- Theory in Anthropology - http://www.indiana.edu/~wanthro/theory.htm
Descriptions of various subdisciplines of sociocultural anthropology, reviews of trends in anthropological publications, and biographies of some influential anthropologists.
- Anthropology, Gender and Masculinity - http://www.artnet.com.br/~marko
Bilingual site featuring articles, images, news, and links related to the anthropological study of masculinity and gender.
- What is Culture? - http://www.wsu.edu:8001/vcwsu/commons/topics/culture/culture-index.html
A tutorial on the nature of culture and the history of the culture concept.
- Critical Theory and Cultural Studies - http://eserver.org/theory/
"Cultural studies draws from the fields of anthropology, sociology, gender studies, feminism, literary criticism, history and psychoanalysis in order to discuss contemporary texts and cultural practices."
- Anthropology Page - http://geocities.com/gcalla1/anthro.html
Book reviews and short essays.
- Kinship and Social Organization - http://www.umanitoba.ca/faculties/arts/anthropology/kintitle.html
Hypertext tutorial covering descent, kinship terminology, marriage systems, and residence rules. Includes ethnographic examples.
- Cultural Islands - http://folk.uio.no/geirthe/Culturalislands.html
An essay by Thomas Hylland Eriksen that critically examines the metaphors which have underlied anthropological theory and research.
- Anthropological Theories - http://www.as.ua.edu/ant/Faculty/murphy/436/anthros.htm
A guide to anthropological theories and approaches prepared by graduate students of the University of Alabama under the direction of Dr. Michael D. Murphy.
- Symbolic Anthropology - http://www.anthja.com/exersymb3.html
A site that explores the relationship between symbols and a society's cognitive structure, rules of moral conduct and patterns of social interactions.
- The Third Culture - http://www.faculty.rsu.edu/~felwell/Ecology/ecoweb.htm
A directory of links and resources for understanding cultural ecology.
- Rites of Passage across Cultures - http://clla.tamu.edu/passage/lbar181/
An annotated directory of links and course outline examining the anthropological and psychological elements involved in initiation ceremonies.
- Introduction: Everyday Life - http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m2267/1_66/54668862/print.jhtml
An article that discusses how anthropology brings to light many similarities between ancient and modern cultures, particularly in customs surrounding food.
- Womanist Epistemology and a New Anthropological Paradigm - http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m2096/4_48/54064297/print.jhtml
African American women's experiences of oppression and marginalization have led them to espouse a religious framework that would give them the regard society has deprived them.
- Brand You - http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m1111/1790_299/55165218/print.jhtml
An article that describes using anthropological data for advertising commercial products.
- Social and Cultural Anthropology - http://www2.lib.udel.edu/subj/anth/soccult/internet.htm
A annotated guide to Internet resources from the University of Delaware.
- Anthropology Resource Base - http://www.nativeweb.org/resources/anthropology_archeology/
Resources for indigenous cultures around the world provided by NativeWeb.
- Cross-cultural Psychology - http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/g2699/0000/2699000080/print.jhtml
A subfield of psychological anthropology concerned with observing human behavior in contrasting cultures.
- Culture and Developmental Subjectivities - http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m2267/n2_v65/20964253/print.jhtml
An article that describes how anthropologists and historians have attempted to understand and explore the cultural and textual sources of sexual analysis from a holistic perspective.
- Raising Trust - http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m1200/1_158/63692736/print.jhtml
An article that describes how some forager groups may nurture a sharing sense in their offspring.
- Dueling Banners - http://www.smithsonianmag.si.edu/smithsonian/issues01/aug01/ghana_flags.html
A Smithsonian Magazine article that describes how proverbs in the Asafo war flags of Ghana show Western influence.
- Social and Cultural Evolution - http://www.socio.ch/evo/index_evo.htm
A directory of links to research papers that discuss general theoretical approaches and models of culture change.
- Human Universals - http://cognet.mit.edu/MITECS/Entry/brown.html
Donald Brown discusses those features of culture for which there are no known exceptions to their existence in all ethnographically or historically recorded human societies.
- Game Killing and Killing Games - http://www.psyeta.org/sa/sa1.2/dahles.html
Heidi Dahles discusses the anthropology of power relations in modern hunting in western society.
- Slovenian Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology - http://www.benjaminbezek.net/etnologija/ethnology.htm
A portal dedicated to preserving national traditions and promoting research. Offers photos, articles, and fieldwork reports, as well as a calendar of local events.
- Hip Hop Barbers - http://www.wm.edu/CAS/anthropology/faculty/Weiss/index.html
Research into the influence of popular culture on the decoration of barber shops in Arusha, Tanzania by Brad Weiss, of the College of William and Mary. Features photos with brief captions.
- Anthropology and Resistance - http://www.geocities.com/anthropologyresistance/
A collection of articles that examine issues of power, exploitation and resistance from an anthropological perspective.
- Culture by Commotion Trilogy - http://www.cultureby.com
Online version of the series of books that include: Plenitude, Transformation, Commotion. The series offers an anthropological account of modern life by Grant McCracken.
- Circumpolar Ethnographic Field School - http://anthro.unbc.ca
Features information and contact details for the project hosted by the University of Northern British Columbia. Summer 2003.
- Implosion - http://home.worldcom.ch/~negenter/
Research in architecture on the phenomenology of space of O. F. Bollnow. [in English, French and German].
- Growing up Sexually - http://www2.rz.hu-berlin.de/sexology/GESUND/ARCHIV/GUS/GUS_AFS.HTM
Encyclopedia features cross-cultural information on sexual behavior development. Offers researchers the opportunity to participate in the project and bibliography.
- Sound and Society - http://www.upsaid.com/proquet
Paul Roquet's project comparing the acoustic ecology of living places in the Cook Islands, Fiji, Tonga, New Zealand, Australia, Malaysia, Nepal, and Bhutan. Features research proposal, bibliography and guestbook.
- Center for Cross-Cultural Research - http://www.anu.edu.au/culture/
Dedicated to fostering and disseminating comparative research. Features news, staff profiles, events and contacts at the Australian National University.
- Cultural Observations Database - http://www.cultures.org
Open content project collecting observations made by travelers on behavior in other cultures. Features project description, technical details, and contacts.
- Cross-Culture Theory Test - http://homepage3.nifty.com/cctest/
Features software and data for comparative ethnographic analysis.
- Opus corpus: Anthropology of the Corporal Appearances - http://incubadora.fapesp.br/sites/opuscorpus/
Features articles by St�ephane Malysse on understanding the social and cultural logics made visible by the human body. Requires Flash. In English, French and Portuguese.
- AnthroCommons - http://culturalheritageinternational.org/anthrocommons/
Virtual conference facility for the American Anthropological Association. Offers meeting abstracts, and conference papers.
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