Oceanic anthropology: a list of useful sites / compiled by Susanne Kühling

*Internet-sites*

*Professional Organisations*

*Association for Social Anthropology in **Oceania* (ASAO)

http://www.soc.hawaii.edu/asao/pacific/hawaiki.html

This is a gateway site to ASAO and provides instructions to how to join an email discussion list that will give you access to a community of scholars and allow you to sense of the current debates and discussions.

*European Society for Oceanists* (EsFO): http://cc.joensuu.fi/esfo/

Another gateway site to a community of scholars working in Oceania, with instructions for joining their mailing list and various links

*Melanesia Interest Group* (MEG)

http://www.melanesia.org/

This is a site for an interest group within the American Anthropological Association (http://www.aaanet.org/) that focuses on Melanesia.

*Museum Ethnographers Group* (MEG). http://www.museumethnographersgroup.org.uk/

*Pacific Arts Association* (PAA): http://www.pacificarts.org/

Website for association of scholars dealing with arts in the Pacific. This site provides links to conferences, and other Pacific oriented material.

General:

American Anthropological Association, “What is Anthropology?”:

http://www.aaanet.org/anthbroc.htm

Richard Wilk’s, Indiana University, *Theory in Anthropology*:

http://www.indiana.edu/%7Ewanthro/theory.htm#sub

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*general overviews* of anthropological ideas written by students for students: http://www.as.ua.edu/ant/Faculty/murphy/anthros.htm, http://www.indiana.edu/~wanthro/theory.htm <http://www.indiana.edu/%7Ewanthro/theory.htm>

http://www.savageminds.org <http://www.savageminds.org/>

*for some fun*: http://www.theorycards.org.uk <http://www.theorycards.org.uk/>

A *quiz* for another introductory paper:

http://www.uwgb.edu/galta/a100/quiz/quizfram.htm

Washington State University, *Learning Modules: “What is Culture*?”:

http://www.wsu.edu:8001/vcwsu/commons/topics/culture/culture-index.html

The Society for *Applied Anthropology* Homepage: http://www.sfaa.net/

Ann M. Reed, “*Applied Anthropology*”:

http://www.indiana.edu/%7Ewanthro/applied.htm

Center for *International Earth Science* Information Network,

“Indigenous Agricultural and Environmental Knowledge Systems”:

http://www.ciesin.org/TG/AG/iksys.html

Center for *World Indigenous Studies* Homepage: http://www.cwis.org/

*Cultural Survival* Homepage. http://www.cs.org/

Society for the *Anthropology of Religion*, American Anthropological

Association: Anthropology of Religion Links and Lists:

http://www.uwgb.edu/sar/links.htm

Doug Padgett, “*Anthropology of Religion*:

http://www.indiana.edu/%7Ewanthro/religion.htm#what

*kinship*: http://www.as.ua.edu/ant/Faculty/murphy/436/kinship.htm

Brian Schwimmer, “*Kinship and Social Organization*” [Interactive site +

tutorials]: http://www.umanitoba.ca/faculties/arts/anthropology/tutor/

*United Nations*, Food and Agriculture Organization: Images and links to

sources of information:

http://www.fao.org/english/newsroom/photofile/index.html

UN *Sustainable Development* Home Page: http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/

*Human Organization* (Journal of the Society for Applied Anthropology:

Contents and abstracts): http://www.sfaa.net/ho/

Human Relations Area Files, “*Understanding Ethnography*”:

http://www.yale.edu/hraf/workbook.htm#2

Laura Zimmer-Tamakoshi, *Fieldwork*: The Anthropologist in the Field:

http://www.melanesia.org/fieldwork/tamakoshil/ [a marvellous site]

Joshua Wells, “Society for the *Anthropology of Work*”:

http://www.indiana.edu/%7Ewanthro/joshua1.htm

Kelley L. Ross, “The Caste System and the Stages of Life in *Hinduism*”:

http://www.friesian.com/caste.htm

Ken Martin, History of the *Cherokee*:

http://cherokeehistory.com/index.html

Michael Kearl, “Explorations In *Social Inequality*”:

http://www.trinity.edu/%7Emkearl/strat.html

*Peoples of the World*: http://www.ucc.uconn.edu/~epsadm03/overview.html

<http://www.ucc.uconn.edu/%7Eepsadm03/overview.html>

UNDP, “*Gender in Development*”:

http://www.sdnp.undp.org/poverty/links/Gender_in_Development/

UNDP, *Poverty Homepage*: http://sdnhq.undp.org/poverty/links/

The *Digital Archive Network* for Anthropology and World Heritage, or

DANA-WH: http://dana-wh.net (DANA-WH is a National Science Digital

Libraries collection (NSDL; http://nsdl.org), On-A-Slant Project:

http://onaslant.ndsu.edu/

The *Virtual Archaeologist*, Like-A-Fishhook Village and Fort Berthold

project, includes interactive 3D simulations of earthlodges:

http://fishhook.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu <http://fishhook.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu/>

Biological Anthropology.

http://testserv.archaeology.ndsu.nodak.edu/~deichele/vrml.htm

<http://testserv.archaeology.ndsu.nodak.edu/%7Edeichele/vrml.htm>.

