Internet sites for Anthropology

The internet sites listed here may be of interest to Anthropology students and staff.

Anthropology sites
Japan sites
Tips on evaluating the Internet
Gateways
Organisations and associations
Catalogues of other libraries
Search engines

Anthropology sites

Anthropological Index of the Royal Anthropological Institute the Index is based on the journal holdings of the Library of the department of Ethnography of the British museum (museum of mankind). Search by keyword, author or journal
Anthropology resources a comprehensive list of internet resources providing many links to international anthropological sites, associations
Anthropology resources - American Anthropological Association slection of resources including ethnography and applied anthropology
CSAC's Ethnographics gallery produced by the Centre for Social Anthropology at the University of Kent, provides links to a range of resources and information, as well as reviews, papers
Education index provides liks to a range of resources arranged by subject, including a comprehensive list of anthropology resources. Select 'Subject' option and choose anthropology
Folklife Sourcebook offers a selection of ethnographic resources in anthropology from the USA and around the world

Japan sites

Japan Focus provides free access to articles and essays on various aspects of Japanese politics, society and culture
Japan Foundation
Japanese Society of Cultural Anthropology
Stanford University guide to Japan information sources provides links and information on many key areas of japanese life and culture, e.g. education, politcs, law, history
Web Japan a good resource for high quality statistical data on many diverse japanese issues.

Tips on evaluating the Internet

There is a huge amount of information available on the Internet, from academic research to misinformation and trivia. If you do decide to use internet sites for your research, be selective and critical. You need to evaluate internet sources just as you would printed sources. Look at the Library guides Evaluating Web sources and Citing information sources and plagiarism for tips on how to select, evaluate and cite web sites.

Internet tutorials also offer practical guidance and tips on searching and evaluating the Internet effectively :

Internet Detective - practical advice on evaluating the quality of websites
TONIC - the online netskills interactive course
Virtual Training Suite - various subject based tutorials.

Gateways

A good way of finding good quality resources on the Web is to use subject gateways. These are sites where internet resources are collected, described and (sometimes) evaluated for a particular subject area:

Pinakes this site links to all the key subject gateways, which provide good qualtiy internet sites for all subject areas
BUBL gateway to information on most subject areas.

Organisations and associations

Catalogues of other libraries

Find out what else has been published in your subject area:

Bodleian Library access to the University of Oxford's online catalogue
British Library access to the online catalogue of the British Library
HERO includes access to the Library catalogues of other Higher Education Institutions - choose University & Colleges and Resources and then OPACs in Britain.

Search engines

Search engines will search the entire Internet for your topic but they do not evaluate any sites:

Google
Yahoo