Anthropology

Anthropology News is the American Anthropological Association’s award-winning member magazine.

The AAA is the most important organization for anthropologists in the United States. It is a good starting point for anyone wanting to understand the values, issues and trends that predominate in the field of anthropology today. The website is a good source of information about news and people as well as publications and resources related to anthropology.

Searchable, multilingual database of anthropological texts provides the ability to browse by title, region, theme, citation, or collections.

Anthropology News provides timely and important links to news stories that are drawn from a variety of sources. Each story includes the source and the date that the story originally appeared. The site is not only informative and entertaining, it is a good way to keep abreast of recent issues and discoveries in the field.

This is a collection of anthropological teaching tools that can be used in classroom settings and includes definitions, socio-cultural anthropology, archaeology, biological anthropology, linguistic anthropology, and related topics.

The American Anthropological Association has curated a collection of links covering topics such as archaeology, biological and physical anthropology, ethnography, listservs, discussion groups, online journals, libraries, museums, organizations and institutes, news and media, and visual anthropology.

Anthro{dendum} is a group blog devoted to ‘doing anthropology in public’ — providing well-written relevant discussion of sociocultural anthropology that everyone will find accessible. The authors range from graduate students to tenured professors to anthropologists working outside the academy.

This site provides information about careers in academia, museums, zoos, and forensic science.

Explaining Human Culture provides a way for researchers to uncover the tentative answers from over 1000 cross-cultural studies by searching for topics of interest. It also includes topical summaries of what has been learned from cross-cultural research, or more precisely, what we think we know, and to point out some of the things we do not yet know.

FAMSI's dedication to research and online collaboration over the past two decades has made it an invaluable tool for pre-Columbian studies internationally and the principal source for research of ancient cultures.

This site features a list of open access journals in Anthropology and related fields. It includes English language publications and several European language publications.

The National Association of Student Anthropologists (NASA) is the student section of the American Anthropological Association. NASA was founded in 1985 to address graduate and undergraduate student concerns and to promote the interests and involvement of students as anthropologists-in-training. NASA is a four-field network of students, which directly addresses issues that are of interest to both undergraduate and graduate students — including finding jobs, attending graduate school, fieldwork programs, and networking.

Here you will find a collection of anthropology resources for teaching, learning, and research released under an open license that permits their free use and repurposing by others.

This site provides information about membership, conferences, publications, and job positions related to applied anthropology.

The Society for Cultural Anthropology, a section of the American Anthropological Association, constitutes a continuing effort to think expansively about the anthropological endeavor. That is, to explore how different people inhabit the imponderabilia of everyday life, to situate how they navigate conditions of both possibility and constraint, and to remain both ethnographically engaged and theoretically pioneering.