Anthropology

The largest professional association for anthropologists in the United States. Contains information about careers and research in anthropology, and lots of resources for students and professionals.

Sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution, this resource features a select list of Web sites, each with a brief annotation, sharing a sample of what the Internet holds for teachers and students interested in the field of anthropology.

Becoming Human brings together interactive multimedia, research and scholarship to promote greater understanding of the course of human evolution. Sponsored by the Institute of Human Origins at Arizona State University.

The Division of Anthropology at the American Museum of Natural History in New York is concerned with all aspects of human behavior, past, present, and with an eye to the future. Their work is biological, socio-cultural, archeological and linguistic. As one of the oldest departments of anthropology in the United States, their collections and archives are important resources for the history and continuing work of anthropology.

The research conducted by the Department of Anthropology at the Smithsonian covers a wide range of topics and areas of the world. Some of the research topics include human-environmental interactions, population migration, origins of domestication, linguistics, and forensic anthropology.

A quick reference for users interested in gender statistics. The book presents sex-disaggregated data for more than 200 economies in an easy country-by-country reference on demography, education, health, labor force, political participation and the Millennium Development Goals. The book’s summary pages cover regional and income group aggregates.