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ANTHROPOLOGY
Creative resources to enable
faculty and students to research,
teach, and learn in new and
exciting ways.
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he largest collection of ethnographic video
documentaries and primary footage—over 1,700 hours,
with many rare and exclusive titles from independent
production companies and researchers.
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ver 350,000 pages of published monographs,
including leading publishers such as Princeton University
Press, Oxford University Press, and University of Hawai’i
Press.
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50,000 audio recordings from a wide range of labels,
including Smithsonian Folkways Recordings.
• Rare and previously unpublished materials from
partners such as the Royal Anthropological Institute, the
American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress, and
university archives.
Alexander Street brings unique functionality to this material.
In depth indexing lets users search and browse by cultural
group, place, subject, and ethnographer, optimizing visibility
for all material. Users can also search video transcripts to
locate specific cultural groups, rituals, traditions, or case
studies and watch relevant material within seconds.
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Introducing
Anthropology Commons
The Anthropology Commons is a ground-breaking collaboration to create the
world’s largest, most comprehensive open access repository of primary sources
in anthropology. Alexander Street, together with participating libraries, will launch
the Commons in early 2016 by making openly available 8,000 pages of Ruth
Benedict's fieldwork. Open content will be fully indexed and cross-searchable
with all Alexander Street anthropology collections for easy discoverability, creating
a new standard for open-access resources in the field.
Two ways your library can get involved
1.Subscribe to Alexander Street Premium Services.
For a nominal annual fee, Premium Services will enable you to upload and host
an unlimited amount of your own content, with permission controls to keep
content local or publish it to the world.
With Premium Services, your library can:
•Upload and host unlimited content
•Get a free subscription to Teaching Anthropology Online, containing 50
hours of film and support materials for teaching introductory anthropology
courses.
•Customize a unique landing page with your institutional branding.
•Increase usage of your locally owned content. Uploaded content will be
indexed and presented to thousands of anthropologists around the world.
•Manage permissions controls by limiting access to your uploaded content to
specific users, passwords, or just your institution.
•Get usage reports to see how the Anthropology Commons is being used
internally.
•Download free MARC records for selected materials on the Commons.
•Attend monthly training sessions to learn best practices for how to upload
and use content.
2.Purchase an Alexander Street Contributing Collection
When you purchase any of these collections, Alexander Street will contribute 10%
of the proceeds toward building and maintaining the Anthropology Commons.
ALEXANDER STREET Contributing Collections
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Anthropology Online
Ethnographic Video Online: Volumes I, II, and III
Anthropological Fieldwork Online
Early Encounters in North America
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North American Indian Thought and Culture
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ANTHROPOLOGY
Anthropological Fieldwork
Online Multimedia
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Accessing the ethnographies that launched and defined the study of anthropology
in the 20th century is straightforward. But what of the field notes, images,
and video that formed the backbone of these seminal works? These physical
media are spread around the world in archives and private collections, nearly
inaccessible to researchers without the financial resources to travel and stay
onsite. Anthropological Fieldwork Online will solve this problem by digitizing
and publishing, with careful attention to privacy and defined access rights, the
fieldwork of scholars who have left a lasting impact on theoretical frameworks
and anthropology curricula throughout
the 20th century. Through indexing
Intrigued? We are seeking
and cross-searchability, these digitized
advisers and recommendations on this
resources can be searched, analyzed,
project, so please reach out to us at
and connected in new ways, providing
anthropology@alexanderstreet.com
a deep understanding of the outcomes
if you’re interested.
and impacts of anthropological research.
Teaching Anthropology
Online Multimedia
Whether you are a veteran educator looking for an update or a brand new teacher
creating a course from scratch, Teaching Anthropology Online provides you
with the tools you need to make classroom teaching more effective than ever
before. This syllabi-driven collection contains anthropology’s most popular videos
for illustrating core concepts at the introductory level and features a repository
of new teaching resources such as teaching guides, classroom exercises and
activities, supplemental texts, lesson-plan templates, abstracts, and teacher
recommendations. It is a compact and focused collection offering an affordable
option for smaller institutions.
