Psychological and psychiatric anthropology are two fields concerned with a number of issues around the interaction of social structure, cultural processes, and human psyches. Related fields include cultural and social psychology, cross-cultural or transcultural psychiatry, psychiatric epidemiology, the old "Culture and Personality" studies in anthropology and the related literature on “national character” in sociology and political science, as well as aspects of medical anthropology and sociology. This page draws together various resources for researchers in these areas.

1. Professional organizations
2. Potential funding sources for research and graduate study
3. Departments with historical strengths in psychological anthropology and related fields
4. Journals
5. Bibliographies, Indexes, and Databases.
6. Language Resources for Cross-Cultural Research.
7. Resources for psychological testing.
8. Home pages of anthropologists, psychiatrists, psychologists, & philosophers
9. Evolutionary psychology, sociobiology, and other evolutionary perspectives

Also see my site on Culture-Bound Syndromes and the syllabus for my upcoming course in psychological anthropology.

If you have suggestions for additions, please let me know.

-- Timothy M. Hall

• American Anthropological Association.
• Society for Psychological Anthropology.
• Society for Medical Anthropology.
• Society for Linguistic Anthropology.
• Society for Anthropological Sciences a relatively new organization for the promotion of scientific and empirically based research in anthropology. Great website with resources for teaching.

• American Psychiatric Association.
• American Psychological Association.
• International Association for Sex Research.
• The Across-Species Comparisons and Psychopathology Society For evolutionary psychiatrists, psychologists, and others interested in sociophysiological integration

• WEDA -- Worldwide Email Directory of Anthropologists.

• Office of Behavioral and Social Science Research (OBSSR at NIH)
• NIMH Home Page
• National Science Foundation - Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences
• The Spencer Foundation funding for education-related research.
• The Wenner-Gren Foundation offers funding for anthropological research at every level.
  Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Inc.
  220 Fifth Avenue, 16th Floor
  New York, NY 10001-7708

  Phone: (212) 683-5000

• Also, check out my list of general funding sites for the social sciences.

• ETHOS the journal of the Society for Psychological Anthropology (and a direct link to the archives for those with JSTOR access) and a list of the publications of the Society for Psychological Anthropology

• Transcultural Psychiatry (continuation of Transcultural Psychiatric Research Review) from McGill University Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry.

• The Journal of Cognition and Culture provides a forum for the emerging field of cognitive accounts of cultural phenomena and investigations of cultural phenomena that reveal human cognitive regularities. The editors welcome contributions from experimental psychology, developmental psychology, social cognition, neuroscience, human evolution and cognitive anthropology: submission info.
• Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), Archives of General Psychiatry, and other AMA publications.
• Journal of Affective Disorders on-line (along with other links at Elsevier Publishing), official journal of the International Society for Affective Disorders.

• The Human Nature Daily Review, edited by Ian Pitchford, founder and former moderator of the Evolutionary Psychology discussion group.
  The resource currently contains:
  • Books
  • Debates on Evolutionary Theory
  • Evolution on the WWW
  • Creationism and Evolution
  • Historical Archive (including the complete works of Charles Darwin).

• Electronic archives of Behavioral and Brain Sciences.
• Journal of Memetics: Evolutionary Models of Information Transmission.
• Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology.
• Journal of World Systems Research.

• PubMed NIH's public access to MedLine, the medical literature search engine.

• CogPrints is an electronic archive for papers in any area of Psychology, Neuroscience, and Linguistics, and many areas of Computer Science (e.g., artificial intelligence, robotics, vison, learning, speech, neural networks), Philosophy (e.g., mind, language, knowledge, science, logic), Biology (e.g., ethology, behavioral ecology, sociobiology, behaviour genetics, evolutionary theory), Medicine (e.g., Psychiatry, Neurology, human genetics, Imaging), Anthropology (e.g., primatology, cognitive ethnology, archeology, paleontology), as well as any other portions of the physical, social and mathematical sciences that are pertinent to the study of cognition.

• Annotated Bibliography on Cultural Psychiatry and Related Topics, by Francis G. Lu, M.D.

