Archive for November, 2009
The Worldwide Email Directory of Anthropologists (WEDA) is a searchable database of address and research information about anthropologists from around the world. This is a completely volunteer project, established to encourage and aid scholarly communication. Here, anthropology is taken in its widest sense, to include physical, earth, and social scientists, as well as their colleagues in the humanities. Students and scholars, applied anthropologists, professionals and a vocationalists are all to be found here: at last count, 2,020 institutions and 4,919 individuals. There are four different ways to search:
by using all or part of a person’s name, by title of an institution or business, by geographic location, and by research specialty. Click on the appropriate button, and you can add your own e-mail address and profile details to the database. This site attracts more than 3,000 visitors a month and is rapidly becoming one of the most popular anthropology resources on the Internet. As a bonus, it also offers very useful links to other anthropology-related search tools on the Web. The Worldwide e-mail Directory of Anthropologists is available in English, French and Spanish versions, and is hosted by the State University of New York at Buffalo Department of Anthropology.