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 Web Resources for Anthropology Students (Sociocultural and Linguistic)

A list compiled by Maggie Ronkin and John Curran in 2008

 


Research Blogs

 

DIRECTORY

http://www.academicblogs.org/wiki/index.php/Anthropology

 

Savage Minds

www.savageminds.org

(Highly recommended)

 

Open Access Anthropology

http://blog.openaccessanthropology.org/

 

antropologi.info - Anthropology newspaper

http://www.antropologi.info/blog/

an aggregator of anthropology blogs updated every 4 hours

 

Culture Matters

http://culturematters.wordpress.com/

 

Cultureby

http://www.cultureby.com/trilogy/

 

Ethnography.com

http://www.ethnography.com/

 

Language Log

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/

 

Linguistic Anthropology Blog

http://linganth.blogspot.com/

 

Material World (NYU)

http://blogs.nyu.edu/projects/materialworld/

 

Project Narrative Weblog (Ohio State University)

http://projectnarrative.wordpress.com/

 

Anthropology Blog Search (Google)

http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=010601212192642111327%3Ac5ick0mhmhm

 

Search Engines and Repositories

 

AnthroSource

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficiall&q=site%3A.anthrosource.net+&btnG=Search

Search it the easy way … with Google

 

Digital Anthropology Library at UC-Berkeley

http://anthrohub.lib.berkeley.edu

 

The Language and Gender Page

http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/faculty/bucholtz/lng/

People, publications, organizations, conferences, and resources in language and gender studies

 

Language Policy Web Site & Emporium (James Crawford)

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/JWCrawford/

 

The Linguist List's Web Resources

http://www.linguistlist.org/sp/Dict.html

 

Mana'o Repository

http://manao.manoa.hawaii.edu/

An open-access repository for anthropology

 

MIT Open Course Ware

http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/home/home/index.htm

 

Project Narrative at The Ohio State University

http://projectnarrative.osu.edu/

also see the Center for Folklore Studies http://cfs.osu.edu/

 

Resources for Discourse Studies (Teun van Dijk)

http://www.discourses.org/Resources.html

 

Social Science Research Network

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/displayabstractsearch.cfm

 

Audio-Visual

 

Audio

 

 

  • Anthropology 320: Studies in Hunter-Gatherer Archaeology (Robert W. Park)

        http://anthropology.uwaterloo.ca/anthpodcasts/ANTH320.xml 

 

Video

Doing Anthropology

http://techtv.mit.edu/file/663/

A video by the MIT anthropology on what it means to "do anthropology" and practice ethnographic fieldwork. 

 

Peter Rose: Vox 13 Series

http://www.ubu.com/film/rose.html

"A grand circumnavigation of the subject of language"

 

Alan MacFarlane: Interviews with leading thinkers in anthropology

http://www.alanmacfarlane.com/ancestors/audiovisual.html

 

  • Audio files of a five-part lecture by Kroeber on Sex and Natural History in 1956
  • Also available from the Berkeley Media Resources Center Levi-Strauss on The Birth of Historical Societies, Mead on Female Creativity, and Foucault on Culture and Self.  (Real Audio stream)

 

People

People Who Maintain Useful Websites

 

Alan Macfarlane

http://www.alanmacfarlane.com/

Videos, documents, classes, lectures … A staggering amount of material.  Great for the professional socialization of anthropology students

 

Richard Wilk (Proseminar in Sociocultural Anthropology)

http://www.indiana.edu/~wanthro/sociocultural_theory.htm

"This site provides resources for student and professional anthropologists interested in learning more about the discipline and its recent history."  Much of the material has been written collaboratively with graduate students of Richard Wilk (Indiana University Bloomington) beginning in 1995

 

Heroes of Our Age, a very partial list

 

Alessandro Duranti (linguistic anthropology)

http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/anthro/faculty/duranti/

 

Howard Gardner (education)

http://www.howardgardner.com

 

Kenneth Gergen (discursive constructionism, social psychology)

http://www.swarthmore.edu/SocSci/kgergen1/web/page.phtml?st=home&id=home

 

Charles Goodwin (applied linguistics, discourse analysis)

http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/clic/cgoodwin/publish.htm

 

Marjorie Goodwin (linguistic anthropology)

http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/anthro/faculty/goodwin/

 

John Heritage (conversation analysis)

http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/clic/heritage/

 

