undergraduate program
Resources
Important Student Links
Hints on Writing Papers in Anthropology
York University Senate policy on academic honesty
Anthropological essay citation style (AAA)
York University Counselling and Disability Services
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Careers
A CNN article on anthropologists working in the business sector.
An excellent interactive website, complete with an essay on anthropology careers and a number of videos of anthropologists at work in a number of fields. Click here.
This website highlights the skills possessed by anthropology majors, and suggests a number of career paths. Click here
This website from Human Resources Development Canada is Job Futures: World of Work which provides you with the practical information you need to prepare yourself for emerging employment opportunities. Click here.
This website is from the Government of Canada Job Bank Service. Click here.
Over 530 employers have posted almost 1,000 jobs on this site since August 2001. We are working to make this a year-round clearing house for jobs in academia as well as in non-academic settings.
You can view all recently posted job openings, or use our "advanced search" utility to pinpoint only those opportunities that match your specialty, desired location, or other needs (see here ). You can also post your resume or CV on line, at no cost here.
To view information on public service jobs for anthropologist click here.
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Organizations
The American Anthropological Association (AAA), the primary professional society of anthropologists in the United States since its founding in 1902, is the world's largest professional organization of individuals interested in anthropology. http://www.aaanet.org/index.htm
The American Ethnological Society is the oldest professional anthropological organization in the United States. Founded in 1842 to encourage research in the emerging field of ethnology, its stated goal was to foster "inquiries generally connected with the human race." Today the AES, a section of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) http://www.aaanet.org/aes/
Anthropology in Action brings together anthropologists concerned with health social and community work, education, organisational change, development and other fields of policy and practice.
The Canadian Anthropology Society/La Société canadienne d'anthropologie (CASCA) The Canadian Anthropology Society is a bilingual organization operating at a national level. It has for its mandate to: promote anthropology in Canada, support anthropological research and disseminate anthropological knowledge in the academic milieu and to the wider public. http://www.cas-sca.ca/
The Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association (CSAA)/La Société canadienne de sociologie et d'anthropologie (SCSA) The Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association (CSAA) is a professional association that promotes research, publication and teaching in Sociology and Anthropology in Canada. Its members include sociologists and anthropologists committed to research or education, in universities, government agencies and business. Its members also include students and individuals from any other discipline or affiliation who share a concern for sociology and anthropology. http://alcor.concordia.ca/~csaa1/
The Australian Anthropological Society (AAS) brings together professional anthropologists from Australia, and aims to promote the practice and teaching of the discipline. http://www.aas.asn.au/
The Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland (RAI) is the world's longest-established scholarly association dedicated to the furtherance of anthropology (the study of humankind) in its broadest and most inclusive sense. http://rai.anthropology.org.uk/
The Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK & the Commonwealth (ASA) was founded in 1946 to promote the study and teaching of social anthropology, to present the interests of social anthropology and to maintain its professional status. Its aim is to assist in any way possible in planning research, to collate and publish information on social anthropology and to function as a register of social anthropologists. http://les1.man.ac.uk/asa/
The European Association of Social Anthropologists was founded in 1989 and is open to all anthropologists who study or work in Europe. http://easa.uni-miskolc.hu/main.htm
The Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Incorporated, is a private operating foundation whose sphere of interest is the support of research in all branches of anthropology, including cultural/social anthropology, ethnology, biological/physical anthropology, archaeology, and anthropological linguistics, and closely related disciplines concerned with human origins, development, and variation. http://www.wennergren.org/
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Internet based bibliographic databases
Be sure to check the York Library for more, accessed only through their portal.
The Anthropological Index of the Royal Anthropological Institute http://aio.anthropology.org.uk/aio/AIO.html
Centre for Social Anthropology and Computing Anthropology Bibliography http://boas.ukc.ac.uk/cgi-bin/uncgi/search_bib2/Makhzan
UK Anthropology Theses http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/Theses/theses_intro.html
Bulletin of Information on Computing and Anthropology (BICA) http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/bicaindex.html
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Important Journals
American Ethnologist: a quarterly journal concerned with ethnology in the broadest sense of the term. Table of contents and abstracts only. http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/anthro/aes/amereth.html
Anthropology & Education Quarterly: the journal of the Council on Anthropology and Education, a professional association of anthropologists and educational researchers and a Section of the American Anthropological Association http://www.aaanet.org/cae/aeq/index.htm
The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology is published quarterly, in February, May, August and November, with the assistance of a grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. http://alcor.concordia.ca/~csaa1/CRSAeditPolicy.html
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Internet Resources
Anthropology Web Ring aims to bring together anthropology oriented sites on the internet to provide valuable links to all groups of interest. http://www.serve.com/archaeology/books/anthropology.html
AnthroSource: A portal for anthropological research, AnthroSource will provide electronic access to all AAA periodicals, past, present, and future in a single searchable, linked database. Go to the AAA Web site (http://www.aaanet.org/anthrosource) to access the AnthroSource.
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