Anthro Links

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Culture in the news and on the radio
Worlds of Difference: Worlds of Difference uses radio documentary features to explore the impact of global change on local cultures worldwide. Includes audio links as well as images and transcripts.

Anthropological and related perspectives on race and ethnicity:
AAA statement on race: The American Anthropological Association's statement on the concept of "race"
Understanding Race: an interactive Web resource developed by the American Anthropological Association.  This site offers educators and researchers the latest in scientific and scholarly information about race and human variation.
The Power of an Illusion: This site is the online companion to a PBS 3-part series on race in science, society, and history.  Particularly useful are the links to background readings and resources. Also interesting are the interactive links including a link on sorting people that addresses the subjectivity involved in categorizing people on the basis of appearance. 
Tangled Roots:Tangled Roots is a research project about the shared history of African Americans and Irish Americans. This site contains a collection of primary documents from the 17th century to the provide portraits of people and events from the history of African and Irish Americans and to further understand the tangled roots of race and ethnicity in America.

Kinship and marriage
Brian Schwimmer's tutorial: This link has an excellent overview of kinship terminology as well as a discussion of marriage patterns and residence.
AAA Statement on marriage: The American Anthropological Association's statement in response to President Bush's call for a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage as a threat to civilization.  This site also includes links to editorials written by anthropologists on this subject.

Language
language portraits: Offers a collection of audio links with over 80+ people reading a poem in their native language.
Palomar tutorial: The anthropology department at Palomar College has a series of tutorials including this introduction to human communication.

Topics in Physical Anthropology
Evolution:  PBS website:  what is the evidence for evolution?
                      AAA statment on Evolution and Creationism
Primates: The Living Links Center was established in 1997 for primate studies that shed light on human behavioral evolution. It is an integrated part of the Yerkes Primate Center, which is the nation's oldest and largest primate center.