Sam Francis Fitness

Archive for December, 2009

The literature on cultural anthropology is large, diffuse, confusing, and hard to get a handle on. This page is designed as a remedy to the situation. As a primary goal, it seeks to enhance and simplify the library research projects of anthropology students by suggesting a search strategy for locating materials relevant to cultural anthropology, and by listing a wide variety of anthropological reference materials. The page also introduces users to anthropological resources on the Internet by providing a jump station to Web sites that are particularly useful for anthropologists. The jump station is designed with the novice in mind and is divided up into sections on Internet Basics, Internet Directories, Interesting Anthropology Sites, Regional Studies, and Maps. The jump station identifies and summarizes dozens of the most useful and in-depth anthropological Web resources available anywhere. Supplementing this, the detailed bibliographies provide complete information on Classic Introductory Texts, General Guides to Research in Cultural Anthropology, Handbooks and Manuals, Atlases, Biographical Sources, Guides to Anthropological Serials, Book Reviews in Anthropology, Anthropological Catalogs, Histories of Anthropology, Anthropological Directories, Guides to the Funding of Anthropological Research, Guides to Anthropological Ethics, and more. All this comes to us courtesy of webmaster Michael Dean Murphy, a professor of Anthropology at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa.