Anthropology

The World Archaeological Congress (WAC) is a non-governmental, not-for-profit, academically oriented international organization of practicing archaeologists - and the only archaeological organization with elected global representation - seeking to redress global inequities in archaeology, particularly with respect to economically disadvantaged countries, minorities, and peoples.

The US-based Society of Africanist Archaeologists (SAfA) is composed of a worldwide membership of scholars and professionals who are interested or actively involved in the archaeology, paleoanthropology, and/or history of the African continent.

EVIFA, the Virtual Library of Social Anthropology, is a project of the Humboldt University Library, Berlin, in partnership with several other scholarly institutions in Germany, funded by the German Research Foundation. EVIFA provides an Internet gateway to specific online information and resources of quality and relevance to social (and/or cultural) anthropology and folklore studies.

Edited by the husband and wife team of social anthropologists Finn Sivert Nielsen and Kari Helene Partapuoli, AnthroBase offers a growing multilingual collection of anthropological texts online and "a free publishing opportunity for 'the interesting text that never was published'." Most texts on AnthroBase - varying in length from short essays to full-scale monographs - are in English, with several in Danish and Norwegian as well as a smattering of other European languages, and are all presented in HTML.

The Material World blog - provided by an international team of academic editors from University College London, New York University, and elsewhere - describes itself as "an interactive, online hub for contemporary debates, discussion, thinking and research centred on material and visual culture." The site posts relevant announcements and listings, including for conferences and events, calls for papers, and employment opportunities; reviews of books and exhibitions; short articles, notes, commentary, and analyses; and links to related news items and web sites of interest.

The Media Anthropology Network is the official European Association of Social Anthropologists' network of scholars dedicated to the anthropology of media. In addition to organizational background, aims, contact, and mailing list information, the network's web site provides related news and event details; a collection of bibliographies; and a series of full-text working papers, with respective comments and e-seminars, all downloadable in PDF. Documents of discussions by mailing list participants are also provided in PDF.

The Museum Anthropology blog serves as an online supplement to the journal Museum Anthropology, which focuses on research in material culture and museum studies, published by the Council for Museum Anthropology (a section of the American Anthropological Association). The blog presents timely postings of relevant news, announcements, event details, exhibition and book reviews, job listings, and other related information and links, browseable by "label" (subject, resource, or regional category), as well as by monthly archive (since July 2006). A keyword search is also provided.

The International Association for Southeast European Anthropology (InASEA) - founded in 2000 as the successor to the Association for Balkan Anthropology - describes itself as "an interdisciplinary organization of scholars studying present and past social and cultural processes manifest in the practices and beliefs of the people of south-eastern Europe" (which here includes the modern countries of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Hungary, Kosovo, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, and Turkey).

Membership in the international, multidisciplinary Paleopathology Association is open to anyone interested in the study of ancient health and disease. The association's web site provides further background on the organization, including its bylaws, executive committee, meetings, awards, and quarterly newsletter. It also offers a "Queries from the Field" section and a sizeable collection of related web links.

The web site of the British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology (BABAO) presents information on the association's purpose, ethics and standards, committee members (including their respective research interests and publications), membership, awards, and annual conference (with details of past conferences available to BABAO members only). In addition, the site provides some BABAO communications and links to other related documents and articles on the issue of the repatriation and reburial of human remains.