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Welcome to the Anthropology page

Anthropology. I began studying anthropology in 1971, and I've been in love with it ever since. The field has changed in many ways since my undergraduate days, even if I haven't. Here are a list of some of my favorite anthropology sites. These can be used for many different courses besides anthropology. Check out a few and see how you can use them in your teaching.

I have two eBooks for sale. My most recent book is for teachers wanting to move into teaching positions overseas. The second book is for expats who want to move to Bali. Below you will find brief descriptions of both books. Follow the links for more information on each book.

Sale, Sale, Sale for June, July and August

Summer Sale for my two eBooks. Get 40% off on each book if you purchase them during these three months. Just click on the links below to find out more about these two books.

The International Teacher: A Guide to Teaching Overseas

My new eBook on teaching overseas is now available for purchase. Please click on the link to learn more about this book if you are an international teacher looking for a new position, or if you are new to the profession and want to sample the lifestyle of the international teacher. For free sample chapters, click here and here.

$10.00 $6.00

The Practicalities of Moving to Bali: A Primer for Life in the Tropics

My eBook on expat life in Bali is now available for purchase. Please click on the link to learn more about this book that you'll want to read if you plan on moving to Bali. Here's what a reader has said about this book:

"Bruce Pohlman's e-book has already been a godsend to my wife Elsha and me. He writes in an inviting and colorful way. He covers the GENERAL: culture shock, the wonders and risks of living overseas, to the SPECIFIC - costs of living, housing, medical issues, visas, employment. He even includes much PERSONAL info: what expats are like, why he left a job in San Francisco and ended up in Bali, personal and family relationships. And much more; anything you might want to know is in his e-book, with links to helpful websites throughout. We've used it to guide us countless times; it's like having a trusted uncle who's an expert. This book should become a classic about Bali."

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$15.00 $9.00

Africa

African National Congress. Check out the ANC home page. Includes links to sites relevant to South Africa.

Asia

Eggi's Village: Life Among the Minangkabau of Indonesia is a virtual exhibition of photos by Peggy Reeves Sanday, an anthropologist who has spent a significant amount of time in the area.

Welcome to SunSite Thailand, comes to us from the Information Management Division of Assumption University. It has IT information, but also includes a variety of other socio-cultural information about Thailand. Slow-loading but worthwhile.

Thailand - A Country Study, comes to us from the United States Library of Congress. This is an online version of the area handbook produced for the United States government. Lots of information, but no photos.

Madura, Island of Charm, is a small, but tastefully done site, with basic information about Madurese culture. The island of Madura lies off the coast of East Java and is relatively close to the island of Bali.

blue ball Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog , is a blog about archaelology in Southeast Asia written by a Singaporean writer-journalist-archaelogy student. Interesting for those studying this area. I'll keep track of this site.

Bali Online, is a tourist-oriented page describing the culture and geography of one of the world's favorite vacation spots. This site now has information in German, Chinese, Korean, and Japanese. Why isn't my house listed?

Australia and the Pacific

Background Notes: Western Samoa 6/96, is a document from the United States Department of State with basic information about Western Samoa. Useful in providing a beginning for research on the area.

Vaturanga Home Page, is another one of those eclectic sites from the denizens over at Geocities. This site has been developed by a Ph.D. student over at U.B.C. It covers the Vaturanga people from the Solomon Islands. Much of the information here is based on the author's fieldwork. Read an ethnography of the Vaturanga, view some photos, try out some of the excellent links to other sites about the Solomons, the Pacific area, and anthropology. I thoroughly enjoyed my visit.

Europe

Introduction to the Sami The Sami are an indigenous people living in Scandinavia. This page describes their culture. Cool. This is what the internet is all about - giving you access to information that will expand your knowledge of the world. Of course, I like looking at baseball scores, too.

North America

holder Center for the Study of the First Americans , is a site where you can learn about where the first Americans came from. It is the cyberhome of the Center for the Study of the First Americans which is a research institute located on the campus of the University of Texas A&M. This is a site useful to university and high school students.

Native Americans, has an enormous amount of links about Native Americans. This is a great resource for both students and teachers.

Native American Indian History, Art and Culture, is brought to you by LostWorlds.org. Lost Worlds is an online interactive museum that tells about the Mound Builders of the American Southeast and Midwest. This is a very cool site about the Native American tribes that built the pyramids in North America.

holder Native American Language Net , is a site about promoting and perserving Native American Languages. If you work in this area and are concerned about the Native American languages, you should check this site out.

Russell Means Home Page, is a site dedicated to Russell Means, the American Indian activist. Includes writings, philosophy, lectures, etc. Also has links to other American Indian pages.

Monumental American Indian Architecture, is devoted to the American Indians of the Lower Mississippi Valley and the earthworks they created. Has some links to some very cool sites on ancient earthworks in the U.S. Some very interesting stuff on American Indians, architecture, history, etc. I love this place - quite possibly related to my early interest in the mound builders of the midwest. Check it out. Makes me think of Dr. Hall who I taught for at Illinois years ago and loved to throw chalk at sleeping students during his archaeology lectures. I've been tempted...

South America

Cultures of the Andes, is a page with music, poetry, the Quechua language and pictures. Very cool if you're looking for something direct and easy to access on the Andes region. Great photos and lots of them. Includes links to other Andes oriented web sites.

