Pacific Websites


ANTHROPOLOGY & ARCHAEOLOGY

Academic Info: Anthropology  http://www.academicinfo.net/anth.html

Aid Workers Network  http://www.aidworkers.net

Anthropology Links  http://www.aaanet.org/resinet.htm

Anthro-Net Pacific Anthropology and Archaeology links http://home1.gte.net/ericjw1/pacific.html

Anthropology Resources (anthropology-related news, books and web resources) http://n-e-x-u-s.com/anthropology/

Anthropology Review Database http://wings.buffalo.edu/ARD/geninfo.shtml

Anthropology/Archaeology Virtual Library  http://vlib.anthrotech.com/

Anthrosource (AAA infor source) http://www.anthrosource.net/

Archaeology Channel http://www.archaeologychannel.org/

Archaeology On The Net http://www.serve.com/archaeology/pacific.html

Archaeology Of Oceania http://archaeology.about.com/science/archaeology/library/atlas/bloceania.htm

Auckland University Library (copious Pacific Anthropology weblinks and short bibliogrraphes) http://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/subjects/anthro/nzppacific.htm

Ausanthrop [Australian anthropology site, particularly Aboriginal] http://www.ausanthrop.net/

[search engine of websites] http://www.ausanthrop.net/resources/links/index.php

Australian Dictionary of Biography http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/adbonline.htm

Austronesian On-line http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~marck/anhmpg.htm

Bibliography of Oceanic Art, Ethnography and Anthropology (ANU Centre for Cross-Cultural Research)  http://www.anu.edu.au/culture/biblio/

Biographical Directory of Anglican Clergy  (1,500+ Anglican clergy who served in New Zealand, Polynesia and Melanesia pre-1926) http://www.kinderlibrary.ac.nz/information-sources/anglican-clergy-intro.asp

Cannibalism discussion http://www.pacific-credo.net/cannibalism/

Captain Cook Society http://www.captaincooksociety.com/

Center for Pacific Islands Studies, UHM http://www.hawaii.edu/cpis/

Challenge of the wind (Polynesian voyaging simulation online) http://www2.bishopmuseum.org/anthro/voyage/index.htm

China's growing influence in the SW Pacific (US Congressional Research Service Report) http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/RL34086.pdf

CREDO: Centre de Recherche et de Documentation sur l'Océanie Home Page (in French) http://www.ehess.fr/centres/credo/CREDO.html  Discussion page (in English) http://www.pacific-credo.net/

Ethnologies Compares Online journal, free access  http://alor.univ-montp3.fr/cerce/revue.htm

Ethnologue (online Languages database) http://www.ethnologue.com/

Gender Relations Centre (ANU) http://rspas.anu.edu.au/grc

Human Development Report 2004 (with links to earlier reports)  http://hdr.undp.org/reports/global/2004/

Island Studies (research material which supports the study of islands) http://www.islandstudies.ca/

Island Vulnerability (publications on islands and isolated geographies, island risk, vulnerability, and disasters, and links to websites related to island development) http://www.islandvulnerability.org/resources.html

Last-First Network: Tools for Change ("over 11,000 resources on every aspect of community renewal, social change" etc. Includes South Pacific section) http://www.lastfirst.net/index.php

Melanesia Interest Group http://www.melanesia.org/

Melanesia Today (1927) (A Study Circle Book: A.I. Hopkins, compiler) http://anglicanhistory.org/oceania/hopkins_today1927/

Museum Anthropology Review (open-access peer-reviewed journal of museum & material culture studies) http://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/mar/index

Museum Ethnographers Group* (MEG) http://www.museumethnographersgroup.org.uk/

Östereichisch-Südpazifische Gesellschaft (German language site)  http://www.univie.ac.at/ospg/index.html

Pacific Islanders' Cultural Association http://www.pica-org.org/websurf/websurf.html

Pacific Navigation http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~feegi/index.html

Pacific Prehistory http://archaeology.org/9811/abstracts/pacific.html

Pacific Research Online (database of Pacific research expertise mainly based within New Zealand universities) http://www.pacificresearchonline.com/

Pacific Resources for Education and Learning (PREL) http://www.prel.org/

Pacific Studies Initiative (UHM Online Educational resources. **Excellent site**) http://www.hawaii.edu/cpis/psi/

Pacific Studies WWW Virtual Library (Australian National University) http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVL-PacificStudies.html

Project Canterbury (digitizing Anglican History in the Pacific): http://anglicanhistory.org/oceania/

