LibGuides: Anthropology: Additional Websites and Resources

Selected Anthropology Websites

Anthropology Collection Database (California Academy of Sciences)
National Anthropological Archives and Human Studies Film Archives
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology
The Peabody's Online Database offers access to over 300,000 records for which there are images. The site offers users the opportunity to browse preselected groups of commonly requested objects, a simple search function, and an advanced search function. Additional options for researchers are available on request.
Penn Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology Image Collection
Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland (RAI) Digital Archives
Committee minutes and other documents of the RAI, along with other manuscript material, photos, and maps, ca. nineteenth century to the present.
Spurlock Museum Collections Database

Archaeological Institute of America
ArchNet
ArchNet is an international community for architects, planners, urban designers, landscape architects, conservationists, and scholars. ArchNet focuses on Muslim cultures and civilizations.
Ethnographiques.org
Website in French
Ethnologue: Languages of the World
Gallica: Presse et revues
The Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology
Formerly the Cambridge Encyclopedia of Anthropology, this free online encyclopedia offers researchers peer-reviewed encyclopedia entries written by experts in their fields.
Society for Applied Anthropology

Finding Video- Alexander Street

Alexander Street is a database company that offers a wide selection of videos, from documentaries to films of everyday life. Here you will find recommended Alexander Street databases along with links to a guide on using Alexander Street.

Alexander Street Press
This online collection includes primary resources, including video, audio, and other multimedia.

Selected Alexander Street databases.

Link to Full List of Databases from Alexander Street

Anthropology Online
Anthropology Online brings together written ethnographies, field notes, seminal texts, memoirs, and contemporary studies covering human behavior. It is an essential resource for study in the areas of politics, economics, history, psychology, environmental studies, religion, area studies, linguistics, and geography.
Border and Migration Studies Online
This collection of text, images, and videos explores and provides historical background on more than thirty key worldwide border areas, including: U.S. and Mexico; the European Union; Afghanistan; Israel; Turkey; The Congo; Argentina; China; Thailand; and others.
Ethnographic Sound Archives
Ethnographic Sound Archives Online brings together over 2,000 hours of previously unpublished historic field recordings from around the world, alongside their supporting field notes and ethnographers’ metadata, opening new paths for the study of music in its cultural context.
Ethnographic Video Online, Royal Anthropological Institute Teaching Edition
Ethnographic Video Online, Royal Anthropological Institute Teaching Edition is a curriculum-aligned collection of videos and segments curated to support the teaching of introductory anthropology courses. Each video and segment within this collection are accompanied by a teaching guide providing background information, lesson plans, and class room exercises and activities. There are a variety of themes that are discussed including family and kinship, gender roles, cultural identity, belief systems and other topics centered around diversity, change, and culture.