Departments of Anthropology

University of California, Berkeley is my old department. Berkeley has a great history in the field of anthropology - most of my professors have retired now. Check out News and Resources. There are better web sites for other departments in terms of resources.

University of California, Santa Cruz is one of the departments in the UC system.

blue ball University of Chicago is one of the classic departments in the United States.

image holder University of Illinois, Chicago is the department where I received my BA and MA in anthropology. I have fond memories of the old department.

Other Anthropological Sites

American Anthropological Association, This is the home of the major anthropological association in the United States. It includes information about the AAA as well as links to anthropology resources on the internet.

AnthroBase.com is a searchable database of anthropological texts. I don't know much about this site right now (24/7/04), but it looks like it has possibilities, and I will be checking on it more in the near future.

Anthropoetics: The Journal of Generative Anthropology, generative anthropology (GA) attempts to understand cultural phenomena in the simplest terms possible: all things human are traced back to their source in the hypothetical scene of origin in which human beings as sign-using creatures first emerged.
The originary hypothesis of GA is that human language begins as an aborted gesture of appropriation representing--and thereby renouncing as sacred--an object of potential mimetic rivalry. The strength of our mimetic intelligence makes us the only creatures for whom intraspecific violence is a greater threat to survival than the external forces of nature. Human language defers potential conflict by permitting each to possess the sign of the unpossessable object of desire--the deferral of violence through representation.

GA seeks to transcend the impasse between the humanities, imprisoned in the "always already" of our cultural systems, and the empirical social sciences, which cannot model the paradoxical generativity of these systems. The originary hypothesis provides the basis for rethinking every aspect of the human, from language to art, from religion to political organization.

Anthropoetics is dedicated to this rethinking both for its intrinsic importance and as a framework for literary and cultural analysis. The editors of Anthropoetics hope to stimulate the continuing interest in GA and to encourage productive dialogue between the humanities and the human sciences.

holder Anthropology.net, says this about their website:

Anthropology.net’s mission is to create a cohesive online community of individuals interested in anthropology. This website intends to promote and facilitate discussion, review research, extend stewardship of resources, and disseminate knowledge. To serve the public interest, we seek the widest possible engagement with all segments of society, including professionals, students, and anyone who is interested in advancing knowledge and enhancing awareness of anthropology.

holder Chapati Mystery, has this to say about itself:

CM started out wondering what T. E. Lawrence and Bhagat Singh would talk about, over dinner. And it kinda went downhill from there. Over the last three years, you would have read examples of ‘Cool History’ from South Asia [’cool’ being a subjective term, here], wrong analysis of US domestic politics [I thought Kerry would win], many, many rants against journalists and historians who write about Islam, Middle East or South Asia, some sober assessments on Pakistan’s political and religious scene, a few ruminations about public intellectuals and digital history and finally enough snark to overcome a room full of Wicker Park hipsters. Do be aware that CM’s only qualified expertise is in medieval and modern South Asian history. You should take our guided tour.

Now, I'm just getting to examine this blog, but it's about Pakistan which I love, and Wicker Park is mentioned in the quote above which tells me that this fellow is in Chicago which I also love - what could be better?

holder Cultural Analysis , is an interdisciplinary forum on folklore and popular culture : it is an " interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to investigating expressive and everyday culture. The journal features analytical research articles, but also includes notes, reviews, and responses." I found a few interesting articles the first time I found the site the other day. Give it a try.

holder Culture Matters, is an anthropology blog coming out of the Department of Anthropology at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. They write about "the emergent trends in anthropology. In particular we are interested in discussing the ways in which the methods and insights of anthropology are being 'applied' in various settings, both within and beyond the academy."

First-Nations.com, contains information and links on indigenous people from the United States to Africa.

Folklore and Mythology Electronic Texts, is a very basic site in terms of design with a great deal of information about folklore around the world. If folklore is your interest, this site is a valuable resource.

holder Glossarist, is a site that contains links to nine anthropology glossaries. You can also use this site to find glossaries for other subjects as well.

holder Genetics and Human Migration Patterns, is a site about just what the title says. Interesting stuff here for the student of genetics and human migration.

Jon Frum Home Page, tells you about cargo cults and the well-known Jon Frum (well-known if you've taken some intro anthro courses that discuss cargo cults). This is an interestingly designed sight and is worth a look.

Native Web Home Page, is a "cyber-place for Earth's Indigenous peoples." This site provides a variety of links relating to indigenous people.

holder Open Access Anthropology , is a blog that examines the state of open access resources in and around anthropology. For those of us who are far from libraries and not attached to a university or research institute, open access materials are heaven sent. I keep an eye on this just to see what is available.

holder Savage Minds , is a blog that covers all sorts of cool anthropology stuff.

Social Science Information Gateway: Ethnographic Studies of Peoples and Communities, has a very large list of cool anthropological sites. This is a must visit site.

The Archaeology Channel is the Archaeological Legacy Institute (ALI), an independent, nonprofit, tax-exempt (501[c][3]), research and education corporation registered in Oregon in 1999. Recognizing that the archaeological record is the legacy of all human beings and dedicated to bringing the benefits of archaeology to a wider constituency, ALI was founded to address a number of critical issues now facing archaeology and its potential beneficiaries. Interesting. Check it out.