Produced in partnership with the Education Committee of the Royal
Anthropological Institute, Teaching Anthropology Online provides strong
yet flexible support based on the needs of individual courses. For those with
established courses seeking new films and clips to support tried-and-true
teaching objectives, the platform will provide easy and quick mechanisms for
searching relevant content and integrating it into learning management systems.
For teachers who need maximum support to design a new course or who are
teaching for the first time, the platform offers a wealth of supporting materials to
contextualize films, build out commonly taught topics, and integrate classroom
activities and exercises.
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Ethnographic Video Online:
Volume III, Indigenous Voices
Multimedia
As the “us vs. them” paradigm is
deconstructed, the perspectives
of indigenous peoples have taken
on central significance to the field
of anthropology. In order to create
a platform for indigenous voices
addressing indigenous issues, we
have dedicated the third volume of
Ethnographic Video Online to the
works of indigenous filmmakers.
Ethnographic Video
Online:
Volumes I and II video
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Ethnographic Video Online: Volumes
I and II contain documentaries, shorts,
and ethnographies from every continent
and hundreds of cultures, and include
films from the most significant names
in visual anthropology, such as the
Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI),
Documentary Educational Resources
(DER), and many independent
producers and distributors previously
unavailable outside their regions.
Volume I offers essential footage from
the early days of visual ethnography,
including the works of Timothy Asch,
Robert Gardner, and John Marshall.
Volume II provides contemporary
counterpoints to the classic content
in Volume I, exploring growing areas
of study such as environmental
anthropology, medical anthropology,
and language preservation. Additionally,
Volume II contains follow-up studies of
the communities at the heart of classic
ethnographies, allowing for analysis of
cultural change over time. When used
in tandem, these two volumes illustrate
the evolution of visual anthropology
from the 1960s to the present.
Ethnographic Video Online: Volume
III, Indigenous Voices is the only
academic collection in the world to
offer such a comprehensive resource
of documentaries, feature films, and
shorts made by indigenous people.
Topics are simultaneously local and
global, with a particular emphasis on
the human effects of climate change,
sustainability, indigenous and local
Anthropology Online
Books and Manuscripts
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Anthropology Online brings together
a wide range of written ethnographies,
seminal texts, memoirs, and
contemporary studies, covering human
culture and behavior the world over.
The collection contains the published
versions of the research aggregated
in Anthropological Fieldwork Online
(forthcoming), making this database a
perfect companion piece. When used
together, the two collections present
firsthand insight into the process that
transforms field notes into finished
manuscripts.
The collection will become the most
comprehensive resource for the study
of social and cultural life throughout
the 20th century, providing the
works of such key practitioners and
theorists as Franz Boas, Ruth Benedict,
Margaret Mead, Claude Levi-Strauss,
Clifford Geertz, Max Gluckman, David
MacDougall, Paul Rabinow, E. E. EvansPritchard, Robert Borofsky, and more.
Anthropology Online covers all areas
of the discipline, including cultural
anthropology, linguistic anthropology,
archaeology, and physical anthropology,
ways of interpreting history, cultural
change, and traditional knowledge
and storytelling.
and contains works from major
publisher catalogs such as Oxford
University Press, Waveland Press,
Princeton University Press, University of
Hawai’i Press, the Royal Anthropological
Institute, and many more.
Smithsonian Global
Sound® for Libraries
AUDIO
Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries
contains the complete archive of
the Folkways label, one of the most
important audio collections of world
music available today. It currently
provides streaming access to over
42,000 tracks from the Smithsonian
archives and world music archives
in Asia and Africa, and is growing
regularly as new recordings are added.
This collection has been produced in
partnership with the Smithsonian and is
exclusively available through Alexander
Street. Smithsonian Global Sound for
Libraries provides extensive coverage
for world music, including recordings
from over 169 countries representing
over 450 languages, together with
associated album art and notes.
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A Contributing Collection to the
Anthropology Commons. See page 3.
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About Our Films
ANTHROPOLOGY
Early Encounters
in North America
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Books, Images, and Manuscripts
Painstakingly assembled from hundreds
of sources, this database provides
over 100,000 pages documenting
the peoples of North America from
1534 to 1850. The collection focuses
on personal accounts and offers
unique perspectives from all of the
protagonists, including traders, slaves,
missionaries, explorers, soldiers, and
officials, both native peoples and
colonists. The project brings coherence
to a wide range of published and
unpublished accounts, including
narratives, diaries, journals, and letters. It
includes the complete run of The Jesuit
Relations, with in-depth indexing that
allows researchers to identify materials
written by specific ethnic groups.
