CULTURAL STUDIES SITESVOICE OF THE SHUTTLE Web Page for Humanities Research.
A great starting point to survey what the internet may offer. This vast site is maintained by Alan Lui.
This Site is maintained by the Centre for Social Anthropology and Computing at the University of Kent at Canterbury. It includes online exhibits and the Anthropological Index Online.
This Site is maintained by James Cullen contains anthropology related news, new book information and a collection of web resources organized by category.
NATIVE AMERICAN SITES Native American, Anthropology, Sociology sites and more.
T he Social Science Information Gateway (SOSIG) is a freely available Internet service which aims to provide a trusted source of selected, high quality Internet information for students, academics, researchers and practitioners in the social sciences, business and law. This link will take you to the Anthropology and Ethnography portal.
Check out their list of Oral History Sites, get updates from the field, and Connect with their members
This site contains the Indigenous Peoples Literature site, the Action Center for Indian issues and a complete listing of Federally Recognized Tribes and location in United States and Alaska as well as Nonfederal and State Recognized Tribes, Bands, Clans and Groups
The Center for World Indigenous Studies (CWIS) is an independent, non-profit [U.S. 501(c)(3)] research and education organization dedicated to wider understanding and appreciation of the ideas and knowledge of indigenous peoples and the social, economic and political realities of indigenous nations. The Center fosters better understanding between peoples through the publication and distribution of literature written and voiced by leading contributors from Fourth World Nations. An important goal of CWIS is to establish cooperation between nations and to democratize international relations between nations and between nations and states.
The Asiatica Association is a non-profit, non-governmental, cultural association, which has been established to promote and diffuse the study of the Asian cultures. It is open to all bona fide scholars whose interest is the knowledge of Asian countries and the encounter between Asian values, Human Rights values, and Western values.
This gateway site is part of clnet (chicano/a and latino/a network out of the University of California). It offers links to disscussion lists, e magazines, reference material and networking organizations.
by Vincent W. Hevern, SJ, Ph.D.
Be sure to follow the "Personal Documentary" Link. Keywords relevant to this site are: narrative, discourse analysis, storytelling, cultural and cross-cultural psychology, qualitative research, social constructivism, constructionism, postmodernism, critical realism, pedgagogy.
Collection of Social Anarchist and situationist texts including many on psychogeography and documentary experiemnts.
ELECTRONIC JOURNALSContains Journals/Archives (including POPMATTERS), Articles/Papers, Theorists and Critics, Calls for Papers/ Conferences, Book Reviews, Academic Programs,Bibliographies/ Reading Lists, Publishers, Newsgroups/ Listservs, General Links.
An excellent American Studies resource. This site, from Georgetown University, is frequently updated and sees a lot of action. Good for news from the American Studies Association.
The English Server at Carniegie Mellon has great links to Cultural Studies, Electronic Magazines and more.
Rhizome.org is a nonprofit organization that was founded in 1996 to provide an online platform for the global new media art community. Our programs and services support the creation, presentation, discussion and preservation of contemporary art that uses new technologies in significant ways. Our core activities include commissions, email discussions and publications, this web site, and events.
POETRY SITESPublic Anthropology seeks to make anthroplogy more accountable to the braoder communities thet support it.
Rain Taxi is a quarterly publication featuring reviews of literary fiction, poetry, and nonfiction, with an emphasis on works that push the boundaries of language, narrative, and genre. Press profiles, interviews, and in-depth reviews reflect Rain Taxi's commitment to spreading the word about the best in contemporary literature.
An ambitious electronic poetry magazine and multimedia enterprise. The site includes links to both current projects and archived work.
The Center for Documentary Studies at Duke's journal of prose, poetry, and photography. DoubleTake is devoted to words and images rendering "the world as it is and might be." Some archived material.
A Japanese journal devoted to covering recent trends in making and thinking about documentaries. Editors: Aaron Gerow, Monma Takashi.
This electronic journal seeks to displace the "colonial" as master signifier, while
also recognizing the persistent power of neocolonial practices, the continuing need for alternate discourses, and the increasingly complex intersections of race, class, gender and nation.
Hitting Critical Mass: A Journal of Asian American Cultural Criticism is committed to providing a forum for Asian American literary and cultural studies. Presenting innovative work by undergraduates, graduate students, faculty, and independent scholars, the journal encourages a variety of critical and theoretical approaches.
This journal of visual culture is dedicated to explorations of the material and political dimensions of cultural practices: the means by which cultural objects and communities are produced, the historical contexts in which they emerge, and the regimes of knowledge or modes of social interaction to which they contribute. University of Rochester.
Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture is an innovative culture studies journal dedicated to fostering an intellectual community composed of scholars and their audience, granting them all the ability to share thoughts and opinions on the most important and influential work in contemporary interdisciplinary studies.
Check out this Journal high lighting African American Culture.
EVERDAYLIFE LINKSThe Poetry Project located at St, Mark's Church in the Bowery, NYC, has events schedules, poetry news, and essays.
This site maintained by Los Glazier at UB's Wings.
an interactive archive of stories and snapshots. Drawing upon photographs collected from over 350 people, Collected Visions questions how family photographs shape our memories. Collected Visions was created by Lorie Novak, Clilly Castiglia, Betsey Kershaw, and Kerry O'Neill. Launched in May 1996, Collected Visions is a participatory website that explores the relationship between family photographs and memory.
"A treasure trove of mysterious notes, inane travel journal entries, calls for roommates, children's drawings, and letters pieced together after having been torn to pieces. Discovered in public places, each item suggests a larger story that it's up to you to imagine..." Says the Utne Reader
hosted by the Department of Sociology and the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at California State University, Fullerton, is a peer-reviewed journal that is devoted to the study of the "unmarked" -- those aspects of our everyday lives that typically go unnoticed by us, both as individuals and as academics. We approach these topics with both the sense of whimsy about the extraordinary efforts we put into maintaining such "mundane" aspects of our lives, and with the seriousness of intellectual integrity in our analysis of these matters.
The Center for the Ethnography of Everyday Life is an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation center devoted to the study of working families in the United States using the approaches of Cultural Anthropologists. They are oriented toward ethnography and located within the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research.
In the tradition of literary flâneurs—Walt Whitman, Fran Lebowitz, Alfred Kazin, Joseph Mitchell, the Beastie Boys—Flâneur seeks to scrutinize the city, to evoke the essence of the street. And to encourage flaneurial behavior, whether detached observation or decadent gadding about." Wonderful essays and photography.