Anthropology

Savage Minds describes itself as "a collective web log devoted to both bringing anthropology to a wider audience as well as providing an online forum for discussing the latest developments in the field." The group blog's numerous posts and comments may be browsed by category and month, or searched by keyword. In addition to background information on the blog's current and past authors, all of whom are professors or PhD students of anthropology, the site includes RSS feeds, e-mail updates, and links to other related web logs and resources of interest.

The Anthropology Photographic Archive at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, is a collection of approximately 80,000 original images and fieldwork notebooks of early social anthropology and archaeological research expeditions in New Zealand and the Pacific Islands. The University Library and Department of Anthropology's fully searchable and browseable image database provides conditionally free access online to more than 5000 digitally preserved photographic images and accompanying descriptive records from this unique and valuable archive, dating from the 1950s through to the 1970s.

The Moving Anthropology Student Network (MASN) is an international scholarly network established in 2005 by a group of European students of social/cultural anthropology to promote and facilitate exchange and communication among its members around the world. The MASN web site presents further background information on the network's history, aims, contacts, membership, and international ("moving") conferences.

The web site of the International Visual Sociology Association (IVSA) presents information on the association's purpose, officers, membership, conferences (linked to past presentations online), electronic mailing list, and peer-reviewed journal, Visual Studies. The site also features related announcements; a gallery of images; and links to IVSA member-posted research articles and syllabi, member home pages, and other relevant resources.

VisualAnthropology.net provides details of and links to books, journals, papers, ethnographic films, festivals, conferences, exhibitions, organizations, academic programs/courses, workshops, employment opportunities, and other online resources and services related to visual anthropology. The site also offers a newsletter and a searchable bibliographic database (Library).

The Human Biology Association (HBA) promotes study, training, and discussion about all aspects of human biology, health, and disease - particularly those that stress comparative, developmental, ecological, or evolutionary perspectives. The HBA web site offers information on organizational structure, membership, meetings, and publications. Links are provided to member and student web pages and to related learned societies.

The web site of the Society for Visual Anthropology (SVA), a section of the American Anthropological Association (AAA), includes information on the Society's scope, purpose, membership, board of directors, publications, awards and prizes, Visual Research Conference, juried Film and Video Festival, and other activities at the AAA Annual Meeting (with program details, abstracts, and video clips).

The web site of the Society for Urban, National and Transnational/Global Anthropology (SUNTA, formerly known as the Society for Urban Anthropology), a section of the American Anthropological Association (AAA), provides information on the Society's purpose and focus, officers and bylaws, Committee on Refugees and Immigrants, membership and e-mail discussion list, biannual journal ("City & Society") and other publications, book and student awards, and activities at the AAA annual meeting. SUNTA news and related web links are also included.

The web site of the Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition (SAFN), a section of the American Anthropological Association (AAA), presents information on the organization's background, objectives, officers, committee chairs, awards, and AAA Annual Meeting activities. The site also provides food and nutrition alerts; SAFN columns from the AAA Anthropology News publication; and links to other related news, upcoming meetings, employment and funding opportunities, and graduate programs.

The web site of the Society for the Anthropology of Europe (SAE), a section of the American Anthropological Association, presents information on the Society's background, purpose, officers, membership, journal and other publications, awards (pre-dissertation fellowship, annual student paper competition, and book prize in Europeanist anthropology), and activities at the AAA Annual Meeting.