Africa divination, Mambila and others : anthropological studies of divination
http://www.era.anthropology.ac.uk/Era_Resources/Era/Divination/index.html
This site has been prepared by David Zeitlyn and Michael Fischer for the ERA (Experience Rich Anthropology) project funded by HEFCE. ERA aims to provide teaching materials that emphasise the use of field data and analysis. This site contains online simulations of Venda divining dice, and Mambila spider divination. It is hoped that direct experience of the processes involved in such divination will facilitate the comprehension of divination as described in the anthropological literature. The site also contains a number of links to online papers concerning divination.
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Ancestors in Africa : selected readings and Mambila case material
http://www.era.anthropology.ac.uk/Era_Resources/Era/Ancestors/intro.html
This site is the product of an ERA (Experience Rich Anthropology) project, funded by HEFCE. ERA aims to enhance the teaching and learning of anthropology through providing resources for use in teaching with an increased emphasis on field data and analysis. This site contains links to selected readings and correspondence from journals concerning the discussion of ancestors in African anthropology. It is hoped that this will provide an analytical framework with which to approach the Mambila case study that is also presented. This is an interesting example as it is unclear as to whether or not the Mambila can meaningfully be said to have ancestors.
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Before Farming: the Archaeology and Anthropology of Hunter-Gatherers 
http://www.waspress.co.uk/journals/beforefarming/
Before Farming is an online and print journal designed for archaeologists and anthropologists researching hunter-gatherers past and present. It covers all aspects of hunter-gatherer behaviour and related issues of methodology and interpretation in both the old and new worlds and for all time periods. It is published by Western Academic and Specialist Press. The current editor is Larry Barham, University of Liverpool. The first two issues of the journal are freely available on line but, thereafter, a subscription is required. Full details of this and of editorial staff and policy are presented on the journal's website.
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British Museum collections database
http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database.aspx
The Britiish Museum is world famous for its collections of antiquities, artefacts from ancient civilisations and modern cultures. Its online collections database provides information and images of over 260,000 items from its collections. These include coverage of Ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome as well as materials relating to the study of ethnography and anthropology of different cultures. Also of key importance to social scientists is the online collection from the prints and drawings section which provides access to digitised images of political satire, political cartoons and prints and drawings relating to British elections from the 18th Century. Images relating to Ancient empires can also be traced. Technical and copyright information is displayed on the website.
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Centre interuniversitaire d'études et de recherches authochtones
http://www.ciera.ulaval.ca/index.htm
CIERA is a recognised research centre of Laval University. Its principal mission is to to develop research on indigenous societies and cultures, in collaboration with other universities, from a multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary and globalizing perspective. Research conducted at CIERA spans various fields, such as economics, sociology, anthropology, political sciences, and religious studies. Such research aims at allowing a full and effective participation of indigenous peoples in the social, economic, and political activities of civil society. The geographical focus of the Centre's activities is Canada but, given the broad cultural and social diversity of indigenous peoples, other regions of the world, such as the circumpolar area, Latin America, and Oceania, are also studied from a comparative perspective. The web pages give full details of the Centre's history, constitution, officers and activities. These latter include conference and seminar series, research projects and a publications programme. The site is available in French, Spanish and English though the French version has the fullest information.
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Danish Association for Reseach on the Caucasus
http://www.caucasus.dk/
This is the website of the Danish Association for Research on the Caucasus, "a non-governmental forum for researchers and others interested in the Caucasus region." The aim is to provide high quality information on the region and to create a forum that offers information on literature, people and institutions. The site offers information on the association and current activities/themes, as well as access to a number of publications in both English, Danish and Russian, that can all be reviewed via the browser.
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Day in the life... Somié village, province de l'Adamaoua, Cameroon.
http://www.era.anthropology.ac.uk/Era_Resources/Era/Daylife/index.html
These pages by David Zeitlyn present a series of video clips taken at one hour intervals throughout the period 6am-7pm on Wednesday 21 April 1999 in three key locations of Somié village in Cameroon. The clips are a series of exercises concerning fieldnote taking, observation and assumption. To accompany the clips there is a villager's diary entry for that day. There is also a link to another page where the clips can be watched without introductory text.
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Digital Library of American Museum of Natural History
http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/
American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) scientific publications disseminate the results of laboratory investigations and fieldwork conducted by museum scientists and their colleagues in the areas of zoological systematics, paleontology, geology, evolution, and anthropology. This collection includes full-text PDFs of current and back issues of AMNH scientific series. The anthropology-related topics range from rites of passage (in Shanti Nagar, India) and anthropometric data (on natives of Pukapuka island) to a series of ethnographies (e.g., Boas on mythology of Bella Coola or Turnbull on Mbuti pygmies).
