Anthropology

Study of the origin, the behavior, and the physical, social, and cultural development of human beings.

Resources in this category:

Anthropoetics: The Journal of Generative Anthropology
http://www.anthropoetics.ucla.edu/anthro.htm

"In contrast to fashionable methodologies that dissolve the human in the fractal complexity of cultural differences, generative anthropology (GA) attempts to understand cultural phenomena in the simplest terms possible: all things human are traced back to their source in the hypothetical scene of origin in which human beings as sign-using creatures first emerged. The originary hypothesis of GA is that human language begins as an aborted gesture of appropriation representing--and thereby renouncing as sacred--an object of potential mimetic rivalry. The strength of our mimetic intelligence makes us the only creatures for whom intraspecific violence is a greater threat to survival than the external forces of nature. Human language defers potential conflict by permitting each to possess the sign of the unpossessable object of desire--the deferral of violence through representation. GA seeks to transcend the impasse between the humanities, imprisoned in the 'always already' of our cultural systems, and the empirical social sciences, which cannot model the paradoxical generativity of these systems. The originary hypothesis provides the basis for rethinking every aspect of the human, from language to art, from religion to political organization. Anthropoetics is dedicated to this rethinking both for its intrinsic importance and as a framework for literary and cultural analysis. The editors of Anthropoetics hope to stimulate the continuing interest in GA and to encourage productive dialogue between the humanities and the human sciences."

Culture and Tradition
http://www.ucs.mun.ca/~culture/

Culture and Tradition is a bilingual folklore journal published by the folklore graduate students at Memorial University, St. John's Newfoundland. The serial covers topics such as traditional folk art, music, food, architecture, belief systems, psychology and the social structures of the diverse regional, ethnic, religious, and industrial groups of Canada. The web site distributes information concerning publication announcements, call for papers, and so on; serves as a site for the Culture and Tradition Newsletter archive; functions as a forum for Canadian folklore students to share information; and to provide WWW connections to relevant sites that would be of interest to graduate students in folklore and ethnology.

Ethnomusicology Online
http://research.umbc.edu/eol/

Ethnomusicology Online is a full text online scholarly resource on ethnomusicology. The articles are peer-reviewed and include graphics, audio, or video. They include reviews of audio, video or multimedia titles. The page also includes enhanced Ph.D. dissertations that have graphics, audio, and video. The scope of Ethnomusicology includes anything related to the subject and includes links to non-reviewed articles and other sites including ethnomusicology teaching pages.

Folklife Center News
gopher://marvel.loc.gov:70/11/research/reading.rooms/folklif...

The Folklife Center News is a newsletter that publishes print and on-line articles concerning the programs and activities of the American Folklife Center of the Library of Congress as well as other pieces on traditional American folklife. The Gopher Menu has a search engine and back issues are archived from 1992 to the present.

Folklore
http://haldjas.folklore.ee/folklore/

The e-journal contains "articles about shamanism, urban legends, ethnomusicology, pareomiology, popular calendar data and folk belief ... The journal is intentionally academical. We are doing our best to use all the many-sided possibilities an Internet publication has... In Folklore, researches of all genres of folklore will be published, all articles on mythology, religion and customs, paremiology, narratives, poetic folklore, ethnomusicology, etc. are welcome."

Journal of World Anthropology
http://wings.buffalo.edu/anthropology/JWA/

"The Journal of World Anthropology (JWA) is a scholarly journal. Our goal is to be the general, broad-based anthropology journal of the internet. JWA covers all aspects of anthropology (physical, social, cultural, linguistic, applied anthropology, archaeometry, and archaeology) and related disciplines of the hard and soft sciences, and the humanities. We publish articles, research updates, reviews, and editorial commentary." This onliine full text journal is going to be shelved and replaced by "The Anthropological Review Databse" (ARD). However the online full text issues of JWA have been archived since 1994 to the present are accessible and contain articles that wouild be of interest to anthropologists and other social scientists.

KACIKE: Journal of Caribbean Amerindian History and Anthropology
http://www.kacike.org/

"The main purpose of this serial is to gather in one primary forum, ungoing research and writing on Caribbean Amerindians. It features an historical dimension to the study of Caribbean Amerindian society and culture, extending before 1492 and after. Looking through the challenging and complex lens of the Caribbean Amerindian presence, its aim is to discover more about colonial and modern Caribbean society, the concept of tradition, political economy, globalization and the production of localities and the transnational rearticulation of identities."

Music & Anthropology
http://www.muspe.unibo.it/period/ma/index1.htm

Music and Anthropology is an online multimedia peer-reviewed journal, and is the online presence of the "Journal of Mediterranean Musical Anthropology". The site is hosted and supported by the University of Bologna (Italy). Back issues to 1996 are available.

Omertaa: Journal for Applied Anthropology
http://www.omertaa.org/

Published by Expeditions, Research in Applied Anthropology, a research firm, this "international peer reviewed journal, with an academic board, publishing on issues which belong to the broader field of Applied Anthropology and related issues."

Revista de Antropologia Experimental
http://www.ujaen.es/huesped/rae/

An e-zine covering the field of experimental anthropolgy

TRACCE On Line Rock Art Bulletin
http://rupestre.net/tracce/

TRACCE contains "all kind of Rock Art related papers: rocks, sites, cultures, dating, recording, imaging, interpretation, new findings, conservation problems."