Web Resources for Anthropology Students (Sociocultural and Linguistic)
A list compiled in 2008 by John Curran and Maggie Ronkin
Research Blogs
DIRECTORY
http://www.academicblogs.org/wiki/index.php/Anthropology
Savage Minds
www.savageminds.org
Open Access Anthropology
http://blog.openaccessanthropology.org/
Language Log
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/
Project Narrative Weblog (Ohio State University)
http://projectnarrative.wordpress.com/
Anthropology Conference Alerts
http://www.conferencealerts.com/anthropology.htm
antropologi.info - Anthropology newspaper
http://www.antropologi.info/blog/
an aggregator of anthropology blogs updated every 4 hours
Linguistic Anthropology Blog
http://linganth.blogspot.com/
Anthropology Blog Search (Google)
http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=010601212192642111327%3Ac5ick0mhmhm
Search Engines & 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
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
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/
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
- Anthropology 320: Studies in Hunter-Gatherer Archaeology (Robert W. Park)
http://anthropology.uwaterloo.ca/anthpodcasts/ANTH320.xml
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. Read Audio needed to listen
People
People Who Maintain Useful Websites
Jen Cardew (Synthesis of Thought)
http://www.anthroblogs.org/jcardew/
(Annotate)
Alex Golub
http://alex.golub.name/
(LEADS TO MORE RESOURCES)
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 mainly based on current interests)
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 (a very partial list)
The University of Texas Libraries' Map Collection
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/
Kinship Chart Editor
http://era.anthropology.ac.uk/Kinship/index.html
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=171676 (standalone version for download)
Geeni: A Collaborative Kinship Chart Editor
http://www.geni.com/
Transcription in Action
http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/projects/transcription/index.html
Resources for the representation of linguistic interaction
The Linguist's Search Engine (University of Maryland)
http://lse.umiacs.umd.edu:8080/lse/query.pl
SIMILE
http://simile.mit.edu/
Open-source tools for diagrams, timeplots, semantic webs, and other things …
TreeForm
http://www.ece.ubc.ca/~donaldd/treeform.htm
The only free program for drawing syntactic tree diagrams
An automatic sentence parser that makes respectable-looking syntactic tree diagrams
The username is 'guest' and the password is 'guest'
Custom Search Engine
http://www.google.com/coop/cse/
Classics (a very partial list)
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
Linguistic Society of America
http://www.lsadc.org/
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
The Discourse Studies List (ListServ)
discours@listserv.linguistlist.org
Society for Linguistic Anthropology
http://linguisticanthropology.org/
Do You Speak American?
http://www.pbs.org/speak/
Tasveer Ghar
http://www.tasveerghar.net/
Hip-Hop University
http://hiphoparchive.org/hiphopu/
Hip-Hop Linguistics
http://www.hiphoparchive.org/lx/
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 Onion: "America's finest news source"
www.theonion.com
"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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