Section of the National Park Service.
- National Archeological
Database (Archeology and Ethnography Program, National Park
Service) is an expanded bibliographic inventory of approximately
240,000 reports on archeological planning and investigation
- NativeWeb, resources for
indigenous cultures around the world
- Public Anthropology
is the home of Engaging Ideas, the Graduate Journal,
and the Anthropology Journal Archive Project (Rob Borofsky)
- Resources in
Ethnographic Studies (American Folklife Center, The Library
of Congress)
- Script Encoding Initiative (Dept of Linguistics, UC Berkeley) is encouraging collaboration among scholars, users, and institutions in encoding scripts not yet in the Unicode Standard.
- Social
Science Information Gateway: Ethnology, Ethnography and Anthropology
(Institute for Learning and Research Technology, University of Bristol,
UK)
- The Society for the Study of the
Indigenous Languages of the Americas
- Terralingua: Partnerships
for Linguistic and Biological Diversity
- Wenner-Gren Foundation for
Anthropological Research offers grants to help anthropologists
prepare their professional papers for archival deposit.
- World
E-Mail Directory of Anthropologists
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