Web Links

Links about anthropological ethics and methods

American Anthropological Association
http://www.aaanet.org/committees/ethics/ethics.htm
The AAA's website section on ethics, with the AAA's Code of Ethics, and Handbook on Ethics, and links to other associations' codes of ethics.

Software for Anthropological Analysis
http://lrs.ed.uiuc.edu/students/xiaoyu/software.html
A list of links to sites with information about various computer software that can be used to analyze anthropological data. Some of the links no longer work (as of 12/2003) but many of them do.

Fieldwork: The Anthropologist in the Field
http://www.melanesia.org/fieldwork/tamakoshil/
An interactive website created by Laura Tamakoshi, based on her anthropological fieldwork in Papua New Guinea.

The Silicon Valley Cultures Project Website
http://www2.sjsu.edu/depts/anthropology/svcp/
Quote: This project is "is a fifteen year ethnographic study of the cultures living and working in the hi-tech communities of Silicon Valley. Beginning in 1991, Drs. Charles Darrah and J. A. English-Lueck, professors at San Jose State University, California, developed a collaborative research project that is investigating the Silicon Valley culture area. This region is a laboratory for research into high technology communities due to its robust and varied industrial base, the use of information technologies, organizational innovations, and its broad cultural diversity."

The Future of Tropical Rainforest Peoples (APFT Rainforest Project)
http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/Rainforest/
Quote: "APFTis a multi-disciplinary project sponsored by the European Community (DG VIII) which aims to investigate and document the future of the peoples of the rainforest. The major input is from anthropologists. Started in 1995 the project runs for five years, and involves over 30 researchers EU and ACP (senior and trainee) in three principal areas: the Caribbean, central Africa and the southwestern Pacific." This site includes information from a number of ethnographic research projects, including photographs. The Pacific links have the most information.

http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/Rainforest/
Quote: "APFTis a multi-disciplinary project sponsored by the European Community (DG VIII) which aims to investigate and document the future of the peoples of the rainforest. The major input is from anthropologists. Started in 1995 the project runs for five years, and involves over 30 researchers EU and ACP (senior and trainee) in three principal areas: the Caribbean, central Africa and the southwestern Pacific." This site includes information from a number of ethnographic research projects, including photographs.

Los Loros CD-Rom
http://www.ethnoweb.com/loros/index.html
Quote: "The Los Loros ethnoweb, created by Chris Tennant, is a multimedia ethnography of a new Mayan community in the lowland jungle of Guatemala. It is based on two years of fieldwork in the community of Los Loros, and was created with the EthnoWeb authoring tool." This site is interesting not only for its content, about the community and its people, but also for showing the power of the EthnoWeb authoring tool.

Sipapu: The Anasazi Emergence into the Cyber World
http://sipapu.gsu.edu/
A web site useful both for its content, and for its display of the power of the Internet to convey anthropological information.

Ethnographic Methods for the Study of Electronic Communities
http://www.dsv.su.se/jpalme/reports/ethno.html
A website that provides an interesting example of a very recent and widespread phenomenon, the use of ethnographic methods (developed by anthropologists) for use in research about how humans and computers interact. These methods are being used by software engineers and IT specialists to figure out better ways to make computers and humans interact effectively.

Ethicsweb.ca
http://www.ethicsweb.ca/resources/
Applied Ethics Resources on the World Wide Web.

Study Abroad Guide
http://www.studyabroad.com/
A comprehensive website for programs that provide opportunities to study abroad.

Human Relations Area Files
http://www.yale.edu/hraf/userguides.html
The main website for the eHRAF files at Yale University. An electronic guide to ethnographic information about many different cultures.

UNESCO Votes New Intangible Cultural Heritage Convention
http://www.aaanet.org/press/an/0312pa-news.htm
An article from the December 2003 Anthropology News about the meaning and impact of the new UNESCO Convention on Intangible Cultural Heritage.

Links to more information about Mali, Dancing Skeletons, and Kathy Dettwyler

Mali Interactive
http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~anth/arch/mali-interactive/index.html
A website set up in 1997 by the archaeologists Susan and Rod McIntosh, to share information about their research in Mali. Includes lots of information and photographic images of Mali.

Freedom from Hungers, Virtual Tours: Mali
http://www.freefromhunger.org/malwork.html
A website with information about Mali, and the programs sponsored by Freedom from Hunger in Mali. Freedom from Hunger is the organization that funded Kathy Dettwyler's work in Dogo Arrondissement, which was the subject of the selection from Dancing Skeletons included in Reflections on Anthropology.

CARE
http://www.careusa.org/
The main website for CARE, another organization that has used Kathy Dettwyler's collaborative research for its programs in Mali.

Sight Savers: Mali
http://www.sightsavers.org/html/savingsight/mali/default.htm
An organization working to prevent and correct blindness and other vision problems in Mali.

Kathy Dettwyler's Website
http://www.prairienet.org/laleche/dettwyler.html
This website is mostly about her research on breastfeeding and weaning, but it also contains some information about her work in Mali.

Links to more information about Dorothy and David Counts

Dorothy and David Counts ("Too Many Bananas . . . "
http://www.arts.uwaterloo.ca/ANTHRO/rwpark/fac/counts.html
http://www.arts.uwaterloo.ca/ANTHRO/rwpark/wnb/WestNewBritain.html
Two websites with information about Dorothy and David Counts research in West New Britain (Papua New Guinea).

Anthropologists conclude senior RVers happy with their lives
http://www.newrver.com/counts.html
An article about Dorothy and David Counts anthropological research on recreational vehicle owners and their culture in North America (their book on this research is Over the Next Hill: An Ethnography of Rving Seniors in North America).

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