General Anthropology

The AnthroNet
The AnthroNet was created to facilitate access to Anthropological sources on the Internet for anthropology graduate students and faculty at the University of Virginia and for the world-wide anthropological community as a whole.

American Anthropological Association (AAA)
Founded in 1902, the American Anthropological Association (AAA) is the world's largest organization of individuals interested in anthropology. Although there were several other American anthropological societies in existence at the turn of the 20th century, this new, national organization was formed "to promote the science of anthropology, to stimulate and coordinate the efforts of American anthropologists, to foster local and other societies devoted to anthropology, to serve as a bond among American anthropologists and anthropologic[al] organizations present and prospective, and to publish and encourage the publication of matter pertaining to anthropology" (AAA Articles of Incorporation).

The Centre for Social Anthropology and Computing
The aim of the Centre is to advance anthropology by developing new methods and means for investigating anthropological problems, to promote the use of computers in 'ordinary' anthropology, and to provide advise and information resources for the anthropology community worldwide.

The Society for Medical Anthropology
The Society for Medical Anthropology (SMA) of the American Anthropological Association was founded in 1971 to promote the study of anthropological aspects of health, illness, health care, and related topics and to encourage communication and utilization of the results obtained from such studies. SMA members receive the Medical Anthropology Quarterly.

The Society for Medical Anthropology, led by president Carole Browner (UC Los Angeles), exists as a Section of the American Anthropological Association (AAA), which has about 10,500 members. The AAA's mission is to advance anthropology as the study of all aspects of humankind and to foster the use of anthropological knowledge in addressing human problems, and SMA's mission complements this with a more specific focus on issues relevant to the anthropological study of health and sickness.

Society for Economic Botany
The Society for Economic Botany (SEB) was established in 1959 to foster and encourage scientific research, education, and related activities on the past, present, and future uses of plants, and the relationship between plants and people, and to make the results of such research available to the scientific community and the general public through meetings.