Cultural Anthropology

Center for Cross-Cultural Research - Dedicated to fostering and disseminating comparative research. Features news, staff profiles, events and contacts at the Australian National University.
http://www.anu.edu.au/culture/

Growing up Sexually - Encyclopedia features cross-cultural information on sexual behavior development. Offers researchers the opportunity to participate in the project and bibliography.
http://www2.rz.hu-berlin.de/sexology/GESUND/ARCHIV/GUS/GUS_AFS.HTM

What is Culture? - A tutorial on the nature of culture and the history of the culture concept.
http://www.wsu.edu/gened/learn-modules/top_culture/culture-index.html

World Food Habits Bibliography - Bibliographies sorted by region and topic prepared by Robert Dirks.
http://lilt.ilstu.edu/rtdirks/

Anthropology Page - Book reviews and short essays.
http://geocities.com/gcalla1/anthro.html

Womanist Epistemology and a New Anthropological Paradigm - 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.
http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m2096/4_48/54064297/print.jhtml

Cross-Culture Theory Test - Features software and data for comparative ethnographic analysis.
http://homepage3.nifty.com/cctest/

Rites of Passage across Cultures - An annotated directory of links and course outline examining the anthropological and psychological elements involved in initiation ceremonies.
http://clla.tamu.edu/passage/lbar181/

Symbolic Anthropology - A site that explores the relationship between symbols and a society's cognitive structure, rules of moral conduct and patterns of social interactions.
http://www.anthja.com/exersymb3.html

Jon's Anthropology Blog - Collection of articles for students, including lecture materials for cognitive anthropology
http://jon.anywherediary.com

Anthropology, Gender and Masculinity - Bilingual site featuring articles, images, news, and links related to the anthropological study of masculinity and gender.
http://www.artnet.com.br/~marko

Game Killing and Killing Games - Heidi Dahles discusses the anthropology of power relations in modern hunting in western society.
http://www.psyeta.org/sa/sa1.2/dahles.html

Raising Trust - An article that describes how some forager groups may nurture a sharing sense in their offspring.
http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m1200/1_158/63692736/print.jhtml

Theory in Anthropology - Descriptions of various subdisciplines of sociocultural anthropology, reviews of trends in anthropological publications, and biographies of some influential anthropologists.
http://www.indiana.edu/~wanthro/theory.htm

Symbolic Power Struggles in Inter-cultural Space - A lecture given by Thomas Hylland Eriksen at the symposium "Culture in the Global Village", Lund, Sweden, 14-16 January, 1993.
http://www.uio.no/~geirthe/Symbolic.html

Slovenian Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology - A portal dedicated to preserving national traditions and promoting research. Offers photos, articles, and fieldwork reports, as well as a calendar of local events.
http://www.benjaminbezek.net/etnologija/ethnology.htm

Kinship Glossary: Symbols, Term, and Concepts - Definitions of basic terminology and list of common abbreviations.
http://www.as.ua.edu/ant/Faculty/murphy/436/kinship.htm

AnthroCommons - Virtual conference facility for the American Anthropological Association. Offers meeting abstracts, and conference papers.
http://www.worldarchaeologicalcongress.org/anthrocommons/

Kinship and Social Organization - Hypertext tutorial covering descent, kinship terminology, marriage systems, and residence rules. Includes ethnographic examples.
http://www.umanitoba.ca/faculties/arts/anthropology/kintitle.html

Anthropology Resource Base - Resources for indigenous cultures around the world provided by NativeWeb.
http://www.nativeweb.org/resources/anthropology_archeology/

The Third Culture - A directory of links and resources for understanding cultural ecology.
http://www.faculty.rsu.edu/~felwell/Ecology/ecoweb.htm

Sound and Society - 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.
http://www.upsaid.com/proquet

Anthropological Theories - A guide to anthropological theories and approaches prepared by graduate students of the University of Alabama under the direction of Dr. Michael D. Murphy.
http://www.as.ua.edu/ant/Faculty/murphy/436/anthros.htm

Cultural Islands - An essay by Thomas Hylland Eriksen that critically examines the metaphors which have underlied anthropological theory and research.
http://folk.uio.no/geirthe/Culturalislands.html

Opus corpus: Anthropology of the Corporal Appearances - 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.
http://incubadora.fapesp.br/sites/opuscorpus/

The Aesthetic Realism of Eli Siegel - Essays in cultural anthropology on the philosophy of Aesthetic Realism.
http://www.perey-anthropology.net/

Critical Theory and Cultural Studies - "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."
http://eserver.org/theory/

Culture by Commotion Trilogy - Online version of the series of books that include: Plenitude, Transformation, Commotion. The series offers an anthropological account of modern life by Grant McCracken.
http://www.cultureby.com

Circumpolar Ethnographic Field School - Features information and contact details for the project hosted by the University of Northern British Columbia. Summer 2003.
http://anthro.unbc.ca

Introduction: Everyday Life - An article that discusses how anthropology brings to light many similarities between ancient and modern cultures, particularly in customs surrounding food.
http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m2267/1_66/54668862/print.jhtml

Silence, AIDS and Sexual Culture in Africa - An article describing social factors in the AIDS epidemic in Africa.
http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m2872/1_27/71563341/print.jhtml

Cross-cultural Psychology - A subfield of psychological anthropology concerned with observing human behavior in contrasting cultures.
http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/g2699/0000/2699000080/print.jhtml

Culture and Developmental Subjectivities - 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.
http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m2267/n2_v65/20964253/print.jhtml

Social and Cultural Evolution - A directory of links to research papers that discuss general theoretical approaches and models of culture change.
http://www.socio.ch/evo/index_evo.htm

Brand You - An article that describes using anthropological data for advertising commercial products.
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0DTI/is_2_32/ai_n6040830

Social and Cultural Anthropology - An annotated guide to Internet resources from the University of Delaware.
http://www2.lib.udel.edu/subj/anth/soccult/internet.htm

Cultures Observations Database - Open content project collecting observations made by travelers on behavior in other cultures. Features project description, technical details, and contacts.
http://www.cultures.org/

Hip Hop Barbers - 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.
http://www.wm.edu/anthropology/faculty/weiss/

A Journey Through The Culture of Capitalism - Explores capitalism as a cultural phenomenon rather than an economic philosophy.
http://www.westelcom.com/users/bobbieg

Human Universals - 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.
http://cognet.mit.edu/MITECS/Entry/brown.html

Implosion - Research in architecture on the phenomenology of space of O. F. Bollnow. [in English, French and German].
http://home.worldcom.ch/~negenter/