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- University of Adelaide Visual Anthropology Lybrary Guides - Offers film and photographic catalogs, introductory texts, and web resources in anthropology. Provides resource services, anthropology news, and library tutorials.
- University of Oxford Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology - Offers graduate degree programs in social anthropology, material anthropology and museum ethnography, visual anthropology and medical anthropology. Features seminars and events, student research and department vacancies. Located in Oxford.
- Forensic Anthropology - Provides general information on what forensic anthropology is, and guidelines for planning an education and career in the specialized area of forensic anthropology.
- CASC-Visual Anthropology Online - A resource for information about communicating anthropology to the public, and through science media.
- Anthropology - Subfields include cultural anthropology, physical anthropology, archaeology, and linguistics, with concentrations in biological anthropology and cross-cultural comparison.
- American Association of Anthropological Genetics - Promoting the study of anthropological genetics and cooperation between anthropological geneticists. Features information on workshops, meetings, as well as contact details for officers and publications.
- Society For Medical Anthropology - American Anthropology Association section promoting the anthropological study of health, illness, health care, and related topics.
- Visual Anthropology Resources - Links to web sites of interest to Visual Anthropology.
- Visual Anthropology Review - Official publication of the Society for Visual Anthropology. Includes subscription information and tables of contents from all issues.
- Working Images - Contains abstracts from the conference exploring anthropology, and visual anthropology. Includes introduction, themes, photography, art exhibitions, and ethnographic films.
Wikipedia Articles
- Society for Medical Anthropology - The Organization of Medical Anthropology was formed in 1967 and first met in April 27, 1968, at the 27th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA), during which the Medical Anthropology Newsletter was conceived and first published in October 1968 with 53 subscribers. On November 22, 1968, the Organization held its first medical anthropology workshop at the American Anthropological Association (AAA) Annual Meeting and became the Group for Medical Anthropology (GMA).
- Applied anthropology - Applied anthropology refers to the application of method and theory in anthropology to the analysis and solution of practical problems. Inasmuch as anthropology proper comprises four sub-disciplines -- biological, cultural, linguistic, and archaeological anthropology -- the practical application of any of these sub-disciplines may properly be designated "applied anthropology".
- Anthropology of media - Anthropology of media (also anthropology of mass media, media anthropology) is an area of study within social or cultural anthropology that emphasizes ethnographic studies as a means of understanding producers, audiences, and other cultural and social aspects of mass media.
- Symbolic anthropology - Symbolic anthropology (or more broadly, symbolic and interpretive anthropology) is a diverse set of approaches within cultural anthropology that view culture as a symbolic system that arises primarily from human interpretations of the world. It is often viewed in contrast to more empirically oriented approaches in anthropology such as cultural materialism.
- Theological anthropology - Theological anthropology is the branch of theology which is concerned with the study of humankind, or anthropology, in relation to the divine. In a theological context, it is usually referred to simply as anthropology.