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Social Science
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Virtual Library: Social Sciences
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Anthropology
WWW Virtual Library:
Anthropology
American Anthropological
Association
American Association of
Physical Anthropologists
Human Biology Association
Society for Medical Anthropology
Society for Applied Anthropology
Society for Anthropological
Sciences
ANTHAP
Anthropological
Index Online
Anthropology
Resources on the Internet
Worldwide Email Directory of Anthropologists
Anthro.Net Research Engine
Anthropology
Tutorials
Human
Evolution in 3-D
Becoming Human
- a broadband documentary on human origins
What
to tell your parents when they ask you what you're going to
do with a major in anthropology
Research Methods and Statistics
Field Methods - a journal
devoted to methodology of fieldwork. Formerly Cultural
Anthropology Methods (CAM)
Center
for Social Research Methods - an excellent site maintained
by Bill Trochim. Includes the
Knowledge Base, a useful online textbook
Research
Methods in the Social and Natural Sciences - an interactive
tutorial on five basic research strategies in science: experiments,
correlation, surveys, naturalistic observation, and case studies
Methods
in Cultural Anthropology - a bibliography compiled by
Borut Telban
Methods
in Applied Anthropology - a bibliography compiled by Alvin
Wolfe
Qualitative
Tools for Multimethod Research - a comprehensive guide
and bibliography to overcome the qual-quant divide
Qualitative
Research - an excellent, comprehensive guide to resources
in qualitative research methods
The
QualPage - by Judy Norris
International Institute
for Qualitative Methodology - includes links to other
qualitative methods sites
INSNA
- the International Network of Social Network Analysis
Web-oriented
Teaching Resources in Probability and Statistics
Virtual
Lab in Statistics - based at Rice university, includes
case studies, an analysis lab, simulations, and another online
textbook: HyperStat
Online
Introduction
to Data Analyasis: Rules of Evidence - by Joel Levine
and Thomas Roos of Dartmouth College
Elementary
Methods of Quantitative Analysis Interactive Syllabus
- by Richard Timpone
Chance
- teaching tools for improving quantitative literacy
SPSS
Tutorial - on-line textbook with exercises and downloadable
datasets
Statistical Assessment
Service - offers a critical take on stats that make the
news
The R Project for Statistical
Computing - a free, open-source computing language and
environment for statistical computing and graphics (similar
to the commercial application, S-Plus).
The Scientific
Method - from sci.skeptic FAQ
Health and Medical Anthropology
General
MacArthur
Network on SES & Health
Harvard
Center for Society and Health
WWW
Virtual Library: Epidemiology
American Public Health Association
Society
for Medical Anthropology
Medical
Sociology section of the American Sociological Association
Supercourse in
Epidemiology, the Internet and Global Health
Understanding the Fundamentals
of Epidemiology - An Evolving Text
Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention
National Institutes of
Health Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research
MMWR current table
of contents
Healthy People
2010
World Health Report
2002 - from the World Health Organization
Ethnicity and Health
Office of Minority Health,
US Dept. of Health and Human Services
Initiative to Eliminate
Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health at the US Dept.
of Health and Human Services
Center for Research
on Ethnicity, Culture and Health at the University of
Michigan
Minority Health Project
at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Center for Minority
Health at the University of Pittsburgh
Center for
the Study of Race and Ethnicity in Medicine at the University
of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine
Minority Health
Resource Page at the Global
Health Network
Racial
Discrimination & Health Care - from Physicians for
Human Rights
Webcast
of Healthy People 2010 Session on "Eliminating Health
Disparities"
Webcast
of "Unequal Treatment, One Year Later: Addressing Healthcare
Disparities and Health Communications Needs of Racial and
Ethnic Minority Communities," March 19, 2003, Institute
of Medicine, Washington, D.C.
