The National Anthropological Archives and Human Studies Film Archives collect and preserve historical and contemporary anthropological materials that document the world’s cultures and the history of the discipline. Their collections represent the four fields of anthropology – ethnology, linguistics, archaeology, and physical anthropology – and include manuscripts, fieldnotes, correspondence, photographs, maps, sound recordings, film and video created by Smithsonian anthropologists and other preeminent scholars.
They also have a blog (well, it has an RSS feed – but no permalinks…) telling you what’s new in the collection. Recently announced is an effort to “digitize 8,000 pages of Cherokee language manuscripts.” The site also has a few online exhibits, including this one of Lakota Winter Counts.
I did a big chunk of my PhD research as a Smithsonain Fellow at the NAA — there’s some great stuff in there, and a lot of anthropologists (probably most) don’t even know it exists. I”m glad to see them start digitizing some of the collection — hopefully someday it will all be available electronically, before some of the older materials dissolve into dust.
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