Jonathan Mark Kenoyer (Indus Valley archeology)

http://www.harappa.com/indus3/kenoyer.html

http://www.harappa.com/

 

George Lakoff (Rockridge Institute and moral politics)

http://www.rockridgeinstitute.org/people/lakoff

 

Beth Mertz (legal anthropology)

http://law.wisc.edu/faculty/biog.php?iID=454

http://www.abf-sociolegal.org/resmertz.html

 

John Rickford (sociolinguistics, Ebonics)

http://www.stanford.edu/~rickford/

Writings on Ebonics and other papers

 

Teun van Dijk (discourse studies and links to discourse journals, research, and projects)

http://www.discourses.org

 

Stanton Wortham (linguistic anthropology, education)

http://www.gse.upenn.edu/~stantonw/

 

Tools 

 

Digital Research Tools Wiki (Lisa Spiro, Rice University)

http://digitalresearchtools.pbwiki.com/

(Highly recommended)

 

Geeni: A Collaborative Kinship Chart Editor

http://www.geni.com/

 

Kinship Chart Editor

http://era.anthropology.ac.uk/Kinship/index.html

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=171676 (standalone version for download)

 

The Linguist's Search Engine (University of Maryland)

http://lse.umiacs.umd.edu:8080/lse/query.pl

"Linguist's Search Engine" is a web-based program that parses sentences and generates syntactic tree diagrams automatically.  To log-in and use LSE, the username is 'guest' and the password is 'guest'.

 

The University of Texas Libraries' Map Collection

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/

 

SIMILE

http://simile.mit.edu/

Open-source tools for diagrams, timeplots, semantic webs, and other things …

 

Transcription of Interaction

http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/projects/transcription/index.html

Resources for the representation of linguistic interaction

 

TreeForm

http://www.ece.ubc.ca/~donaldd/treeform.htm

The only free program for drawing syntactic tree diagrams

   

Classics 

 

Filmed Interviews and Lectures with Leading Thinkers (many in anthropology)

http://www.alanmacfarlane.com/ancestors/audiovisual.html

 

Anthro Classics available online

http://savageminds.org/2007/02/07/more-anthro-classics-on-google/

 

HyperGeertz WorldCatalogue

http://www.iwp.uni-linz.ac.at/lxe/sektktf/gg/HyperGeertz-1950-1959.htm

 

Miscellaneous

 

American Anthropological Association

http://www.aaanet.org/

 

American Dialect Society (including the ADS-L Email List and DARE, the Dictionary of American Regional English)

http://www.americandialect.org/

 

Anthropological Theory Timeline (Internet Explorer only)

http://abo46n2.googlepages.com/timeline.htm

 

Anthropology Conference Alerts

http://www.conferencealerts.com/anthropology.htm

 

The Discourse Studies List (ListServ)

discours@listserv.linguistlist.org

 

Linguistic Society of America

http://www.lsadc.org/

 

Linguistics and the Language Sciences (American Association for the Advancement of Science)

http://www.aaas.org/aboutaaas/organization/sections/ling.shtml

 

RACE - Are We So Different? A Project of the American Anthropological Association

http://www.understandingrace.org/home.html

 

SARAI: South Asia Resources on the Internet

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/southasia/cuvl/

 

Society for Ethnomusicology

http://webdb.iu.edu/sem/scripts/home.cfm

 

Society for Linguistic Anthropology

http://linguisticanthropology.org/

 

Do You Speak American?

http://www.pbs.org/speak/

 

Hip-Hop Linguistics

http://www.hiphoparchive.org/lx/

 

Hip-Hop University

http://hiphoparchive.org/hiphopu/

 

LINGANTH Listserv

http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa

 

Tasveer Ghar

http://www.tasveerghar.net/

 

Study Breaks

 

Fresh Air: "Peabody Award-winning weekday magazine of contemporary arts and issues"

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=13

 

The Root

http://www.theroot.com/

"A daily online magazine that provides thought-provoking commentary on today's news from a variety of black perspectives."  Like Slate.com, with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. as Editor-in-Chief.

 

Great Diagrams in Anthropology, Linguistics, and Social Theory (Flickr pool)

http://www.flickr.com/groups/great_diagrams_in_anthropological_theory/pool/

 

"The Taliban's Secret Photos" (provacative)

http://inmotion.magnumphotos.com/essays/taliban

 

The Texas Observer: "Sharp reporting from the strangest state in the union"

http://www.texasobserver.org/#

 

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