• Shaun Gallagher's Bibliography and On-Line Texts on Person, Self, Personal Identity

• On-line archives of scientific papers:
  • Science: http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/science.html
  • Nature: http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/nature.html http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/nature2.html
  • American Scientist: http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/amlet.html
  • Chronicle of Higher Education: http://www.chronicle.com/free/v45/i04/04a02901.htm
• Anthro Journals
  The site is free, and is a listing of anthropological (broadly defined) journals with links to relevant publishers/society web pages. Some of these have journal content info.
• Bibliography of 15,000 anthro books and articles

• Centers for Disease Control
• CDC Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report
• CDC Wonder: searchable database of summaries and statistics.
• Suicide Facts

• World Health Organization WHO Information Sources and
• WHO Statistical Information System (WHOSIS)
• World Health Organization

• Magnus Hirschfeld Archives of Sexology at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

• The International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences. You can now search over 1500 abstracts, 4000 authors, biographies and editorial details.

Language and Ethnographic Resources

http://www.yourdictionary.com/ is a portal for online dictionaries, providing links to more than 1800 dictionaries representing more than 230 languages. These dictionaries are organized into five different sections:

• Language Dictionaries Links to online dictionaries in 230 different languages, from Afrikaans and Aklanon to Xhosa and Zoque.
• Specialty Dictionaries Links to dictionaries and glossaries of specialized words in the English language in fields ranging from advertising and agriculture to travel and water.
• Multilingual Dictionaries Links to dictionaries that use several different languages.
• Translation Engines Links to tools that let you translate between all European languages.
• Other Indicies
• and links to other dictionary indices

• Oley, PA - The combined collections of four leading distributors of independent documentary film & video, representing over 1,800 of the highest quality films & videos, are now searchable simultaneously at one new web site: www.docuseek.com
• Indigenous PeoplesThis is a library of over 500 documents relating to indigenous peoples throughout the world, including Native American tribes, the Maori, Australian Aborigines, the Sami, and others. Hosted by the New Zealand Digital Library project.

Resources for Psychological Testing:

• Projective Methods
• The Psychological Corporation publishers of many psychological tests, including the Beck Depression Inventory, and of psychological textbooks.
• Tests, Tests, Tests links to many psychological tests on-line, including intelligence and personality tests.
• Personality Tests links to personality tests.
• International Personality Item Test Pool an attempt to collate the items of the major personality measurements, so that research will be more comparable. Includes the items from most major personality tests, as well as breakdowns by category, etc.
• Brainclub's Homepage: links to on-line IQ tests.
• European IQ Test: tests IQ up to 174.
• Online Intelligence Quotient (IQ) Test the GIQTest, designed to simulate a real clinical IQ
  assessment and modeled after Standford-Binet V and the WAIS-III.

• Kinship & Social Structure Tutorial.
• WWW Virtual Library: Subject Catalog, a collection of links in various fields, maintained at Stanford.
• zoomQuake ancient history and antiquarian studies links.
• Careers in Anthropology links.
• Anthropology Biographies @ Mankato State University.
• Michael Murphy's jumpsite for the anthropology of religion.
• Anthropology links @ WCSU.
  • World Area Studies links @ WCSU.
• Cool Anthro links @ UCSB.

• William H. Calvin, evolutionary scientist with interests especially in the evolution of the human brain.
• John R. Skoyles, philosopher with interests in epistemology and philosophy of science (especially Karl Popper), and evolution of human intelligence.
• Yolanda Lucire a psychiatric/medical anthropologist, specializing in repetitive stress injuries.

  And specific articles:

• Genesis of a Serial Killer, by Jeremy Anderson.
• Malcolm Gladwell's publications and his New Yorker articles.

Evolutionary Psychology and Sociobiology:

• Evolutionary Psychology: "The goal of research in evolutionary psychology is to discover and understand the design of the human mind. Evolutionary psychology is an approach to psychology, in which knowledge and principles from evolutionary biology are put to use in research on the structure of the human mind. It is not an area of study, like vision, reasoning, or social behavior. It is a way of thinking about psychology that can be applied to any topic within it. In this view, the mind is a set of information-processing machines that were designed by natural selection to solve adaptive problems faced by our hunter-gatherer ancestors. This way of thinking about the brain, mind, and behavior is changing how scientists approach old topics, and opening up new ones."

• Human Behavior and Evolution Society

• Darwin and Darwinism

• The site for Memes

• The Rutgers research group on evolution and higher cognition has set up a web archive of their recent papers on mindreading, pretense, rationality, and mental disorders.

• A large web site edited by Donald Forsdyke containing selected papers and commentary on various aspects of evolution, both current and historical. The site will in due course also contain the entire Darwin correspondence which is being published by Cambridge University Press.

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