North American
Indian Thought
and Culture
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Books, Images, and Manuscripts
North American Indian
Thought and Culture
brings together more
than 100,000 pages,
many of which are
previously unpublished,
rare, or hard to
find, and integrates
autobiographies,
biographies, Indian
publications, oral histories, personal
writings, photographs, drawings,
and audio files for the first time in
one online database. The result is
a comprehensive representation
of historical events as told by the
individuals who lived through them.
The database is an essential resource
for all those interested in serious
scholarly research into the history of
American Indians, Alaska Natives, and
Canadian First Peoples.
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A Contributing Collection to the
Anthropology Commons. See page 3.
Purchase or subscribe to
any of more than 26,000
award-winning titles from
leading filmmakers and producers
at www.academicvideostore.com.
Each film is available in either
streaming or DVD format.
Featured films from the legendary Dennis O’Rourke
• Yumi Yet: An account of
Papua New Guinea’s first
independence day after a
century of colonial rule,
O’Rourke’s first film set a new
precedent for filmmaking as
he pieced together narrative
through the words of the reallife characters and footage of
events, allowing local voices to
resonate with the audience.
• Ileksen, Politics in Papua New
Guinea: Building on the story
of Yumi Yet, Ileksen is the report
of Papua New Guinea’s first
electoral process and a deeply
dark exploration of postcolonial
reality.
• Yap …How Did You Know
We’d Like TV?: When televisions
were brought to the Pacific
island of Yap, complete with the
American programming and
advertising that came with them,
many islanders believed it was a
conspiracy to foster dependency.
In this film, O’Rourke gives voices
to those perspectives and the
lasting impact that television has
had on Yap.
• The Sharkcallers of Kontu:
Depicting an ancient ritual
whereby a select group of men
undertake a journey to capture
and kill sharks by hand, this
film raises provocative and
necessary questions about how
such sacred rituals are being
destroyed by Western religion,
education, and values.
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• Couldn’t Be Fairer: A candid
window into an often hidden
side of Aboriginal Australian
society, told through the voice
of Aboriginal activist Mick
Miller. The issues raised, such
as race relations and violence,
substance abuse, and political
oppression, remain relevant 20
years later.
• Half Life – A Parable for
the Nuclear Age: Rooted in
first-person interviews, Half
Life is a chilling and honest
investigation into United Statesled nuclear testing in the Pacific
and the real and lasting impact
it had on people, now and for
generations to come.
• Cannibal Tours: One of the
most influential and enduring
ethnographic documentaries
ever produced, Cannibal Tours
explores the phenomenon of
the growing tourism industry in
Papua New Guinea, and in the
process turns the ethnographic
lens on Western mass-market
culture with disturbingly
perceptive insight and candor.
• The Good Woman of
Bangkok: A candid story about
prostitution, this film is, in the
words of O’Rourke himself, “…a
metaphor for capitalism, here
played out across the borders
of race and culture, and about
prostitution as a metaphor for
all relations between women
and men.”
About Our Streaming Video
Synchronous, scrolling transcripts
Search the entire archive for a single
word and jump right to it.
High-speed
streaming video
Automatically
adjusts to your
bandwidth.
Intuitive video editor
Create, annotate, and share clips
and playlists, then easily slide
them into a syllabus or LMS.
PLUS
Powerful browsing facets:
Discover new content while you
search and explore
Citation generator:
Export instantly in APA, Chicago, and
MLA
Hyper-targeted search:
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looking for
Sophisticated admin portal:
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24-hour currency
Unparalleled support:
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Manager, video tutorials, and more
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Anthropology Commons
Anthropological Fieldwork Online
Teaching Anthropology Online
Ethnographic Video Online:
Volume III, Indigenous Voices
Ethnographic Video Online: Volumes I and II
Anthropology Online
Smithsonian Global Sound® for Libraries
Early Encounters in North America
North American Indian
Thought and Culture
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