SOCIOLOGY 212: Fall 2005 Cultural Anthropology

Internet Resources About Cultures .....Why should I evaluate web sites? .....Using and Evaluating Information Sources .....How can I find other web sites? .....Starting Your Internet Search .....A Select List of Internet Resources .....Citing Information Finding Information Using Library Resources .....Articles and Databases .....Print Resources About Cultures

 

Internet Resources About Cultures

Why should I evaluate web sites? Can't I just trust everyone's website?

• Take a look at the following websites and see if you can trust them:
  • Dog Island: Free Forever
  • Feline Reactions to Bearded Men
  • The Ova Prima Foundation
• Dissing the King ~ a cautionary tale detailing how websites are not always what they see
• The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly: Or, Why It's a Good Idea to Evaluate Web Sources

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Using and Evaluating Information Sources

• The Spider's Apprentice: How to Use Web Search Engines
• The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly: or, Why It's a Good Idea to Evaluate Web Resources
• Five Criteria for Evaluating Web Pages
• Is It a Popular Magazine or a Scholarly Journal?
• Evaluating Web Sites

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How can I find other web sites?

• Use a search engine to find sites on your topic.
  • Hotbot
  • Google
  • Dogpile ~ a metasearch engine, which searches multiple search engines simultaneously
• Others are listed on our Internet Tools and Sites page.

Starting Your Internet Search

• Librarians Index to the Internet ~ This site includes descriptions and evaluations of Web pages and directories. This is a good place to start for information on social topics. Type the name of the issue in the the search box to find web sites.
• INFOMINE: Scholarly Internet Resource Collections - Social Sciences and Humanities ~ This site has a subject browsing area as well as a search box to find information on specific topics.
• BUBL ~ Another listing of select web sites on a number of topics. You can browse by Dewey Decimal Number (DDC) as well as execute a search or browse subject areas.
• Voice of the Shuttle ~ Focusing on the humanities and social sciences, this database lists a large number of Minority Studies web sites.
• Anthropology SuperSite ~ from Allyn & Bacon
• The Scout Report
• The Best Information on the Net
• Digital Librarian
• Multicultural Resources ~ from Elmhurst College, a comprehensive list of ethnic/cultural Web sites
• Search engines to try:
• www.altavista.com
• www.google.com

Cultural Anthropology

• Abya Yala Net (indigenous people of Mexico, Central and South America) - part of Native Web
• AnthroGlobe
• Center for World Indigenous Studies
• Cultural Anthropology Sites from About.com
• Cultural Survival
• Fourth World Journal
• Kinship and Social Organization: an interactive tutorial
• Library of Congress Country Studies - online version of the book series (use Illinet Online to find the books)
• Researching Anthropology on the Web
• World Bank - information on various regions of the world
• World Factbook (maintained by the CIA)
• World Health Organization
• WWW Virtual Library: Culture
• WWW Virtual Library: Indigenous Studies - developed by the Center for World Indigenous Studies

Culture Shock

• Culture Shock
• Fieldwork: The Anthropologist in the Field: Culture Shock
• Take the Shock Out of Culture Shock

Ethnic Studies

• African and African American collections at UC Berkeley
• Asian DOC Electronic Newsletter
• Asian Studies Network Information Center (ASNIC) - University of Texas
• Handbook of Latin American Studies Online - from the Library of Congress
• Internet Guide for Chinese Studies
• Latin American Network Information Center (LANIC) - University of Texas
• WWW-Virtual Library: Aboriginal Studies

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Folklore

• Folklore
• Odin: History, Culture, Geography, Recreation

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Forensics

• Forensic Anthropology
• Forensic Anthropology at UNC-Wilmington
• Stefan Schmitt's Forensic Anthropology and Human Rights Page

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Linguistics

• Center for Applied Linguistics: Ebonics Information Page
• Endangered Language Groups
• Foundation for Endangered Languages: Links
• Linguistics in SIL (Information on doing research in endangered languages)
• Linguistics Resources
• National Center for English Language Acquisition

Miscellaneous

• Anthropology Resources from Wadsworth
• Anthropology Tutorials
• Ethnobotany
• A Glance at Deforestation
• Phaelos: Links
• Rites of Passage in America
• Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness

Physical Anthropology, Evolution and Primates

• Anthropology in the News
• Center for Evolutionary Psychology - UC Santa Barbara
• Genetic Science Learning Center
• Human Genome Diversity (HGD) Project
• Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man
• Talk.Origins Archive (creation/evolution controversy)
• Yerkes National Primate Research Center

Religion

• Comparative Religion Resources
• Islaam.com
• Jewish Roots of Eastern Christian Mysticism
• Mysticism Resources Page
• Religious Tolerance
• Shamanism
• Taoism Information Page
• Tibetan Book of the Dead
• What is Paganism? (from the Covenant of Unitarian Universalist Pagans, a good overview of paganism)

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Subsistence Patterns

• The !Kung of the Kalahari Desert
• Agricultural Revolution Module
• Hunter Gatherers in Southern Africa
• Settlement and Work in Areas with Nomadic Communities
• What is Sustainable Agriculture?

Citing Information

• College Writing and Citing: Sociology - Web resources selected by EC librarians

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Articles and Databases

• American Immigrant Cultures (R 305.800973 A512i)
• Countries and Their Cultures (R 306.03 C855)
• Culturgrams (R 909.82 C968)
• Encyclopedia of Multiculturalism (R 306.4460973 E56)
• Ethnic Families in America, 4th ed. (R 305.8 E84 1998)
• Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America (R 305.8 G151)
• The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Women's Issues Worldwide (R 305.4203 G816)
• Kiss, Bow, or Shake Hands (R 395.52 M882k)
• Worldmark Encyclopedia of Cultures and Daily Life (R 305.8003 W927)

Check Illinet Online for books on specific groups or on anthropology in general.

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Created 1999 by Elaine Fetyko Page
Last updated 16 September, 2005 by Ayanna Gaines, Assistant Reference Librarian