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Search the archive with SIRIS for anthropological fieldnotes, journals, manuscripts, photographs, moving images, sound recordings, artwork, maps, and more than 60,000 digital images

The Language and Gender Page

http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/faculty/bucholtz/lng/

People, publications, organizations, conferences, and resources in language and gender studies

Language Policy Web Site & Emporium (James Crawford)

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/JWCrawford/

Project Narrative at The Ohio State University

http://projectnarrative.osu.edu/

also see the Center for Folklore Studies http://cfs.osu.edu/

Resources for Discourse Studies (Teun van Dijk)

http://www.discourses.org/Resources.html

Social Science Research Network

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/displayabstractsearch.cfm

Audio-Visual

Audio

AAA podcast (American Anthropology Association) Bi-weekly

http://aaanet.org/issues/AAA-Podcast-Series.cfm
SfAA (Society for Applied Anthropology) Podcast

http://feeds.feedburner.com/PodcastsFromTheSfaa
AnthroCast: An occasional anthropology podcast.

http://www.anthrocast.com/

Anthropology 118/285 SP: A series of lectures by archaeologist Colin Renfrew at UCLA

http://podcast.oid.ucla.edu/courses/2005-2006/2006winter/anthro118/podcast.xml

Anthropology 320: Studies in Hunter-Gatherer Archaeology (Robert W. Park)

http://anthropology.uwaterloo.ca/anthpodcasts/ANTH320.xml

Audio files of a five-part lecture by Alfred Kroeber on Sex and Natural History in 1956.

Video

Doing Anthropology

http://techtv.mit.edu/file/663/

A video by the MIT anthropology department on what it means to do anthropology and ethnographic fieldwork

Can Apes Really Talk? (Slate Video)

http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid988327350/bclid1037705321/bctid1630417590

An interview with Rob Schumaker and his non-human primate colleagues. A brief history of the animal language debate, and its current status in anthropology/linguistics/primate studies

Peter Rose: Vox 13 Series

http://www.ubu.com/film/rose.html

"A grand circumnavigation of the subject of language"

Interviews With Leading Thinkers in Anthropology (Alan MacFarlane)

http://www.alanmacfarlane.com/ancestors/audiovisual.html

Berkeley Media Resources Center: Levi-Strauss on The Birth of Historical Societies, Margaret Mead on Female Creativity, and Foucault on Culture and Self. (Real Audio stream)

People

People Who Maintain Useful Websites

Alan Macfarlane

http://www.alanmacfarlane.com/

Videos, documents, classes, lectures … A staggering amount of material. Great for the professional socialization of anthropology students

Richard Wilk (Proseminar in Sociocultural Anthropology)

http://www.indiana.edu/~wanthro/sociocultural_theory.htm

"This site provides resources for student and professional anthropologists interested in learning more about the discipline and its recent history." Much of the material has been written collaboratively with graduate students of Richard Wilk (Indiana University Bloomington) beginning in 1995

Heroes of Our Age (a very partial list mainly based on current interests)

Alessandro Duranti (linguistic anthropology)

http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/anthro/faculty/duranti/

Howard Gardner (education)

http://www.howardgardner.com

Kenneth Gergen (discursive constructionism, social psychology)

http://www.swarthmore.edu/SocSci/kgergen1/web/page.phtml?st=home&id=home

Charles Goodwin (applied linguistics, discourse analysis)

http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/clic/cgoodwin/publish.htm

Marjorie Goodwin (linguistic anthropology)

http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/anthro/faculty/goodwin/

