Anthropology

A searchable database that facilitates the discovery of newly published materials to anthropologists and students of anthropology, while helping them to evaluate the relevance of specific titles to their own interests

An open-access website providing full-text copies of selected books from such sources as American Libraries, Canadian Libraries, Project Gutenberg and Children's Library

University of Alabama's website allows you to read about several of the major theories guiding anthropological research.

An extensive list of key anthropological websites suggested by the American Anthropological Association.

An A-Z list of definitions in the social sciences. Created by Dr. Frank W. Elwell of Rogers State University.

A searchable A-Z list of definitions in the social sciences.

An international digital repository for the digital records of archaeological investigations

Provides descriptions, maps and related resources for all the languages spoken in different countries.

An A-Z list of the world's languages leading students to online dictionaries and free translation sites

Historical and contemporary anthropological materials that document the world's cultures and the history of anthropology.

A comprehensive database of over 136,000 abstracts of literature related to the preservation and conservation of material cultural heritage.

"... a platform for ethnographers and those using elements of ethnographic practice to take part in conversations between academic and applied ethnography in the private and public sector."

Group blog devoted to ‘doing anthropology in public’ — providing well-written relevant discussion of sociocultural anthropology that everyone will find accessible.

An online glossary of terms used in biological anthropology.

The Bartleby.com edition of Gray’s Anatomy of the Human Body features 1,247 vibrant engravings—many in color—from the classic 1918 publication, as well as a subject index with 13,000 entries ranging from the Antrum of Highmore to the Zonule of Zinn.

A database creation project, still currently in development, which will focus on the research related to remains with Native American derivative

The PrimateLit database provides bibliographic access to the scientific literature on nonhuman primates for the research and educational communities. Coverage of the database spans 1940 to present and includes all publication categories (articles, books, abstracts, technical reports, dissertations, book chapters, etc.) and many subject areas (behavior, colony management, ecology, reproduction, field studies, disease models, veterinary science, psychology, physiology, pharmacology, evolution, tax

Provides free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience.

Four bilingual digital libraries from the Library of Congress related to the United States' historical and cultural relations with France, the Netherlands, Siberia, and Brazil. These collections contain manuscripts, photographs, images, maps, and other primary source materials.

CWIS ”has in its files and electronic archives the largest collection of tribal and tribally related documents anywhere.” Registered students and donors can receive access to the George Manuel Library archives. CWIS also supports the Indigenous node of the World Wide Web Virtual Library.

Some items may be subject to Copyright.

Created and maintained by Tufts University, the Perseus Digital Library includes an Art & Archaeology Artifact Browser and an extensive Greek and Roman Materials Collection.

Databases, and additional online resources, of the Smithsonian Institute's National Museum of Natural History include the John Wesley Powell Anthropology Library, SIRIS (Smithsonian Archives, Manuscripts, and Photographic Collections), and the Collections Search Center.

Unedited ethnographic video recordings.

Access over a million images covering architecture, painting, photography, sculpture, decorative arts and design, as well as archeological and anthropological objects.

Over 240,000 images of artifacts from the American Museum of Natural History's collections are accessible in this searchable database.

The California Academy of Science provides an online searchable database accessing nearly 16,000 objects and over 12,000 images.

A collection of archaeological images for use in teaching, studying and research.

Provides an osteology database allowing users to examine and compare the bones of human and non-human primates.

From the Archaeological Institute of America's journal Archaeology comes a website that walks students through a variety of treasure digging adventures. Day by day accounts of the archaeological digs, plus pictures of each trip's findings can be found at this site.

View Merle Greene Robertson's archive of Maya imagery.