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Ethnographic database project
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucsalfo/EDP/
The Ethnographic Database Project (EDP) is a web-based interface for the collection of comparative ethnographic data which can be used in cross-cultural analyses of human culture and behaviour. The EDP allows anthropologists to enter data from their field research in a standardised format. The project is in its early stages and is, at present, limited to data on a society's organisation, kinship and marriage practices, subsistence economy and pattern of sexual division of labour. There is also a focus on societies speaking Indo-European languages as these are felt to be underrepresented in existing ethnographic datasets. The web site gives background information about the project, a sample of the data collection form to be used and a contact form for anyone who wishes to become invloved.
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Ethnographiques: Revue en ligne de sciences humaines et sociales
http://www.ethnographiques.org/Archives.html
The site contains contributions of students or researchers on theoretical, methodological and reflexive aspects of the ethnographic practice. Here you will find abstracts and full-text articles in French (with abstracts in English as well) by various anthropologists, ethnologists, sociologists, geographers, etc. The topics covered are from a wide range, e.g., representations of femininity in Sicily, Boas and Lévi-Strauss vis-a-vis a myth of Kamchatka, adventism in France, or dilemmas of an ethnologist working for an enterprise. Short biographies and bibliographies of authors are available by clicking on authors' names.
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Ethnology: an International Journal of Cultural and Social Anthropology
http://www.pitt.edu/~ethnolog/
Ethnology was founded in 1962 by George P. Murdock with the goal of offering a forum for the publication of a broad range of research in the area of general cultural and social anthropology. The journal "welcomes articles by scholars of any country on any aspect of cultural anthropology. Theoretical or methodological discussions, however, will be published if they relate to substantive data." The journal's web site gives submission information for intending contributors, details of subcription rates and the membership of the Editorial Board. Abstracts of articles published since 1997 are available as well as a listing of published Ethnology Monographs.
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Ethnomusicology OnLine
http://www.umbc.edu/eol/
Ethnomusicology OnLine is a scholarly multimedia journal that offers visitors full text articles and media files of musical recordings from around the world. Articles for the online scholarly journal are peer-reviewed. The site also includes links for other related material.
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Etudes rurales
http://etudesrurales.revues.org/
A French journal which offers a contemporary and comparative review of rural life, worldwide. It draws on ethnology, geography, history and sociology in its analysis. The online archives go back to 1961. Contents and abstracts are freely available, but a subscription must be paid for full access. Contact details are given for this. The abstracts are in both English and French, but full articles are generally in French only.
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Europeana: European culture
http://www.europeana.eu/
Europeana is a European Commission funded portal which was launched in 2008 and is currently working to build a virtual European library offering free access to Europe's cultural resources. It includes millions of texts (manuscripts, papers, ebooks), images (photographs, maps), films (moving images, videos, film clips, television broadcasts) and sounds from Europe's main research libraries, archives and galleries. Organisations currently include the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, the British Library in London and the Louvre in Paris. It is possible to search the site by subject keyword, or browse by date, language and theme. A wide range of topics relevant to the social sciences are covered including elections (historic coverage), anthropology, social history, cultural events. Copyright and technical information is displayed on the website.
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Gypsy Lore Society
http://www.gypsyloresociety.org/
The Gypsy Lore Society is an international association of people interested in Gypsy and Traveller Studies, and has been established since 1888. Now based in the United States, it aims to promote the study of Gypsy, Traveller, and analogous peripatetic cultures worldwide; disseminate accurate information aimed at increasing understanding of these cultures in their diverse forms and establish closer contacts among scholars studying any aspects of these cultures. The site contains information on various gypsy and traveller groups in North America, an index of the society's journal Romani Studies, details of meetings of the society and lists of relevant resources.
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Haithi Trust Digital Library
http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/ls
The HathiTrust is a collaboration of about 13 leading American research libraries (members of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC)who are working to provide a shared repository for their online digital collections. Members include: California Digital Library; Indiana University; Michigan State University; Northwestern University; The Ohio State University; Penn State University; Purdue University; University of California Berkeley. Items available include books, eprints, journal articles. Out of copyright materials are in full text, other licensed materials may offer abstracts only. All subject areas of the humanities, social sciences and sciences are covered. They include substantial American political, social and economic history texts.The database may be searched by subject keyword. It was launched in 2008 and its under a process of expansion and development.
