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Web LinksGeneral links about culture, especially web-ethnographiesAmerican Folklife Center, Library of Congress
http://www.loc.gov/folklife/ndl.html
Collections and Special Presentations Available Online. Includes many fascinating examples from the U.S.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.Eggi's Village: Life Among the Minangkabau of Indonesia
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~psanday/eggi2.html
Peggy Sanday's [famous anthropologist] website about her research, with many photographs. Sanday's focus is on the role of girls and women across the lifespan in different cultures.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.
Virtual Africa: Konaka's website of web ethnography
http://africa.u-shizuoka-ken.ac.jp/e/indexe.html
A multi-media interactive website based on the research of a Japanese ethnographer among the Samburu of East Africa. The site includes music, photos, videos, and text, and is available in Japanese as well as English.
State of the World's Children 2003 (UNICEF)
http://www.unicef.org/sowc03/
Website for UNICEF's annual report on children around the world.
Cultural Anthropology
http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/cultural/
The Minnesota State University at Mankato's emuseum section on cultural anthropology and cultures of the world.
Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Culture Heritage
http://www.folklife.si.edu/
The Smithsonian Institution's website about their Center, which hosts a huge celebration of several different cultures each August on the Mall in Washington, D.C.
University of Michigan Anthropology Museum
http://www.umma.lsa.umich.edu/ethnology/ethnology.html
This website includes the section of the museum devoted to ethnology.
National Museum of the American Indian
http://www.nmai.si.edu/
This is the website of the Smithsonian Institution's brand-new National Museum of the American Indian, located on the Mall in Washington, D.C. The museum itself is scheduled to open in September 2004.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.
Anthropology Fieldwork Gallery from Hunter College
http://maxweber.hunter.cuny.edu/anthro/field.html
A website featuring the research of Hunter College faculty and students, with lots of photographs.
Lee Cronk's website
http://anthro.rutgers.edu/faculty/cronk.shtml
Lee Cronk is one of the major cultural anthropologists who work on the concept of "culture" and what it means, particularly in his 1999 book, That Complex Whole: Culture and the Evolution of Human Behavior. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.Links to more information about Letterboxing and its spin-offsThey Live and Breathe Letterboxing (abstract)
http://www.smithsonianmag.si.edu/smithsonian/issues98/apr98/letterboxing.html
The abstract of the original article from Smithsonian magazine that began the letterboxing/geocaching/bookcrossing/where's george phenomenon in the United States.Letterboxing North America
http://www.letterboxing.org/
The main website for Letterboxing in its North American version. This is the version of this activity that Caroline Kettlewell wrote about.Geocaching
http://www.geocaching.com/
The main website for geocaching, now practiced in over 180 countries around the world. Behold the power of the Internet.Bookcrossing
http://www.bookcrossing.com/
The main website for Bookcrossing, also a worldwide phenomenon. Quote: "What is BookCrossing, you ask? It's a global book club that crosses time and space. It's a reading group that knows no geographical boundaries. Do you like free books? How about free book clubs? Well, the books our members leave in the wild are free... but it's the act of freeing books that points to the heart of BookCrossing. Book trading has never been more exciting, more serendipitous, than with BookCrossing. Our goal, simply, is to make the whole world a library. BookCrossing is a book exchange of infinite proportion, the first and only of its kind."Where's George: The Great American Dollar Bill Locator
http://www.wheresgeorge.com/main.php3
A simpler version of the previous ideas, similar to Flat Stanley in a way. There are also many related websites, some of which are listed here [http://www.wheresgeorge.net/]Flat Stanley Project
http://flatstanley.enoreo.on.ca/index.htm
This is the official website of the Flat Stanley Project, which is a sort of "Letterboxing" in reverse. School children send "Flat Stanley" around the world, learning geography and culture of distant places while they stay in one place. Quote: ""Sometimes simple ideas are the most effective and this project shows how the Internet can bring an offline idea to real life and worldwide attention. As well as helping children gain a global perspective, the project helps develop children's research and communication skills. A real labour of love from one dedicated teacher who has a vision for what the Internet can achieve." Childnet Awards judges, April, 2001." Jeff Brown, the originator of Flat Stanley, died on December 3, 2003.Links to more information about Strassman's work, menstruation/culture, and MaliLife-history theory, fertility and reproductive success in humans
http://www.csun.edu/~dgray/BE528/Strassman2002human%20RS.pdf
A scholarly article by Beverly Strassman about her research in Mali.Your Period, Your Choice?
http://health.discovery.com/convergence/yourperiod/yourperiod.html
A website to accompany a Discovery Health program about menstruation, featuring Beverly Strassman's research in Mali.The end of menstruation
http://www.portlandphoenix.com/archive/features/01/01/19/feat_menstrual.html
An article by Julie Dulude about the cultural meaning and manipulation of menstruation, including a discussion of Beverly Strassman's work among the Dogon.Sacred Sites of the Dogon
http://www.sacredsites.com/africa/dogon.html
The part of Martin Gray's "Sacred Sites" website devoted to the Dogon region of Mali, with a few of Gray's exquisite photographs.Nomads by Choice
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/longterm/nomads/nomad.htm
A three-part article from the Washington Post about nomadic groups in Mali.Photographs from all over the world
http://www.galenfrysinger.com/
This is the website of Galen Frysinger, who has traveled all over the world, and taken wonderful photographs of people and places. He has a big section on Mali, for those who would like to see more images of the landscape and peoples. |
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