Anthropology Department

Anthropology as a Field

Check out these links for more information about the field of anthropology. Anthropology has seen great changes since its emergence in the 19th century. There are now practitioners all over the world, and the field addresses the entire range of human experiences and practices. 

For more varied and specific links to anthropology research see the Library Research Guide for Anthropology.

• American Anthropological Association
  Home page of the American Anthropological Association. Find out what's happening in American anthropology. Brief history of the field, Section news, updates on policy debates, great links for anthropology resources on-line.

• Careers in Anthropology
  Info and careers resources provided by the American Anthropological Association on the wide variety of careers anthropologists pursue. From academic to business, to government, and non-profit and community organizations.
  
  

• GradSchools.com Directory of Graduate Programs in Anthropology
  Searchable by state, country.

• Society for Applied Anthropology
  Links to graduate programs nationally, job opportunities, on-line publications and more.

   

• Association of Indigenous Anthropologists
  American anthropology was largely founded upon the study of American Indians, both present and past, and until the last few decades there were few professional anthropologists able to claim tribal enrollment. Although the number today remains miniscule, the AIA does exist to provide support, encouragement, and mentoring for Natives interested in anthropology.
• Oxford Bibliographies: Anthropology
  Excellent resource for starting any research you are conducting in anthro. Provides annotated bibliographies curated by well-known anthropologists of influential works in a variety of topics and debates. Access this through Reed's library.

• Anthropology of this Century
  A major open access anthropology journal that publishes longer book reviews and a small number of research articles.

• Cultural Anthropology
  The website of the Society for Cultural Anthropology. In addition to providing information about the open access journal Cultural Anthropology, the website has short essays, podcasts, ethnographic films and other items about contemporary issues in anthropology and the world.

• Transforming Anthropology
  Journal of the Association of Black Anthropologists. Transforming Anthropology interrogates the contemporary and historical construction of social inequities based on race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, nationality and other invidious distinctions.
  
  
• World Anthropology Network Journal (Red de Anthropologias del Mundo)
  Journal of RAM-WAN, a contemporary collective of international anthropologists who recognize Anglo-Saxon (and to a similar if lesser extent continental French) anthropological theory, thought and practice as stifling and silencing other ways of knowing, doing and living anthropology. The task of this project since the mid-1990s has been to lay out foundational arguments for pluralizing and diversifying what ‘we’ understand to be disciplinary knowledge. The Network as it has expressed itself thus far has consolidated three main approaches: 1) to examine how knowledge – by which it is meant a changing set of Western principles and practices – is transmitted and received around the world; 2) to highlight, recognize and historicize the plurality of anthropologies which operate in distinction from the dominant mode of, so called, ‘metropolitan hegemonies’; and 3) to initiate new dialogues, conversations and activities between anthropologists across inter/national, regional and disciplinary boundaries in order to unravel and disempower the dominance of Western anthropological discourse (Ribeiro 2006).

• Anthropology News
  Anthropology News (AN) is the American Anthropological Association's news source. The American Anthropological Association is the world's largest association for professional anthropologists, with more than 10,000 members. Based in Washington, DC, the Association was founded in 1902, and covers all four main fields of anthropology.
  
  
• Sapiens Magazine
  SAPIENS is an online magazine dedicated to exploring the human experience through the lens of anthropology. It seeks to make anthropology accessible and engaging to a broad audience by publishing stories that delve into the complexities of human culture, biology, history, and language. The magazine features contributions from a diverse group of anthropologists, journalists, and researchers who provide insightful analyses and compelling narratives. SAPIENS aims to foster a deeper understanding of humanity and to illuminate the relevance of anthropological perspectives in contemporary issues.
  
  
• The Geek Anthropologist
  An anthropological approach to all things geek. A community blog where geek culture and its areas of interest are analysed through the perspective of sociocultural anthropology.
  
  
• Anthro{dendum} (Formerly Savage Minds)
  Anthro{dendum} is a group blog devoted to ‘doing anthropology in public’ — providing well-written relevant discussion of sociocultural anthropology that everyone will find accessible. Our authors range from graduate students to tenured professors to anthropologists working outside the academy.
  
  
• Engagement
  Engagement is the official blog of the Anthropology and Environment Society (AES), a section of the American Anthropological Association (AAA). It features first-hand accounts by anthropologists and other social scientists who bring an anthropological approach to understanding the pressing environmental issues of our time.
  
  
• Foodanthropology
  Wisdom from the Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition.