Subject/Course Guides
Cultural Anthropology (Anthropology 101) Resources
Internet resources:
- American Anthropological Association - professional association web site. Good source to explore Anthropology as a career Includes and extensive listing of "Anthropology Resources on the Internet."
- American Folklife Center - guide to the Library of Congress' center dedicated to the preservation of American Folk Culture. Click on "ethnographic studies" for a listing of journals and electronic texts.
- American Museum of Natural History - Div. of Anthropology - contains more than 170,000 digital images of cultural artifacts from around the world; fields notes and photographs from various expeditions since 1890; current research projects; collection and exhibition highlights; online anthropology thesarus, etc.
- Yahoo Anthropology/Archaeology Server
- WWW Virtual Library: Anthropology
- Anthropology in the News - Texas A&M's anthropology department maintains a database of current news articles in the field.
- Smithsonian Center for Folklife - explores the Smithsonian Folklife programs.
- Project Gutenberg Online Catalog - e-texts of thousands of public domain books including many classic fairy tales and legends - good source for alternative narratives. You may read text-only online or download full text with images. (NOTE: Browse catalog by title or Advance Search using the term "folklore" in the subject search box.)
- Folklore and Mythology Electronic Texts - an academic collection of folklore/legends/fairy tale texts from around the world includes articles about folklore.
- Kinship and Social Organization: An Interactive Tutorial - an illustrated online tutorial including kin fundamentals and terminology, marriage systems, systems of descent, and ethnographic examples.
- Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture - site for the as-yet-unbuilt museum that features personal narratives, education activities and links, timelines, images, programs, collections, and planned exhibits , etc.
Library electronic resources:
- Online book & media catalog
- Periodical Databases
- Documenting sources
updated 2007
