Anthropology: Websites & Organizations

Fully searchable database of artifact/ethnographic, archaeological, and photography collections that have photographs of most of the items. There are also finding aids (documents to help you find information in manuscript collections) and an anthropological publications database.

Harvard's Peabody Museum has online exhibitions and a searchable collection.

Founded in 1902, the American Anthropological Association (AAA) is the world's largest organization of individuals interested in anthropology.

The AAPA is the world's leading professional organization for physical anthropologists. Formed by 83 charter members in 1930, the AAPA now has an international membership of over 1,700.

The Society has for its object the promotion of interdisciplinary scientific investigation of the principles controlling the relations of human beings to one another, and the encouragement of the wide application of these principles to practical problems.

The Society for Medical Anthropology was formed to promote study of anthropological aspects of health, illness, health care, and related topics.