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Archive in Visual Anthropology
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WAVA is an archive resource for people interested in the anthropology
of visual communication. It features out-of-print and unpublished
materials useful for teaching and research. WAVA was created and
is maintained by the faculty and graduate students in the graduate
program in the anthropology of visual communication at Temple University,
Philadelphia, PA USA |
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A December 2008 list from Online Universities.com. |
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List from the Academic Blog Portal wiki. |
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Site at the University of Chicago put together by George Stocking
and others. has HA archives with full text articles by Stocking
and others on aspects of the history of the discipline. |
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Books and other materials in libraries worldwide. Click on the
ILL button at the top of WorldCat's search page to order these materials. |
Primary Sources: Maps |
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Utrecht University database of over 20,000 digital maps. Searchable
by country, type of map. (Caution: site no longer updated.) |
| Library
of Congress map collections |
Great collection of maps, organized under various categories,
including "cultural landscapes," military battles, age
of exploration and more. |
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Excellent digital collection of historical and contemporay maps
at the University of Texas. Links to other sites' maps. |
| Mapping History |
Developed cooperatively between the University of Oregon Department
of History, UO New Media Center and Department of Geography InfoGraphics
Lab. All of the atlas resources contained in this site are original
materials produced for this project. |
| David Rumsey Map Collection |
Digital collection of over 20,000 historic maps, mostly of North and South Amercia in the 18th and 19th centuries. |
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Collection of 77 maps from the age of exploration illustrating
the development of the North American continent. |
Primary Sources: Collections |
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Digitized Collections and Exhibits at Duke University Library |
The Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library at
Duke University preserves historical documentation and promotes
its use. There are digitized archives on a variety of topics related
to the history of the U.S., including advertising, the civil war,
African-American women and more. |
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of Congress' American Memory Collection. |
Excellent digital collections related to the history and culture
of the U.S. |
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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs |
Online searchable catalogue of historical images available for
online viewing. |
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Picture Australia Image Database |
Search for people, places and events in the collections of libraries,
museums, galleries, archives, universities and other cultural agencies,
in Australia and abroad. |
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Smithsonian Museum Home Page |
Clearinghouse for many national museums, many with online archives
and images. |
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Smithsonian National Anthropology Archives |
The National Anthropological Archives collects and preserves historical
and contemporary anthropological materials that document the world's
cultures and the history of the discipline. |
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Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian |
Online exhibits |
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This site provides access to collection data housed in the Department
of Anthropology, California Academy of Sciences. Current strengths
of the collection are general holdings from the U.S. Southwest and
the Pacific Islands, and basketry from California. Earlier years
of collecting have yielded both ethnographic and archaeological
materials from East Africa, the Middle East, Europe, and Central
and South America. |
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The Forster Collection at the Pitt Rivers Museum at the University
of Oxford is one of the world's great collections of eighteenth-century
Pacific art and material culture. |
Primary Sources: Databases/Indexes |
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Very conveniant meta-site with links to a variety of digital image
collections. Capacity to search directly from this site. |
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Portal to international digital collections. |
| Digital Collections and Content |
Web directory of over 300 digitization projects harvested from libraries, museums, and archives. |
| CONTENTdm Collection of Collections |
Digital collections, including both images and text, from libraries, archives, and museums using CONTENTdm software. |
| Luna Commons |
Digital image collections, mostly from museums and libraries at academic institutions, using Luna Insight image software. |
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Paul Halsall at Fordham University's Internet History Sourcebooks
are collections of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts
presented cleanly (without advertising or excessive layout) for
educational use. 1000's of links, full text articles and literature
from particular time periods, links multimedia collections. |
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Freely available Internet service which aims to provide a trusted
source of selected, high quality Internet information for students,
academics, researchers and practitioners in the social sciences,
business and law. Part of the UK Resource Discovery Network. |
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Web Resources for Visual Anthropology |
Ur-List at University of Southern California. (No longer updated.) |
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Anthro-Globe Bibliographies |
This collection of specialist online bibliographies is compiled
and updated by Editors of the AnthroGlobe electronic journal (ISSN
1481-3440). Grouped by area and topic. Includes links to other bibliography
sites as well. |
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Award-winning site hosted by School of Journalism and Communications
at the University of Minnesota. Offers links to a wide variety of
primary and secondary sources related to the history of media. |
Image Collection Sources |
| Anthropology Images |
List of web-accessible image collections compiled by Joanna Burgess, Reed's Digital Assets Librarian |