- African Music Archive, Institute of Ethnology and African Studies, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz
- American Museum of Natural History, Central Archives and Manuscript Collections, New York
- American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Arab Image Foundation / Fondation Arabe pour l’Image, Beirut, Lebanon
- Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
- The Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America, University of Texas at Austin
- Archive of World Music, Harvard University, collects commercial and field recordings of ethnic and folk music, with a special emphasis on the music of Asia and the Middle
- Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Archives of African American Music and Culture, Indiana University
- Archives of Traditional Music, Bloomington, Indiana, includes the Archives of the Languages of the World and the former Institute for Liberian Studies
- Arizona State Museum Archives contains ethnographic and archaeological field documentation, sound recordings of Indian oral history, music and linguistic data relating to the Greater Southwest
- Babylonian Jewry Heritage Center, Or-Yehuda, Israel
- Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies is dedicated to collecting and interpreting materials reflecting our nation’s multicultural heritage.
- Bibliothèque du Laboratoire d’anthropologie sociale, l’École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris.
- Bibliothèque Éric-de-Dampierre (Laboratoire d’ethnologie et de sociologie comparative), La Maison René Ginouvès d’Archéologie et d’Ethnologie, Université de Paris X – Nanterre.
- Billie Jane Baguley Library and Archives, Heard Museum focuses on Native American art and culture with an emphasis on the Greater Southwest
- British Library of Political and Economic Science, London School of Economics and Poltical Science
- Canadian Museum of Civilization Archives
- Center of Southwest Studies, Fort Lewis College, Durango, Colorado
- Central California Folklore Archives, California State University, Fresno
- Cline Library Special Collections and Archives, Northern Arizona University, features online exhibits and a searchable image database
- Colorado River Indian Tribes Library/Archive, preserving and documenting Mohave, Chemehuevi, Navajo, and Hopi culture
- Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, Smithsonian National Museum of African Art
- Endangered Ethnographic Archive, Sofia, Bulgaria
- Ethnographic Archive of the Estonian National Museum, Tartu, Estonia
- Ethnographic Archives, Department of Anthropology, California State University, Chico
- Ethnographic Museum in Zagreb, Croatia
- Finnish Heritage Agency Collections, National Board of Antiquities, Helsinki, Finland
- Human Ethology Film Archive, Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
- Folklore and Ethnology Archive/Cartlanna, University College Cork, Ireland
- HADDON is an online catalogue of archival ethnographic films and film footage in archives, museums and other institutions worldwide
- Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution
- Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts Cultural Archive, New Delhi, India
- Kevin Barry Perdue Archive of Traditional Culture, University of Virginia
- Laboratory of Music Ethnology, Mykola Lysenko State Higher Music Institute, Ukraine
- Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Archives and Special Collections
- Mass-Observation Archive, University of Sussex
- La Médiathèque de la Maison Méditerranéenne des Sciences de l’Homme, Aix-en-Provence, France
- Melanesian Archive, University of California, San Diego
- Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies, Northwestern University, includes the fieldnotes of many of Herskovits’ students
- Morija Museum and Archives, Lesotho
- Mukurtu Wumpurrarni-kari Archive (Nyinkka Nyunyu Art and Culture Centre, Tennant Creek, NT, Australia)
- Mura Gadi is a guide to manuscript, pictorial and oral history materials relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders in the National Library of Australia
- Musée d’ethnographie de Neuchâtel, Switzerland
- Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, Laboratory of Anthropology, Santa Fe, New Mexico
- Museum of the Romanian Peasant, Bucharest, Romania
- Music Archive for the Pacific, Southern Cross University, Lismore, Australia
- National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
- National Museum of the American Indian Photo Archives includes historic scenes, portraits and field photographs of the museum’s ethnographic
and archaeological expeditions - Northwest Territories Archives, Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Center, Yellowknife, NT, Canada
- Orang Asli Archive, Keene State College, Keene, New Hampshire
- Pacific And Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (PARADISEC), Universities of Sydney, Melbourne, ANU and the Australian Research Council
- Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Anthropology Centre, Bangkok, Thailand
- Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives & Collections, Smithsonian Institution
- Rivers of Steel Archives, Homestead, Pennsylvania
- Rosetta Project, a global collaboration of language specialists and native speakers building a publicly accessible online archive of alldocumented human languages.