Key Facts:
Race, Ethnicity & Medical Care - report from the Kaiser
Family Foundation
Tackling
Health Inequalities: A Programme for Action - from the
UK Department of Health
Hypertension and Cardiovascular Disease
National Heart,
Lung, and Blood Institute
American Heart Association
American Society of Hypertension
World Hypertension League
Puerto Rico
Heart Health Program
Data Sources
World
Health Organization
World Bank - with
some comparative data on health
Global Cardiovascular
Infobase
FEDSTATS - search databases
of US federal agencies.
PAHO - Pan American Health
Organization
Caribbean Epidemiology Centre
Ethnicity and Racism
Race: The Power of an
Illusion - companion website to the PBS documentary
Is "Race" Real? - a web forum organized by the Social Science Research Council
Statement
on race - issued by the American Anthropological Association
Statement
on biological aspects of race - issued by the the American
Association of Physical Anthropologists
Does
Race Exist? - an online debate between two prominent anthropologists,
C. Loring Brace and George Gill
RaceSci - an
extensive resource on the history of "race" in science
OMB
Directive 15 - the federal government's revised standards
for collecting data on race and ethnicity
Response
to OMB Directive 15 - from the American Anthropological
Association
Race
and Ethnicity - from the US Bureau of the Census and Bureau
of Labor Statistics
Changing
America - chart data on the social and economic well-being
of racially defined groups in the US
World Conference
Against Racism
Racismo
en Puerto Rico - una entrevista con la Dra. Palmira Ríos-González
The Souls
of Black Folk - full text of W.E.B. DuBois's classic
work
Two
Towns of Jasper - PBS looks at the aftermath of the 1998
murder of James Byrd, Jr., in Jasper, TX
African Diaspora
Global Mappings:
A Political Atlas of the African Diaspora - interactive
site from the Institute for Diasporic Studies at Northwestern
The African
Presence in the Americas: 1492-1992 - an exhibition at
the
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
The
African Diaspora in Latin America - links from LANIC
The
African-American Mosaic - a guide to resources from the
U.S. Library of Congress
Africans
in America - from PBS
Through
the Lens of Time: Images of African Americans from the Cook
Collection of Photographs - nearly 300 images from the
nineteenth and early twentieth century, digitally housed at
Virginia Commonwealth University
Images
from the Transatlantic Slave Trade
Health
and Mortality in Antebellum Slavery
Puerto Rico
El Nuevo Día - Puerto
Rico's largest daily newspaper
Zonai.com
Puerto
Rico - links from the Latin American Network Information
Center (LANIC)
La Fortaleza
- Office of the Governor
Historia de los
Pueblos de Puerto Rico
Antojito Criollo
Express - online shopping for things from the island
Germany
Die Süddeutsche Zeitung
- from München
Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger -
what a wonderful city (with a wonderful beer)
Deutsche Welle - streaming
news broadcasts
Statistiches Bundesamt
- statistical office of the German federal government
Electronic Journals
Social Science
Social
Research Update
Sociological
Research Online
Electronic Journal of
Sociology
Journal
of Social Structure
Theoretical
Anthropology
Current
Research in Social Psychology
Health-Related
Electronic Publications - a listing by MedWeb
JAMA
British Medical Journal
The Lancet
Online Journal of Cardiology
Hypertension
Electronic Publishing
Journal of Electronic
Publishing
The Craft
HighWire Press
OCLC Online Computer
Library Center
Hypermedia
Ethnography
Miscellaneous
NPR Jazz - "where
jazz lives"
All About Jazz
- true to its name
Andrew Rathbun
- a great young jazz sax player who happens to be my brother-in-law
The Onion - stay informed
with "America's finest news source"
Hot AIR - from the Annals
of Improbable Research
On
the Origin of Species - by Means of Natural Selection,
or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for
Life
Erdos
Number Project - what's your number?
Caffeinated Magazine
- grab a cup o' joe
Sonny's
- Yummy!
100
Books that Shaped a Century of Science - according to
American Scientist
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