Unofficial Subject Guide to Cyborg Anthropology

(Being) Prepared by Rafael C. Alvarado, Director of Academic Technology

Resources at Dickinson

People

• For subject assistance on the topic of anthropology in general, please contact Theresa Arndt, Associate Director for Research & Instruction and library liaison to the Anthropology Department. Her number is 245-1750.
• Check out the Anthropology Department Webpage for a list of faculty and current activities.

Reference Works

Encyclopedia of cultural anthropology / edited by David Levinson and Melvin Ember. New York : Henry Holt and Co., 1996. (4 vols.) Reference GN307 .E52 1996.

Encyclopedia of social and cultural anthropology / edited by Alan Barnard and Jonathan Spencer. London ; New York : Routledge, 1996. Reference GN307 .E648 1996.

Companion encyclopedia of anthropology / edited by Tim Ingold. London ; New York : Routledge, 1994. GN25 .C65 1994.

Handbook of psychological anthropology / edited by Philip K. Bock. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1994. Reference GN502 .H363 1994.

History of physical anthropology / edited by Frank Spencer. New York : Garland Pub., 1997. (2 vols.) Reference GN50.3 .H57 1997.

Fieldwork in the library : a guide to research in anthropology and related area studies / R.C. Westerman. Chicago : American Library Association, 1994. Reference GN42 .W47 1994.

Encyclopedia of social theory / editor George Ritzer. Thousand Oaks, CA : Sage Publications, c2005. (2 vols.) Reference HM425 .E47 2004.

Dictionary of the social sciences / edited by Craig Calhoun. New York : Oxford University Press, 2002. Reference H41_.D53.

International encyclopedia of the social sciences. David L. Sills, editor Sills, David L. [New York] Macmillan [1968]. (17 vols.) Reference H40 .A2 I5.

Library Catalog Info

Dickinson uses the Library of Congress Classification System to organize library resources. It divides Anthropology into these areas:

GN         = Anthropology.
GN49—298   = Physical anthropology. Somatology.
GN301—673  = Ethnology. Social and cultural anthropology.
GN700—890  = Prehistoric archaeology.
GN803—890  = By region or country.
D—F        = Descriptions of individual ethnic groups.

General Online Resources

Databases

• AnthroBase. A multilingual database of articles, theses, essays, reports, conference papers, field-notes etc., written by anthropologists and others with an interest in social and cultural diversity.
• AnthroSource. An online resource serving the research, teaching, and professional needs of anthropologists. Developed by the American Anthropological Association (AAA), AnthroSource brings 100 years of anthropological material online to scholars and the public.
• Human Relations Area Files (HRAF). Founded in 1949 at Yale University, HRAF contains two major collection —the HRAF Collection of Ethnography and the HRAF Collection of Archaeology)—as well as encyclopedias, and other resources for teaching and research. The distinctive feature of this resource is a vast hypertext collection of ethnographic monographs, with each paragraph of text tagged by a classification system known as a the Outline of World Cultures. For an interesting take on this resource, see Tobin, 1990, "The HRAF as Radical Text?".

Blogs

• :: antropologi.info ::
• Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology (A Group Blog)
• Anthropology.net
• Open Access Anthropology
• Culture Matters
• Digital Ethnography
• Boas Blog
• Synthesis of Thought. Devoted to "Design Anthropology." Lots of links to professional societies associated with the field.
• Xirdalium. From the author: "A blog in the strict sense of the term accompanying the cyberanthropological research-project."
• A blog about Time, Space and Cyborg Anthropology. Devoted to small quips.

Professional Societies

• American Anthropological Association (AAA)
• Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA)
• National Association for the Practice of Anthropology (NAPA)
• National Association of Student Anthropologists (NASA)
• Consortium of Practicing & Applied Anthropology Programs (COPAA)

Online Resources

• MIT's Convergence Culture Consortium
• A thesis on Cell Phones and Cyborg Anthropology