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Useful SOC and ANTH links
Weblogs for the latest news
Technical help with bibliographies and papers
Professional Organizations (homepages)
Anthropology Departments
Personal Links

Links for Educators:

Anthropology Education Committee - topics for K-14 educators

Links Useful for Student Reseach, General:

U.W. Undergraduate Research Guides (many subjects)
Internet Scout Report (annotated guide to the best web pages with a very useful search engine)
American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) - Learn about how statistics should and should not be used in research.
Sysurvey Research Tips and White Papers - these concern survey construction, delivery, and interpretation. An excellent summary of statistical tests is included.
PhysOrg.com - Science, Technology, Physics, Space News
NationMaster - a positively encyclopedic collection of statistical data on topics relevant to social science and other research
The New York Times Learning Network - many current topics
GPO Access (Government Printing Office Resource List A-Z)
Cambridge University Library - Digital Image Collections - includes 2 sketchbooks from artist accompanying Darwin on HMS Beagle. Other works ranging from 10th century to present.
 

Anthropology - General and Miscellaneous:

Anthropology and Archaeology Resources on the Web - from Iowa State University
Anthrobase - a growing collection of unpublished scholarly papers in anthropology (mostly cultural)
Institute for Global Ethics
Holocaust Museum's Virtual Exhibit on "Deadly Medicine" - Nazi eugenic experiments
Pew Global Attitudes Project - The Pew Research Center
Brown v. Board at Fifty, Library of Congress Exhibit
Office of Justice Programs
Bureau of Justice Statistics
National Criminal Justice Reference Service
Uniform Crime Reports - from the FBI
Cyber Behavior Research Center - for information about internet behavior research
Women's Studies Database - University of Maryland
Elections 2004 from the University of Michigan's Documents Center
Census 2000, from the U.S. Census Bureau
AFL-CIO, the official Unions Collective web site
Tolerance.org, a web project of the Southern Poverty Law Center
"Turning Around Downtown: 12 Steps to Revitalization" - report from the Brookings Institution
Achieve.org - created by governors and business leaders to improve educational standards
Global Issues
Worldwatch Institute
The Carter Center "is committed to advancing human rights and alleviating unnecessary human suffering"
Indepth World News Reporting from PBS's "Frontline"
Justice Learning.org - many current topics
Religious Tolerance
Religion Writers on the Internet - visit their Reference Library
National Geographic Xpedition - for geographical questions and (especially) downloadable maps!
Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History - over 245 research papers, mostly on topics in the Americas, with search engine
Visual Anthropology - many online resource links useful for both instructors and students
Inter Press Service News Agency - excellent source for latest indigenous, environmental, health, medical, etc., news
Cultural Survival.org - news about indigenous rights


Cultural Anthropology:

Afrol News (News from Africa)
AnthroTECH, WWW Virtual Library of Anthropology
Plain Language Version of the Draft Declaration of Indigenous Peoples' Rights, United Nations Working Group (2004)
Cultural Survival, Inc.- News about indigenous peoples
UN-HABITAT, the United Nations Human Settlements Programme - particularly focused on global urbanization
Links on Witchcraft, Magic, and Religion, by Christopher C. Fennell
OriginsNet - created by James Harrod, Ph.D. for the Center for Research on the Origins of Art and Religion
Lest We Forget, the Triumph over Slavery, a Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture project (Focuses on the African slave trade, only, but very informative.)
United Nations Population Fund (main page). "State of World Population Report 2004" (posted document)
International Crisis Group - "working to prevent conflict worldwide"
"Learn about Buddhism" and "Discovering Buddhist Art" - virtual exhibits at the Seattle Art Museum
CASI - Center for the Advanced Study of India from the University of Pennsylvania
Center for Global Development
Sacred Destinations Travel Guide
Center for Christian-Jewish Learning
Rutgers Journal of Law and Religion
Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project
How Marriage Has Changed - listen to the live broadcast by historian Stephanie Coontz (she gives anthropological examples as well), from MPR
About the Foundation for Shamanic Studies
Poverty and Race Research Action Council
The Pacific Northwest Olympic Peninsula Community Museum - web-based museum showcasing Northwest tribes
Omaha Indian Heritage - University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Center for Gender and Refugee Studies - University of California at Hastings
Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development (Public Policy), John F. Kennedy School of Government
UNESCO - Local and Indigenous Knowledge LINKS Project
The United Nations Refugee Agency
British Library Online Gallery of Sacred Contexts
Race—the Power of an Illusion - from PBS