- The Rotuma Archive is dedicated to this Pacific island and its people
- Royal Anthropological Institute
- School of Oriental and African Studies Library, Archives and Manuscripts Division, London
- South Australian Museum Anthropology Archives
- Tulane University Latin American Image Archive contains over fifty major collections of photographs and close to 25,000 individual items, dating from the mid-19th century to the present
- University of California Los Angeles Ethnomusicology Archive collects sound recordings of folk, ethnic, and non-western classical music, including unpublished field recordings
- University of California Los Angeles Rock Art Archive
- University of Missouri-Columbia Museum of Anthropology Archives
- University of Pennsylvania Museum Archives
- University of Wollongong Library-Archives
- Victor Weybright Archives of the Gypsy Lore Society
- Virtual Institute of Mambila Studies (David Zeitlyn, University of Kent, Canterbury)
- Williams Afghan Media Project, Williams College, Williamstown, MA, and the Afghan Media Resource Center, Peshawar, Pakistan
- World Music Archives, Wesleyan University
- Films of Anthropological and Other “Ancestors” (Alan Macfarlane)
- Gregory Bateson (Vincent Kenny)
- J. Desmond Clark (UC Berkeley Anthropology Emeritus Lecture Series)
- Elizabeth Colson (UC Berkeley Anthropology Emeritus Lecture Series)
- Stewart Culin (University of Waterloo)
- Frank Hamilton Cushing (The West, Ken Burns and Stephen Ives, coproducers, WETA)
- Frederica de Laguna (Marie-Françoise Guédon)
- Francis Densmore (Stephen Smith, Minnesota Public Radio)
- Alice Fletcher, Harriet Cosgrove and Cora Du Bois (Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology)
- George M. Foster (UC Berkeley Anthropology Emeritus Lecture Series)
- Ernest Gellner (Jeffrey Cormier and Philippe Couton
- Carl E. Guthe (University of Michigan)
- John Peabody Harrington (Bob Edberg)
- Zora Neale Hurston (Kip Austin Hinton)
- G.I. Jones (John C. McCall, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale)
- William Jones (Collis H. Davis)
- Alfred Kroeber (The Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology, in association with the UC Berkeley Center for Studies in Higher Education’s Humanities and Technology Project)
- Margaret Mead (American Museum of Natural History).
- John Wesley Powell and the Bureau of American Ethnology (Mark J. Davis, Lost in the Grand Canyon, The American Experience, WGBH)
- Géza Rohéim (Association Géza Rohéim, France)
- John Howland Rowe (UC Berkeley Anthropology Emeritus Lecture Series)
- Isaac Schapera (Dr. Godisang Mookodi, university of Botswana)
- William A. Shack (UC Berkeley Anthropology Emeritus Lecture Series)
- Paul Stirling (Centre for Social Anthropology and Computing, University of Kent at Canterbury)
- Cyrus Thomas (Jon Muller, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale)
- Sherwood L. Washburn (UC Berkeley Anthropology Emeritus Lecture Series)
- Gordon R. Willey (Katherine Jones-Garmil, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology)
Resources for Anthropologists
- American Anthropology Obituary Index: American Anthropologist & Anthropology Newsletter (David Price, St. Martin’s College)
- AnthCal – The Anthropology Today Calendar of Events in Anthropology (Royal Anthropological Institute)
- Anthropological Index Online (Royal Anthropological Institute)
- AnthroSource, an evolving, interactive repository of research and communications tools for anthropologists, sponsored by the American Anthropological Association.
- Archives for Language Documentation and Description (Steven Bird, University of Pennsylvania)
- Council for Museum Anthropology Check out Directory of Museum Training for Students of Anthropologyand Anthropology Museums on the Web.
- Country Studies/Area Handbooks are prepared by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress.
- Documenting Endangered Languages is a multi-year NSF-NEH funding partnership supporting projects to develop and advance knowledge concerning endangered human languages.
- Ethnographic Thesaurus (ET), currently in the early stages of development, is a comprehensive controlled list of terms to be used in describing ethnographic research collections.
- Ethnologue: Languages of the World (edited by Barbara F. Grimes. SIL International. 13th edition.)
- Fourth World Documentation Project, Center For World Indigenous Studies
- History of Anthropology Newsletter (edited by George Stocking, University of Chicago)
- Indigenous Studies Virtual Library (Center for World Indigenous Studies)
- Institut fur den Wissenschaftlichen Film, Gottingen, Germany
- International Clearinghouse for Endangered Languages
- International Phonetic Association (IPA)
- Managing Archaeological Collections: Technical Assistance is produced by the Archeology and Ethnography Section of the National Park Service.
- National Archeological Database (Archeology and Ethnography Program, National Park Service) is an expanded bibliographic inventory of approximately 240,000 reports on archeological planning and investigation
- NativeWeb, resources for indigenous cultures around the world
- Public Anthropology is the home of Engaging Ideas, the Graduate Journal, and the Anthropology Journal Archive Project (Rob Borofsky)
- Resources in Ethnographic Studies (American Folklife Center, The Library of Congress)
- Script Encoding Initiative (Dept of Linguistics, UC Berkeley) is encouraging collaboration among scholars, users, and institutions in encoding scripts not yet in the Unicode Standard.
- Social Science Information Gateway: Ethnology, Ethnography and Anthropology (Institute for Learning and Research Technology, University of Bristol, UK)
- The Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas
- Terralingua: Partnerships for Linguistic and Biological Diversity
- Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research offers grants to help anthropologists prepare their professional papers for archival deposit.
- World E-Mail Directory of Anthropologists