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- Silicon Valley Cultures Project - The Silicon Valley Cultures Project is a ten year anthropological study of the identities and cultures of the people living and working in the Silicon Valley region.
- Anthropology - Subfields include cultural anthropology, physical anthropology, archaeology, and linguistics, with concentrations in biological anthropology and cross-cultural comparison.
- What is Culture? - A tutorial on the nature of culture and the history of the culture concept.
- Critical Theory and Cultural Studies - "Cultural studies draws from the fields of anthropology, sociology, gender studies, feminism, literary criticism, history and psychoanalysis in order to discuss contemporary texts and cultural practices."
- Cultural Anthropology - Journal of the Society for Cultural Anthropology. Features volume listings, submission guidelines, and subscription information.
- Society for the Anthropology of Europe - A section of the American Anthropological Association dedicated to furthering the anthropological study of European societies and cultures.
- Cross-cultural Psychology - A subfield of psychological anthropology concerned with observing human behavior in contrasting cultures.
- Anthropology Resource Base - Resources for indigenous cultures around the world provided by NativeWeb.
- Field Methods - Journal focusing on the methodology of field work in anthropology and related sciences. Formerly known as Cultural Anthropology Methods.
- Media Anthropology Network - Contains information about the network and mailing list, a working papers series, and an annotated bibliography.
Wikipedia Articles
- Cultural anthropology - Cultural anthropology is one of four fields of anthropology (the holistic study of humanity) as it developed in the United States. It is the branch of anthropology that has developed and promoted "culture" as a meaningful scientific concept, studied cultural variation among humans, and examined the impact of global ...
- Cognitive anthropology - Cognitive Anthropology is an approach within social or cultural anthropology in which scholars seek to explain patterns of cultural innovation and transmission over time and space using the methods and theories of the behavioural sciences (especially experimental psychology and evolutionary biology) often through close collaboration with historians, ethnographers, archaeologists, linguists, musicologists and other specialists engaged in ...
- 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.
- 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".