There are many different folk tales in the world, but many tales are variations on a limited number of themes. The classification system originally designed by Aarne, and later revised first by Thompson and later by Uther, is intended to bring out the similarities between tales by grouping variants of the same tale under the same ATU category. like hraf
A blog devoted to both bringing anthropology to a wider audience as well as providing an online forum for discussing the latest developments in the field
An extensive and fully searchable database of reviews of anthropological books, films & videos, audio recordings, software & multimedia, and on-line resources
Links to general internet sources, directories, scholarly programs, societies and organizations, archival collections, grants, journals, and other resources for research in anthropology, ethnomusicology, and folklore.
Compiled by Kevin E. Smith it gives hyptertext links to over 150 bibliographies over a vast range of anthropological topics and includes a link to the British and Irish Archaeological Bibliography (A.D. 1695-1991)
AnthroBase is a multilingual, searchable database of articles, theses, essays, reports, conference papers, field-notes etc., written by anthropologists and others
This course presents a theoretical analysis of religion as a cultural phenomenon. It explores the functional relationships between religion, culture, society, and the individual.
Die Südosteuropäische Geschichte und Anthropologie an der Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz ist die einzige wissenschaftliche Institution in Österreich, die sich in Forschung und Lehre auf Geschichte und Anthropologie Südosteuropas konzentriert.
Dunbar is an anthropologist at the University College of London, who wrote a paper on Co-Evolution Of Neocortex Size, Group Size And Language In Humans
The Science and Civilisation in China series is the work of Joseph Needham and an international team of collaborators, and is published by Cambridge University Press in seven volumes.
The official journal of World Association of Cultural Psychiatry (yet another organization that should be disabused of hiring web designers that do UI with Flash)
On this day in 1959, Anthropologist Mary Leakey discovered fossils of the Paranthropus boisei, which was falsely called the 'Nutcracker Man' for many years.