Center for World Indigenous Studies

An archive of over 500 documents on indigenous peoples in the Americas, Africa, Asia, Europe, Melanesia, and the Pacific. Includes essays, position papers, resolutions, organizational information, treaties, UN documents, speeches, and declarations

Digital Himalaya

A project to develop digital collection, storage, and distribution strategies for multimedia anthropological information from the Himalayan region. A project to develop digital collection, storage, and distribution strategies for multimedia anthropological information from the Himalayan region

Ethnologue: Languages of the World

Provides authoritative information on over 6,000 living spoken languages. Bibliographies regularly updated

Mayan Epigraphic Database Project

The Mayan Epigraphic Database Project (MED) is an experiment in networked scholarship with the purpose of enhancing Classic Mayan epigraphic research. At present, MED consists of a relational database of glyphs ("gnumbers"), images, phonetic values ("pvalues"), and semantic values ("svalues"). Also present is the beginning of an archive of digitally transcribed Mayan texts.

National Anthropological Archives and Human Studies Film Archives

Collect and preserves historical and contemporary anthropological materials that document the world's cultures and the history of anthropology. Their collections represent the four fields of anthropology – ethnology, linguistics, archaeology, and physical anthropology – and include fieldnotes, journals, manuscripts, correspondence, photographs, maps, sound recordings, film and video created by Smithsonian anthropologists and other preeminent scholars