John Heritage (conversation analysis)

http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/clic/heritage/

Jonathan Mark Kenoyer (Indus Valley archeology)

http://www.harappa.com/indus3/kenoyer.html

http://www.harappa.com/

George Lakoff (Rockridge Institute and moral politics)

http://www.rockridgeinstitute.org/people/lakoff

Beth Mertz (legal and linguistic anthropology)

http://law.wisc.edu/faculty/biog.php?iID=454

http://www.abf-sociolegal.org/resmertz.html

John Rickford (sociolinguistics, Ebonics)

http://www.stanford.edu/~rickford/

Writings on Ebonics and other papers

Teun van Dijk (discourse studies and links to discourse journals, research, and projects)

http://www.discourses.org

Stanton Wortham (linguistic anthropology, education)

http://www.gse.upenn.edu/~stantonw/

Tools

Digital Research Tools Wiki (Lisa Spiro, Rice University)

http://digitalresearchtools.pbwiki.com/

Geeni: A Collaborative Kinship Chart Editor

http://www.geni.com/

Kinship Chart Editor

http://era.anthropology.ac.uk/Kinship/index.html

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=171676 (standalone version for download)

The Linguist's Search Engine (University of Maryland)

http://lse.umiacs.umd.edu:8080/lse/query.pl

"Linguist's Search Engine" is a web-based program that parses sentences and generates syntactic tree diagrams automatically. To log into LSE, the username is 'guest' and the password is 'guest'.

University of Texas Libraries' Map Collection

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/

SIMILE

http://simile.mit.edu/

Open-source tools for diagrams, timeplots, semantic webs, and other things …

Transcription of Interaction

http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/projects/transcription/index.html

Resources for the representation of linguistic interaction

TreeForm

http://www.ece.ubc.ca/~donaldd/treeform.htm

The only free program for drawing syntactic tree diagrams

Classics

Filmed Interviews and Lectures with Leading Thinkers (many in anthropology)

http://www.alanmacfarlane.com/ancestors/audiovisual.html

Anthro Classics available online

http://savageminds.org/2007/02/07/more-anthro-classics-on-google/

HyperGeertz WorldCatalogue

http://www.iwp.uni-linz.ac.at/lxe/sektktf/gg/HyperGeertz-1950-1959.htm

Miscellaneous

American Anthropological Association

http://www.aaanet.org/

American Dialect Society (including the ADS-L Email List and DARE, the Dictionary of American Regional English)

http://www.americandialect.org/

Anthropological Theory Timeline (Internet Explorer only)

http://abo46n2.googlepages.com/timeline.htm

Anthropology Conference Alerts

http://www.conferencealerts.com/anthropology.htm

The Discourse Studies List (ListServ)

discours@listserv.linguistlist.org

Linguistic Society of America

http://www.lsadc.org/

Linguistics and the Language Sciences (American Association for the Advancement of Science)

http://www.aaas.org/aboutaaas/organization/sections/ling.shtml

RACE - Are We So Different? A Project of the American Anthropological Association

http://www.understandingrace.org/home.html

SARAI: South Asia Resources on the Internet

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/southasia/cuvl/

Society for Ethnomusicology

http://webdb.iu.edu/sem/scripts/home.cfm

Society for Linguistic Anthropology

http://linguisticanthropology.org/

Do You Speak American?

http://www.pbs.org/speak/

Hip-Hop Linguistics

http://www.hiphoparchive.org/lx/

Hip-Hop University

http://hiphoparchive.org/hiphopu/

LINGANTH Listserv

http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa

Tasveer Ghar

http://www.tasveerghar.net/

Study Breaks

Fresh Air: "Peabody Award-winning weekday magazine of contemporary arts and issues"

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=13

The Root

http://www.theroot.com/

"A daily online magazine that provides thought-provoking commentary on today's news from a variety of black perspectives." Like Slate.com -- with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. as Editor-in-Chief.

Great Diagrams in Anthropology, Linguistics, and Social Theory (Flickr pool)

http://www.flickr.com/groups/great_diagrams_in_anthropological_theory/pool/

"The Taliban's Secret Photos" (provacative)

http://inmotion.magnumphotos.com/essays/taliban

The Texas Observer: "Sharp reporting from the strangest state in the union"

http://www.texasobserver.org/#