Religion in the Pacific (NZ National Library Directory) http://webdirectory.natlib.govt.nz/dir/en/pacific/religion/

Rivers, WHR: Essays on the Depopulation of Melanesia (1922)(a collective web log on anthropology) http://anglicanhistory.org/oceania/depopulation1922/

Savage Minds (collective anthropology web log and online discussion forum) http://savageminds.org/about-savage-minds/

Semiotic Review of Books http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/epc/srb/index.html

UNDP (United Nations Development Project) http://www.sdnp.undp.org/

WEDA (Worldwide Email Directory of Anthropologists) (University of Buffalo site) http://anthropology.buffalo.edu/WEDA/

WHO site on human rights and health of indigenous populations http://www.who.int/hhr/activities/indigenous/en/

ASSOCIATIONS & SOCIETIES

American Anthropological Association  http://www.aaanet.org/

Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and Commonwealth http://www.theasa.org/

Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania (ASAO) http://www.soc.hawaii.edu/asao/pacific/hawaiki.html

Australian Anthropological Society http://www.aas.asn.au/

Australian Association for the Advancement of Pacific Studies http://oceanicencounters.anu.edu.au/aaaps/

European Society of Oceanists http://www.joensuu.fi/esfo/

New Zealand Association of Social Anthropologists  http://www.massey.ac.nz/~nzsrda//nzssorgs/nzasa/nzasa.htm

Pacific History Association  http://www.pacifichistoryassociation.com/

Small Islands Cultural Research Initiative (SICRI) http://www.sicri.org

Société des Océanistes (France, website in French, society based in Musée de l'Homme) http://www.oceanistes.org

Society for Applied Anthropology http://www.sfaa.net/

TEACHING & PERSONAL SITES

Anthropology of Religion (Doug Padgett) http://www.indiana.edu/%7Ewanthro/religion.htm#what

Applied Anthropology (Ann Reed) http://www.indiana.edu/%7Ewanthro/applied.htm

Canoes: Fijian Voyaging Canoes (nice personal site by Wayne Sanday. Be warned: slow-loading animation on home-page) http://www.angelfire.com/ma3/axiom/

Caste System and the Stages of Life in Hinduism (Kelley Ross) http://www.friesian.com/caste.htm

Envisioning the Pacific Islands: Indigenous, Colonial and Contemporary Arts (Margaret Jolly) http://www.hawaii.edu/cpis/psi/art/Envisioning%20pacific%20islands.htm

Explorations in Social Inequality (Michael Kearl) http://www.trinity.edu/%7Emkearl/strat.html

Fieldwork: The Anthropologist in the Field (Laura Zimmer-Tamakoshi) http://www.melanesia.org/fieldwork/tamakoshil/

Fijian Art articles (Rod Ewins) http://www.justpacific.com/fiji/fijianart/

For students: http://www.as.ua.edu/ant/Faculty/murphy/anthros.htm      http://www.indiana.edu/~wanthro/theory.htm      http://www.savageminds.org

History of the Cherokee (Ken Martin) http://cherokeehistory.com/index.html

Kinship http://www.as.ua.edu/ant/Faculty/murphy/436/kinship.htm

Kinship and Social Organization (Brian Schwimmer- Interactive site + tutorials) http://www.umanitoba.ca/faculties/arts/anthropology/tutor/

Melanesian Interest Group [blog of the American Anthropological Association] http://mignet.blogspot.com/

Peoples of the World http://www.ucc.uconn.edu/~epsadm03/overview.html

Quiz http://www.uwgb.edu/galta/a100/quiz/quizfram.htm

Serious Games http://www.theorycards.org.uk

SHIMA: The International Journal of Research into Island Cultures (Online journal) http://www.shimajournal.org/

Society for the Anthropology of Work (Joshua Wells) http://www.indiana.edu/%7Ewanthro/joshua1.htm

Theory in Anthropology (Richard Wilks) http://www.indiana.edu/%7Ewanthro/theory.htm#sub

Virtual Archaeologist: Like-A-Fishhook Village and Fort Berthold project (includes interactive 3D simulations of earthlodges) http://fishhook.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu

Wallace's (Alfred Russel) "Malay Archipelago" www.papuaweb.org/dlib/bk/wallace/archipelago.html

What is Anthropology? http://www.aaanet.org/anthbroc.htm

What is Culture? http://www.wsu.edu:8001/vcwsu/commons/topics/culture/culture-index.html


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