Anthropology: Other Web Resources

Founded in 1902, the American Anthropological Association (AAA) is the world's largest organization of individuals interested in anthropology.

The permanent research collection of the Department of Anthropology at the California Academy of Sciences comprises approximately 17,000 objects, most of which are ethnographic. The Department actively collects material of the indigenous cultures of western North America (exclusive of Mexico) and of the Pacific Rim, including all Pacific islands and East Asia. Current strengths of the collection are holdings from the U.S. Southwest and the Pacific Islands, and basketry from California.

The National Archeological Database, Reports module, is an expanded bibliographic inventory of over 350,000 reports on archeological investigation and planning, mostly of limited circulation. Citations only.

The Cultural Portal of the Aegean Archipelago is a product of collaboration between FHW and the Ministry of the Aegean. The objective of the project is the development of a website providing cultural and historical information of high quality in order to demonstrate and promote the unique historical and cultural characteristics of the Aegean, as well as the integration of the various websites that are related to the Aegean into a thematic cultural atlas on the Internet.

The Encyclopaedia of the Hellenic World (EHW) is an original electronic project aiming at collecting, recording, documenting, presenting and promoting the historical data that testify to the presence of Hellenic culture throughout time and space. EHW includes entries that concern geographical-cultural areas lying beyond the borders of the Hellenic nation-state.

A database of ethnographic resources of all types in the US and around the world. Provides annotated entries for identifying archives, museums, and libraries; directories and web resources; grant giving organizations; higher education programs; public sector organizations; publishers and dealers of books and recordings; research groups; and societies

Online collections from one of the oldest archaeological and ethnographic museums in the world.

The UMMA Digital Image Database contains over 29,000 images from more than 60 years of archaeological and ethnographic work conducted throughout the United States, Latin America, Asia, Europe, Africa and the Middle East.

Digitized objects and photos from NMAI accompanied by descriptive information.

Gateway to US Census Bureau data including demographics, housing, industry, and employment.

Social science research into Americans’ political knowledge, discourse, media use and opinions about candidates and issues.

Poll data on American attitudes towards social issues, politics, and the economy.

Conducts basic scientific research on the structure and development of American society with a data-collection program designed to both monitor societal change within the United States and to compare the United States to other nations.

Database including 500,000 data files of research in the social sciences. Coverage includes social population, economics, education, health, social and political behavior, crime, aging, and substance abuse.

Empirical social science research including public opinion polling, demographic research, and media content analysis in America and the world.

An online database of public opinion polls containing the full text of 600,000+ questions and responses, from 18,000+ surveys and 1,700+ polling organizations, conducted from 1986 through the present in the United States and more than 100 other countries around the world.

International statistics with some data back to 1960. Includes more than 900 development indicators for over 200 countries covering economic policy and debt, education, environment, financial sector, health, infrastructure, labor and social protection, poverty, private sector and trade, and public sector.

The World Values Survey is administered to nationally representative samples covering values and perceptions of life, the environment, work, family, politics and society, religion and morale, and national identity, as well as demographic characteristics.

CESSDA was established in 1976 as an informal umbrella organisation for the European national data archives.
Collectively the constituent CESSDA member organizations serve some 30,000+ social science and humanities researchers and students within the European Research Area each year, providing access to 25,000 data collections, delivering over 70,000 data collections per annum and acquiring a further 1,000 data collections each year.

Social science data focusing on religion in America.

Data on the arts and cultural policy in the United States.