The American Museum of Natural History has recently launched a “new website”:http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/ which makes available for free its scientific publications. This includes its “Antrhopological Papers”:http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/handle/2246/6 as well as the older “memoir series”:http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/handle/2246/6 which contains more than a few classical anthropological pieces, like those of “Franz”:http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/handle/2246/8//items-by-author?author=Boas%2C+Franz “Boas”:http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/handle/2246/8//items-by-author?author=Boas%2C+Franz%2C+1858-1942 and “George Hunt”:http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/handle/2246/8//items-by-author?author=Hunt%2C+George, “Robert Lowie”:http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/simple-search?query=Lowie&submit=Search+&pubs=sci (particularly well represented) and “Alfred Kroeber”:http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/simple-search?query=kroeber&submit=Search+&pubs=sci. “Kwakiutl texts”:http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/handle/2246/23 anyone (warning: 4 megabyte PDF)? All we need is the Canadian Department of Mines to digitize their anthropological memoirs and Time Perspective in Aboriginal American Culture, A Study In Method will finally be at the world’s fingertips!

I could poke around all day in the AMNH’s collection. Much thanks to AMNH for making this trove of texts available using MIT’s “DSpace”:http://libraries.mit.edu/dspace-mit/ software.