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The Aesthetic Realism of Eli Siegel

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

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

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

What is Culture?

A tutorial on the nature of culture and the history of the culture concept.
http://www.wsu.edu:8001/vcwsu/commons/topics/culture/culture-index.html

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/

Anthropology Page

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

A Journey Through The Culture of Capitalism

Explores capitalism as a cultural phenomenon rather than an economic philosophy.
http://www.westelcom.com/users/bobbieg

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

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

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

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
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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

The Third Culture

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

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

World Food Habits Bibliography

Bibliographies sorted by region and topic prepared by Robert Dirks.
http://lilt.ilstu.edu/rtdirks/

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/

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

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

Brand You

An article that describes using anthropological data for advertising commercial products.
http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m1111/1790_299/55165218/print.jhtml

Social and Cultural Anthropology

A annotated guide to Internet resources from the University of Delaware.
http://www2.lib.udel.edu/subj/anth/soccult/internet.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

Anthropology Resource Base

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

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

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

Dueling Banners

A Smithsonian Magazine article that describes how proverbs in the Asafo war flags of Ghana show Western influence.
http://www.smithsonianmag.si.edu/smithsonian/issues01/aug01/ghana_flags.html

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

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

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

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.
http://www.ethnobiology.org/ethnobiology2002

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

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/CAS/anthropology/faculty/Weiss/index.html

Anthropology and Resistance

A collection of articles that examine issues of power, exploitation and resistance from an anthropological perspective.
http://www.geocities.com/anthropologyresistance/

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

Implosion

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

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

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

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/

Cultural 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

Cross-Culture Theory Test

Features software and data for comparative ethnographic analysis.
http://homepage3.nifty.com/cctest/

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/

AnthroCommons

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

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