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Established in 1879 as the archives of the Bureau of American Ethnology, the National Anthropological Archives (NAA) is now a unit of the Department of Anthropology in the National Museum of Natural History. It preserves papers of anthropologists, records of anthropological organizations (including certain Smithsonian units) and other documents of use to anthropologists. The Archives’ 7000 linear feet of field notes, photographs, correspondence, journals, sound recordings, and works of art are available for use through visits to the reading room and, as possible, through correspondence. Many Native Americans use the collection to study their cultural past.
Highlights include ethnological and linguistic documents concerning North American Indians collected by the Smithsonian Institution since the 1850’s and by federal geological surveys during the 1870’s.
George Gibbs, John Wesley Powell, and Franz Boas are among the very many anthropologists who contributed to the collection. Archaeological documents include materials of Cyrus Thomas’ survey of mounds east of the Rocky Mountains, periodic reports of the Work Projects Administration, and the records of the River Basin Surveys, as well as materials of individual archaeologists and a collection of so-called “grey” literature. There is also a large photograph collection of original glass film negatives and vintage prints, a relatively large collection of American Indian ledger book drawings, and other works of art, as well as a small but important collection of sound recordings, including material collected by John P. Harrington, James Henri Howard, and John Lyle Fischer.

Come to this great web site for complete information on anthropologist Margaret Mead and her centennial. Mead (1901 to 1978) contributed vastly to the field of anthropology. Her 44 books (among them the classic Coming of Age in Somoa) and more than 1 ,000 articles have been translated into virtually all languages. Her data has been carefully catalogued and preserved. She was the first anthropologist to study childrearing practices. Her work on learning theory and “Learning Through Imprinting,” a method by which children learn, is currently being studied further.  One of the founders of the “Culture and Personality School of Anthropology”, she was the first to conduct psychologically-oriented field work. She was instrumental in forging interdisciplinary links between anthropology and other fields. Her writings and lectures covered a vast array of important topics, what she called “Unmapped Councuments try”. She wrote on subjects ranging from mental and spiritual health to ethics and overpopulation. A strong proponent of family, she believed
that “Children are our vehicles for survival-for in them there is hope, and through them what has been, and what will be will not only be perly), petrated, but also united.” In addition to a full biography and bibliography, this site also includes links to online resources relating to Mead’s research, a guide to print and film archives, and more.

This web site hosted by the University of Kent’s Center for Social Anthropology and Computing (CASC) provides an extensive collection of resources and brilliantly crafted research studies. One highlight are the web pages belonging to Stephen Lyon—a Ph.D. student in Anthropology at the University of Kent—was, until September 1999, doing fieldwork in a village in Pakistan. His web pages include an archive of weekly updates and monthly reports about his research and portions of his fieldnotes, together with music and other documents
created by villagers. Other resources include CSAC’s Resources for Anthropologists, CSAC’s Online Reading for Anthropologists, the IEFCE-funded “Experience Rich Anthropology Project,” the RAI Anthropology Today Calendar of Events (updated hi-monthly), and Paul Stirling’s “45 Years in the Turkish Village Archives.” Here you will also find interesting information on other CASC research projects including those that address sustainable semi-arid development, traditions of the Cook Islands, VIMS: The Virtual Institute of Mambila Studies, BLERBS: British Library Ethnographic Research on Bibliographic Services, texts of exploration, TAP: The Text Analysis Project, the Contrade System for exploring territory and identity, culture as distributed cognition, and the 1999 Eclipse Anthropology Project. The webmasters are Michael D. Fischer (an anthropologist who has worked mainly in the Punjab and Swat in Pakistan) and David Zeitlyn (Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, University of Kent).