*MUSEUMS/INSTITUTIONS/LIBRARIES/ARCHIVES*

Australian National University libraries: http://anulib.anu.edu.au/lib_home.html

Alele, Museum of Marshall Islands http://www.alele.org/Alele/default.html

Art Gallery of New South Wales: http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au

The Baltimore Museum of Art: www.artbma.org <http://www.artbma.org>

The Berndt Museum, University of Western Australia:http://www.berndt.uwa.edu.au <http://www.berndt.uwa.edu.au>

Centre for Cross— Cultural Research (ANU) http://online.anu.edu.au/culture

Fiji Museum:http://www.fijimuseum.org.fj/

Macleay Museum (Sydney University) http://www.usyd.edu.au/su/macleay/

Metropolitan Museum of Art: http://www.metmuseum.org

Museum der Kulturen, Basel, Switzerland http://www.webmuseen.de

Musée d'Etnographie, Neuchâtel, Switzerland http://www.men.ch

Musée de la civilisation, Québec: http://www.oceanie.org/

Australian National Library Online Exhibitions: http://www.nla.gov.au/exhibitions/online.html

Peabody Essex Museum (Salem): http://www.pem.org

Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford: http://www.prm.ox.ac.uk;

in addition:

— collection database at: http://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/databases/

— notes for visiting researchers: http://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/researchnotes.html

— Forster Collection: http://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/forster

St. Louis Art Museum: http://www.slam.org

University Museum, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale: http://www.museum.siu.edu/

Tjibaou Cultural Centre (New Calendonia): http://www.adck.nc

*PHOTOGRAPHIC/PICTORIAL RESOURCES*

National Library of Australia: http://www.nla.gov.au/catalogue/pictures/

Australian Pictorial Archive: http://www.pictureaustralia.org/

Database on Pacific films and videos: http://www.hawaii.edu/oceanic/film/

British Pathe Film Archive: http://www.britishpathe.com/index.cfm

http://www.pictureaustralia.org

http://www.viscult.net <http://www.viscult.net/>: Viscult 2005 Visual Culture Festival of anthro - ethnogr. films

*OCEANIA***

Many *links*: http://www.justpacific.com/pacific/websites.html (Roderick Evans, Tasmania), Centre of Pacific and Asian Studies, NL: http://www.ru.nl/cps/

*Australia*:

http://www.aboriginalart.com.au/, http://www.dreamtime.net.au, http://www.yothuyindi.com, http://www.atsic.gov.au, http://www.aboriginalaustralia.com, http://www.ourmessage.org, http://www.pictureaustralia.org/, http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/orgs/car, http://www.antar.org.au, Australian Cultural Network: http://www.acn.net.au

DesART: http://www.desart.com.au/, *Didgeridoo*: http://www.ididj.com.au/, http://www.didgeridoo.com.au

*Melanesia**:*

*Papua New Guinea***

PNG artefacts: http://www.art-pacific.com/artifacts/nuguinea/tocnugui.htm

PNG photos: http://www.newguineaart.com/otherpages/highlands.html

http://www.newguineaart.com/otherpages/highlands2.html

http://www.newguineaart.com/otherpages/sepik.html

The Art of Kula: http://www.netspeed.com.au/cr/theartofkula/default.htm

West New Britain, PNG: http://arts.uwaterloo.ca/ANTHRO/WNB/WestNewBritain.html

_http://xoomer.virgilio.it/ajablonk/baruya.html _ MauriceGodelier's

early research among the Baruya and the films which resulted: /To Find

the Baruya Story/ and /Her Name Came on Arrows./__

*Solomon Islands***

Solomon Islands canoe rebuilding project:http://www.vaka.org/artcraft.html

*West Papua***

Definitive site for materials on West Papua: http://www.papuaweb.org/

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*Micronesia*:

Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands (Micronesia): http://libweb.hawaii.edu/digicoll/ttp/ttpi.html

The Micronesian Seminar: http://www.micsem.org/photos.htm

News: http://www.mymicronesia.com/

*Marshall Islands***

http://GoZips.uakron.edu/~dhuskin/ <http://GoZips.uakron.edu/%7Edhuskin/> (Photos from Marshall Islands, Pacific Satellite photos, PNG maps, and more by David Huskin’s Photo Collection), www.yokwe.com <http://www.yokwe.com/> (web site for the Marshallese community in the US. It also has links to all kinds of news events in the Marshalls, and to Marshallese government documents, consultants reports)

