Subject guides: Anthropology: Catalogues, archives & multimedia

Library catalogues and archives

Mura: Online Catalogue of AIATSIS Library
The Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) Audiovisual Archives and Library hold the world's premier collections relating to Australian Indigenous studies. Catalogue includes information gateways to Legislation and other sources relevant to ATSI issues.
The Smithsonian, Department of Anthropology : Archives and Collections
The Smithsonian, Department of Anthropology maintains ethnographic, archaeological and human biological collections numbering over two million items from around the world and employs state-of-the-art collections management and care. Extensive holdings of fieldnotes, manuscripts, photographs, film, videos and sound recordings are housed in the National Anthropological Archives and Human Studies Film Archives. The John Wesley Powell Library of Anthropology includes over 80,000 volumes.
Filmed Interviews with Leading Thinkers
Introducing the life and work of Alan Macfarlane and his collaborators. An archive of recorded interviews with leading Anthropologists and other Social Scientists discussing their life and works.
Created by Alan Macfarlane, Emeritus Professor of Anthropological Science and a Life Fellow of King's College, Cambridge.

Multimedia

SouthEast Asian images & Texts
SouthEast Asian images & Texts brings together, in digital form, two categories of primary and secondary resources: research and teaching materials collected by University of Wisconsin faculty and staff; and unique or valuable items related to these fields held by the University of Wisconsin Libraries. This collection contains digitized images, including photographs and slides, that librarians, scholars, and other subject specialists have deemed important to these fields of study.
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Material copyrights vary by subcollection. Please refer to the respective copyright information listed below for details.

Joel M. Halpern Laotian Slide Collection
All images part of the Joel M. Halpern Laotian Slide Collection are copyright Joel Halpern. For information about using reproductions of images from the Laotian Slide Collection, contact Joel Halpern at jmhalpern@anthro.umass.edu.

E. Murray Bruner Philippine Image Collection
All images part of the E. Murray Bruner Philippine Image Collection are copyright the Bruner family. For information about using reproductions of images from the E. Murray Bruner Philippine Image Collection, contact Dr. Alfred W. McCoy (details listed below).

Wisconsin Philippine Image Collection
The copyright to all images used by the SEAiT project, not specifically noted as the property of other persons or organizations, is held by the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System. For information regarding the duplication of SEAiT materials, or the use of SEAiT materials outside of the stated mission of the project, please contact:
Dr. Alfred W. McCoy
at: 207 Ingraham
1155 Observatory Dr.
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, WI 53706
Phone: (608) 263-1755, Fax: (608) 263-3735
or at awmcoy@facstaff.wisc.edu
The Flight of Ducks
An Australian On-line multmedia documentary by S. Pockley about his father's travels in Central Australia in 1933. F.J.A. Pockley travelled to Central Australia in January 1933 where he undertook a private camel expedition from Hermannsburg Mission to Mount Liebig. He brought back cinefilm, photographs, journals and Aboriginal objects. The collection provides insight into the end of the frontier period when isolated groups of Aborigines where yet to experience non-aboriginal contact.
Experience Rich Anthropology
Site dedicated to "Enhancing the teaching and learning of anthropological concepts by widening student experience using anthropological field materials. Support is provided by a consortium of UK universities led by CSAC (Centre for Social Anthropolgy and Computing, University of Kent at Canterbury)
Kinship and Social Organization : An Interactive Tutorial
Understanding kinship systems can be made easy. This dynamic tutorial is a great resource for both students and researchers. Created by Brian Schwimmer, Department of Anthropology, University of Manitoba. The tutorail includes notes on use and and instructional design.