Physical Anthropology:

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
AnthroTECH, WWW Virtual Library of Anthropology
Image Archive on the American Eugenics Movement
Primate News from Primate Info Net
Thinkquest’s “Replicators: Evolutionary Powerhouses”
Career Resources in the Forensic Sciences: An Annotated Bibliography by Katherine B. Killoran
The Paleobiology Database
Forensic Dentristry Online
Visible Proofs: Forensic Views of the Body, from the National Institutes of Health
Pandemic Flu, a public information service of current news and warnings from the U.S. government.
Darwin Exhibit at the AMNH
The Deadly Virus Exhibit - The Influenza Epidemic of 1918
The Complete Works of Charles Darwin Online
JGI Center for Primate Studies (U of MN) - Excellent information for students
Mountain Gorillas (Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International)
Evolution Today: How Does Natural Selection Work? - from the AMNH exhibit
Forensic Anthropology and Human Osteology Resources. (Not all links work.) Try the skull tutorial.
E-Skeletons - excellent interactive site
The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection at the Natural History Museum of London
Instructional Materials from the National Association of Biology Teachers - many topics
The U.S. National Library of Medicine's (NIH) Asian American Health Portal including information on Asian medical practices
Visible Proofs - Forensic Views of the Body, an online exhibit of the history of anthropological and investigative forensics.
Teaching about Evolution and the Nature of Science, from the National Academy Press
"X and Y: Does It Make a Difference?" - BioEd Online Lesson Plan

Environmental Anthropology:

Association for Environmental Archaeology
AnthroTECH, WWW Virtual Library of Anthropology
Climate of Uncertainty, by American Radio Works
Biological Diversity in Food and Agriculture from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre
Test your Ecological Footprint with this online quiz.
NOAA Paleoclimatology, from the National Climatic Data Center (National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration)
Local and Indigenous Knowledge Systems (UNESCO)
The National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service - information on current practices
TUNZA, a magazine of the United Nations Environment Programme
Physicians and Scientists for Responsible Application of Science and Technology - many research links on GE (genetically engineered) and GM (genetically modified) products
What is Sustainable Agriculture? - Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education
International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)
Climate change: A guide for the perplexed - from New Scientist; 26 common misconceptions about climate change
 

Archaeology:

ArchNet
Iraq, from ECAI (Digital Resources on prehistory, history, and culture)
Ancient China, from the British Museum
Lothene Experimental Archaeology - lots of Viking, Anglo-Saxon, and early modern warfare stuff but much more knowledgeable than the usual; British-oriented.
Pompeii: Stories from an Eruption. virtual exhibit from the Field Museum of Chicago.
The Megiddo Expedition, Israel - virtual archaeological dig site from Tel Aviv University.
Mohenjo-Daro, India - great photos!
Antiquities Act 100th Anniversary - History of Preservation in America
Archaeology Atlas - from Sheffield University, England
Archeology Program - from the National Park Service
Bibles before the Year 1000 - virtual exhibit from the Smithsonian
The Giza Archives Project - about the Giza Pyramids in Egypt
Traditions of the Sun - Explore the World's Ancient Observatories (current sites from the Americas)
Listening to Our Ancestors - a Smithsonian virtual exhibit on the Native Art of the Northwest Pacific Coast
Sorcerors of the Fifth Heaven (Nahua of southern Mexico) - Princeton University
Roman Baths at Bath, England. Click here for other links about Roman baths.
CAMEO: Conservation and Art Material Encyclopedia Online, from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
 

Weblogs:
ArchaeologyOnline, by Anita Cohen-Williams (worldwide scope but emphasizes North America)
Archaeology in Europe, by David Beard
Anthropology Blog, by Dienekes Pontikos (includes all fields of anthropology)
John Hawks Weblog – paleoanthropology, genetics, evolution (my personal favorite)

For technical help with writing papers and citing sources:
Bibliography Style Handbook (APA), The Writers' Workshop, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/cws/wworkshop/bibliography_style_handbookapa.htm
A Guide for Writing Research Papers Based on Modern Language Association (MLA) Documentation
Prepared by the Humanities Department and the Arthur C. Banks Jr. Library, CAPITAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE, Hartford, Connecticut
http://www.ccc.commnet.edu/mla/index.shtml

Useful professional organization web sites are:
American Sociological Association
Society for American Archaeology
American Anthropological Association
Council for British Archaeology

Find an Anthropology Department for further study:
Graduate Departments (where there's a graduate degree, there's usually an undergraduate degree!)