*Tobi** **Island*: http://cas.gmu.edu/~tobi/ <http://cas.gmu.edu/%7Etobi/>

*Yap**: *http://www.fm/yap.htm

*Polynesia**:*

*General*

Online exhibition on Cook and Omai http://www.nla.gov.au/exhibitions/omai/

Online exhibition on the Rex Nan Kivell collection: http://www.nla.gov.au/exhibitions/nk/

Polynesian Tattoo bibliography http://www.hawaii.gov/hidocs/tattooing.html

*Pacific Navigation*: http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~feegi/index.html <http://www.ruf.rice.edu/%7Efeegi/index.html>,

http://www.teara.govt.nz/NewZealanders/MaoriNewZealanders/CanoeNavigation/2/ENZ-Resources/Standard/2/en, Polynesian Voyaging Society: http://www.pvs-hawaii.com/navigation/hawaiiancompass.htm

*Aotearoa (**New Zealand*)

Te Puia (Maori Cultural site)http://www.nzmaori.co.nz/

Maori: http://www.maori.culture.co.nz

Ta Moko (Maori tattoo site) http://www.tamoko.org.nz/

*Cook Islands*: http://kiaorana.com

Rod Ewins’ historical photos from *Fiji*: http://www.justpacific.com/fiji/fijiphotos/

*Rotuma*: http://www.hawaii.edu/oceanic/rotuma/os/hanua.html

*Hawai’i***

The Annexation Of Hawai’i: A Collection Of Documents: http://libweb.hawaii.edu/digicoll/annexation/annexation.html

Hawaiian Language Newspapers: http://libweb.hawaii.edu/digicoll/newspapers.htm

*Hawai’i** War Records Depository*: http://libweb.hawaii.edu/digicoll/hwrd/HWRD_html/HWRD_welcome.htm

Hawai’i War Records Depository (HWRD) was created in 1943 to document the impact of the war upon Hawai’i and its populace. Includes approximately 1,325 photographs.

Petroglyphs: http://www.kapaams.k12.hi.us/netshare/cmorris/assignmthawaiianart.htm

Hawaiian Bark Cloth http://www.kupuna.com/kapa.htm

*Marquesas Islands*

http://www.marquises.pf , http://www.mare.de/mare/schatztruhe/index.php (German language site on tatoo, information derived from Karl von den Steinen in 1896)

*Rapa Nui (Easter Island)*

Easter Island Statue Project, The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA: http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/ioa/eisp

Henry P. Edmunds and William A. Bryan photographs: http://libweb.hawaii.edu/digicoll/rapanui/index.html

Rapa Nui:http://www.netaxs.com/~trance/rapanui.html <http://www.netaxs.com/%7Etrance/rapanui.html>

Petroglyphs: http://www.geocities.com/petroglifos_rapanui/index.htm text in Spanish, nice illustrations from 6 sites

*Tonga: *www.planet-tonga.com/ <http://www.planet-tonga.com/>

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*Art of the **Pacific** **Islands**: *

http://www.infography.com/content/823060123167.html

Art History of Oceania: http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHamericasoceania.html#oceania

(remarkable resource maintained by Dr Chris Witcombe, with links on art histories world- wide, including Oceania)

ArTok: Pacific Arts Online: http://www.abc.net.au/arts/artok/default.htm

L'Océanie: Peuples des eaux, gens des îles. http://www.oceanie.org/accueil.html (French language site, nice visuals especially in Ancêtres section, but very slow- loading)

International String Figure Association: http://www.isfa.org/isfa.htm

Galerie Meyer (Anthony JP Meyer): http://www.galerie-meyer-oceanic-art.com <http://www.galerie-meyer-oceanic-art.com/>

Pacific Age Art:http://www.pacificart.co.nz

Holger Braun Fine Asian & Tribal: http://www.holgerbraun.com/

Hurst Gallery http://www.hurstgallery.com/

Alex Philips - Oceanic Art: http://alexphilips.cjb.net

Crispin Howarth: http://users.bigpond.net.au/tribalmelbourne/

Alcheringa Gallery: http://www.alcheringa-gallery.com/

De Rienzi engravings of Polynesia: http://www.mapsouthpacific.com/engravings/index.html

http://www.art-pacific.com/index.htm

Maori art: http://www.artmaori.com, http://www.humboldt.edu/~rwj1/mauri.html <http://www.humboldt.edu/%7Erwj1/mauri.html>,

http://www.maori.org.nz/Maori-links/arts.htm

Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Arts Board of the Australia Council: http://www.ozco.gov.au