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Man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun…
Max Weber from Cliffard Geertz
This is another personal site dedicated to preserving Native American earth mother prayers. Links are provided to various people’s prayers accompanied by natual history photographs that invoke the spirit of the poems.
The Society for Applied Anthropology maintains this Web site to provide information about its activities. Links include various research papers, meetings, courses of study, and employment. An extremely comprehensive collection of materials on the topic.
A beautifully designed site dedicated to sharing information pertaining to the teaching of Anthropology at secondary schools and community colleges. Teaching materials, course outlines, and a a huge collection of related links are provided via clever hominid skull graphics.
This is the oldest site containing Anthropological resources on the Web. The site is supported by the Center for Social Anthropology and Computing and contains information on research projects, information resources, calendar of events of interest to anthropologists, and transcripts of talks on various topics of interest. You can perform keyword-based searches of CSAC’s archives, bibliographies, and theses.
This is a personal site designed with the assistance of Sergei Naumov and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The site provides cultural information on the “Rus” people including their music, humor, folktales, and more. Note that most of the materials on the server are in Russian. Software is provided as well as instructions on how to display Cyrillic type in your browser.
This is an ongoing exercise to build a comprehensive pictoral and textual encyclopedia of all of the world’s mythology. Entries are provided by both subject and alphabetical order. Accomodation is provided for those browsers that cannot handle frames.
A professionally developed site providing information for both the dilitente and professional ethnographer on both the material and cultural aspects of indigenous peoples. Emphasis is placed on reviewing ethnographic sites based on their usefulness and accuracy. Links are organized by ethnographic subject, such as fashions, music, books, museums, art dealers, and so forth.
A gorgeously graphic site providing insite into ongoing research by Dr. Laura Zimmer-Tamakoshil in Papua New Guinea. The frame-based site provides information on planning, resources, writing research proposals, logistics, and actual field notes during her experience.
Glen Welker is collecting indigenous people’s folklore in a comprehensive archive organized by indigenous people. Stories can be viewed using Adobe Acrobat. English and Spanish versions of the site are provided.
A very spare site that contains a collection of links to other Anthropology-related sites. Very dull.
A beautiful site providing links to mesoamerican anthropology pages. The page does have a decided political bent in support of the many indigenous revolutions occuring in Central America.
This site presents an academic compendium of information concerning Nereids (water nymphs) as they were used in Roman mosaics. The site is written in French with very few links to anywhere else.
This is the front-end to an extensive database of Mayan glyphs and their linguistic meanings. The site lets you enter verbal values and see the corresponding Mayan glyph. An excellent tool for translating epigraphic materials.
This is a bare-bones site dedicated to collecting links to Web sites, published articles, and analytical sites dealing with myths and legends. The site is updated often as the collection grows.
This is one of the most beautiful sites on the Internet. Rabbit In the Moon is dedicated to sharing up-to-date information about the Classic Maya. Links are provided to pages explaining Mayan glyphs and writing, architecture, languages, academic meetings, and other Mayan sites. The Rabbit In the Moon site provides interactive games to teach about Mayan writing and calendrics, projects to teach about architecture, as well as a search engine.
This is an extremely comprehensive collection of information about evolution, paleontology, and ancient life throughout the world. Links included on the Page include Journals and Publications, various search engines for other Paleontology sites, FAQs, career information, and dictionaries.