Cultural Anthropology News Archive - Collection of links to media articles from Texas A&M

CRM: International Councils and Treaties - "Internet resources related to cultural protection and cultural resource management. Pointers to international councils and treaties."

Alfonso Ortiz Center for Intercultural Studies - Description of a program intended to promote the participation of community scholars, artists, healers, performers, and writers at the University of New Mexico through collaborative projects with faculty, museum professionals, and students.

Theory in Anthropology - Descriptions of various subdisciplines of sociocultural anthropology, reviews of trends in anthropological publications, and biographies of some influential anthropologists.

Anthropology, Gender and Masculinity - Bilingual site featuring articles, images, news, and links related to the anthropological study of masculinity and gender.

Cross-Cultural Explorations and Dialogue - Manuals, tutorials and information on cross-cultural communication prepared by the Institute of Baltic Studies and the Open Estonia Foundation.

What is Culture? - A tutorial on the nature of culture and the history of the culture concept.

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."

Anthropology Page - Book reviews and short essays.

A Journey Through The Culture of Capitalism - Explores capitalism as a cultural phenomenon rather than an economic philosophy.

Kinship and Social Organization - Hypertext tutorial covering descent, kinship terminology, marriage systems, and residence rules. Includes ethnographic examples.

Kinship Glossary: Symbols, Term, and Concepts - Definitions of basic terminology and list of common abbreviations.

Cultural Islands - An essay by Thomas Hylland Eriksen that critically examines the metaphors which have underlied anthropological theory and research.

Barthelemy Collection of Tarascan Folklife - Virtual museum of crafts of the Tarascan people from the Mexican State of Michoacan.

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.

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.

The Third Culture - A directory of links and resources for understanding cultural ecology.

Silence, AIDS and Sexual Culture in Africa - An article describing social factors in the AIDS epidemic in Africa.

World Food Habits Bibliography - Bibliographies sorted by region and topic prepared by Robert Dirks.

Rites of Passage across Cultures - An annotated directory of links and course outline examining the anthropological and psychological elements involved in initiation ceremonies.

Introduction: Everyday Life - 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 - 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. This article advocates an anthropology that presents these people's history and culture from their own perspectives.

Brand You - An article that describes using anthropological data for advertising commercial products.

Social and Cultural Anthropology - A annotated guide to Internet resources from the University of Delaware.

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.

Anthropology Resource Base - Resources for indigenous cultures around the world provided by NativeWeb.

Anthropology and Colonial Administration in New Guinea - An article by I.C. Campbell from the Journal of Pacific History that describes Australia attempts to improve the quality of its 'native administration' staff during the 1920s in Papua and New Guinea by appointing government anthropologists.

Cross-cultural Psychology - A subfield of psychological anthropology concerned with observing human behavior in contrasting cultures.

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.

Raising Trust - An article that describes how some forager groups may nurture a sharing sense in their offspring.

Could you survive as a hunter gatherer? - A simulation that tests the user's skill at obtaining wild foods.

Dueling Banners - A Smithsonian Magazine article that describes how proverbs in the Asafo war flags of Ghana show Western influence.

Cultural Evolution and the Variable Phenotype - William Harms critiques attempts to extend the theory of evolution to culture.

Social and Cultural Evolution - A directory of links to research papers that discuss general theoretical approaches and models of culture change.

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.

Game Killing and Killing Games - Heidi Dahles discusses the anthropology of power relations in modern hunting in western society.

Homo Reciprocans: Political Economy and Cultural Evolution - Cosma Rohilla Shalizi discusses the theoretical implications of reciprocity for cultural evolution in this article.

25th Annual Conference of the Society of Ethnobiology - Meeting hosted by the University of Connecticut, Storrs, March 6-9, 2002. Features abstracts, registration materials, and lodging and transportation information.