Cultural Anthropology

Aesthetic Realism, founded by Eli Siegel, is a scientific and ethical method for understanding individuals and society--and having good will for both.

resources for the anthropological study of food, eating habits, nutrition and culture

Circumpolar Ethnographic Field School 2005

Society of Ethnobiology

An extensive hypertext tutorial covering kinship basics for introductory anthropology students and undergraduate majors. Basic topics covered include: descent, marriage, kin terms, and residence. Employs numerous color diagrams, animations and case study illustrations.

The Fall 2002 index for Dr. Balfour's LBAR 181-200 subsection at Texas A&M University.

Slovenian ethnology and cultural anthropology on the Net

This project collects observations made by travellers about the way people behave in other countries or cultures. The observations database will be freely accessible for exploring the ways in which behaviour varies in different cultures.

This is a journal of my Watson Fellowship year, June 29, 2003 - sometime after August, 2004. My project compares the sounds of living places in the Cook Islands, Fiji, New Zealand, Australia, Malaysia, Singapore, and Canada. I'll be wandering, listening, talking, and hoping to get a sense of how different people in different places relate to the sounds they live with.

Yutaka Yamada (Anthropology Ph.D.) explored life history narratives in which dreamsand healing experiences are episodic symbols. A narrative is a symbol, a medium which conveys a certain meaning and has its own symbolic structure. Leaders or members of religious groups narrate religious experiences such as possession, trance, visions, dreams, healings, conversion and various shamanic experiences....

Proverbs in the Asafo flags of Ghana. From Smithsonian Magazine, Vol 32 number 5.