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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