Links to Useful Websites
Anthropology of Organizations and Technology
Community of Anthropologists of Science, Technology and Computing (CASTAC)
http://symptom.mit.edu/castac/
An interest group of the American Anthropological Association.
Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
http://www.cpsr.org/
A group that provides the public and policymakers with realistic assessments of the
power, promise, and problems of information technology. Anthropologists are active in
this association.
Medical Anthropology
Refugee Health – Immigrant Health
http://www3.baylor.edu/~Charles_Kemp/refugees.htm
Issues in refugee health and
resettlement, including infectious diseases, mental health, religious
influences, models for care, and relief agencies
Linguistic Anthropology
News Radio Program: Talkin'
About Talk
http://www.actfl.org/i4a/pages/Index.cfm?pageid=3963
A
series of 52 little essays - conversational in tone, light and anecdotal
in style - that encourage language study... The material was written by
a wide-ranging group of experts, including some of the most well-known
linguists in America.
Ethnologue
http://www.ethnologue.com/web.asp
Summary information for the languages of the world, including their language families, language maps by country, numbers of speakers, and much more.
SIL International
http://www.sil.org/
This group works with language communities worldwide to facilitate language-based
development through research, translation, and literacy.
Yamada Language Center
http://babel.uoregon.edu/
An in-depth site with many links to other sites about languages around the world.
Interesting news items as well.
The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)
http://www2.arts.gla.ac.uk/IPA/fullchart.html
A complete chart of the phonetic symbols used in the most common transcription system.
Language and Culture Symposia
http://www.language-culture.org/colloquia/symposia/
Online papers in linguistic anthropology with comments from discussants.
James Crawford's Language Policy Web Site & Emporium
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/JWCRAWFORD/
Information about bilingual education, the English Only movement, efforts to save
endangered languages, and language rights in the United States.
Language
Policy Research Unit at Arizona State University
http://www.asu.edu/educ/epsl/lpru.htm
LPRU promotes research and policy analysis on the challenges and
opportunities posed by national and global multilingualism.
Anthropology of Education
Council on Anthropology and Education
http://www.aaanet.org/CAE/
National Center for Education Statistics
http://nces.ed.gov/
NCES is the primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data that
are related to education in the United States and other nations.
Education World
http://www.education-world.com/
This site is mostly for educators but it has wonderful articles regarding
the state of education in the United States.
English as 2nd Language
http://esl.about.com/cs/bilingualed/
Bilingual education issues and resources. Great resources in terms of
book recommendations, articles and other site links. Be warned, this site
generates pop-up advertisements.
Critical Pedagogy on the Web
http://mingo.info-science.uiowa.edu/~stevens/critped/page1.htm
Overview of critical pedagogy and resources for further research.
UNESCO-Education
http://portal.unesco.org/education/en/ev.php-URL_ID=48712&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
Reports and information about the state of education around the world.
Innovate
http://www.innovateonline.info/
Journal of online education.
Development Anthropology
The Institute for Development Anthropology
http://www.developmentanthropology.org/
An independent, nonpartisan, non-profit, nongovernmental organization with a mission to
promote environmentally sustainable development through poverty elimination, equitable
economic growth, respect for human rights, gender equity, and cultural pluralism.
Environmental Anthropology
Anthropology and the Environment
http://dizzy.library.arizona.edu/ej/jpe/anthenv/
A section of the American Anthropological Association.
Environmental Anthropology
http://www.sfaa.net/eap/abouteap.html
Part of the website of the Society for Applied Anthropology.
The Environmental Health and Social Policy Center
http://www.policycenter.com/policycenter/
The Policy Center focuses on collaboration in community development and public health promotion, especially in disadvantaged and under-served communities. The founding director, Edward Liebow, has been centrally involved in the development of US Department of Energy policies for protecting tribal rights and resources.
Anthropological Center for Training and Research on Global Environmental Change
http://www.indiana.edu/~act/
A center at Indiana University.
Anthropology Humor
Museum of Weird Consumer Culture
http://www.indiana.edu/~wanthro/museum.htm
Art about consumerism… Hybrids of commodities and handicrafts… Satire, intended or
unintended. The most banal, grotesque, ironic, twisted or perverse creations of the capitalist marketplace. Site by Richard Wilk, an anthropologist at Indiana University.
Globalbabble
http://www.indiana.edu/%7Ewanthro/babble.htm
In this globalized, global age, when everything has globated to the point where it is completely globulous, we obviously need some new vocabulary…
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