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Human Relations Area Files
http://www.yale.edu/hraf/
Human Relations Area Files, Inc. (HRAF) was founded in 1949, "HRAF is now a non-profit consortium of universities,colleges, and research agencies in more than 30 countries. The HRAF Collection currently contains nearly one million pages of information on the cultures of the world - past and present". This website gives full information about the range of HRAF services, both printed and electronic, though access to the services themselves is dependent upon membership of the consortium. Some publications, recent editions of HRAF News and some pamphlets and manuals, are available in in full-text.
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Humanmap of Ethnicities, Towns and Cultures
http://mapahumano.fiestras.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=R&pubid=98215
This Spanish language site contains general information on the native peoples of North & South America, the Pacific, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Pre-Colombian Americas. It includes articles, papers, legends, forums and other sources of interest.
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Imponderabilia
http://imponderabilia.socanth.cam.ac.uk/
Imponderabilia is an open access multidisciplinary student journal covering all aspects of Anthropology which is published by Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge. It encourages contributions from undergraduate and postgraduate students worldwide. Each issues includes articles, reviews, news and comment coverign a broad range of anthropological sub-fields including: ethnogaphy, visual anthropology, teaching and learning anthropology, activisim and development. The website also includes a resources section where users can suggest useful anthropological websites, blogs, films and other resources. All issues from volume 1, 2009 onwards can be accessed via the website.
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Indigenous Australia
http://www.dreamtime.net.au/index.cfm
A site in conjunction with The Australia Museum providing general information on the culture of indigenous peoples of Australia. Includes a time-line of pre-contact to the present, information on cultural heritage, spirituality, kinship, land, and folklore.
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joiningthedocs.tv : independent documentary film
http://independent.joiningthedots.tv/
joiningthedocs.tv is an independent documentary channel which provides access to documentaries via streaming video or download. Trailers can be viewed free of charge, but access to the full films requires a subscription or one off payment. It has received funding from the EU MEDIA digital distribution fund, and works in partnership with The Independent newspaper and Sheffield Documentary Festival, specialising in bringing titles aired at film festivals and art house cinema to a wider audience. Topics covered include anthropology and ethnographic film, investigation of social issues, world politics and globalisation, international relations and political ethics. Technical and copyright information is displayed on the website.
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Jordens Folk
http://www.jordensfolk.dk/
This is the website of Jordens Folk, a Danish popular science ethnographic journal published by Danish Anthropological Society, where experts in words and images transmit knowledge about the peoples and cultures of the world. Jordens Folk is a subscription journal but users can view abstracts of all issues by searching the archives. The journal and the site are in Danish only.
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LSE Anthropology photographs
http://www.lse.ac.uk/library/archive/anthropology_photographs.htm
This site provides free access to an online collection of photographs taken by members of academic staff from the Anthropology department at the London School of Economics (LSE). They represent a photographic record of recent ethnographic fieldwork research from around the world.Examples include: Dr Catherine Allerton (the people of southern Manggarai in western Flores Southeast Asia); Dr Henrike Donner (fieldwork in Calcutta and West Bengal); Professor Stephan Feuchtwang (fieldwork in Taiwan in 1967); Professor Chris Fuller (priests and the rituals of the Minakshi Temple, India between 1976 and 2002); Professor Deborah James (fieldwork in South Africa); Professor Michael Lambek (fieldwork in northwest Madagascar.); Professor Emeritus Peter Loizos (Greek Cypriots); Professor Jonathan Parry (fieldwork in India); Professor Charles Stafford (fieldwork in China and Taiwan). The site includes some biographical information about the Anthropologists. Entries include factual and copyright information about the photographs.
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Mediated Cultures
http://mediatedcultures.net/
Mediated Cultures.net is "Home of the digital ethnography working group, a team of cultural anthropology undergraduates of Kansas State University led by Michael Wesch exploring the impacts of digital technology on human interaction and human interaction on digital technology"
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National Geographic Society publications index
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/resources/ngs/publications/explore.html
This site provides free access to the index of publications of the National Geographic Society which is one of the largest non-profit scientific and educational institutions in the world. It includes references to over 30,000 journal articles, books, conference proceedings and maps published by the society since 1885. They include materials issued in National Geographic Magazine. Topics of interest include geography, conservation, environmental policy, world cuulture and history. They include popular items relating to the ethnography and study of world cultures worldwide. The database may be searched or browsed. Entries give titles and key words.
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