Sociology/Anthropology Visual Archives
 
Evolution of Humans and Culture,
Anthropology 101
This archive contains over 100 images of primates, homind fossils, and human material culture that are used in Anthropology 101 as well as supplementary materials for student research.
 Anthropology of South Asia
This archive contains images used in Anthropology 298, including photographs of different geographic regions, art portraying key historical figures, images from ongoing research, and illustrations of rituals and other cultural practices.

Monumental Transformation Project: Kathmandu Valley, Nepal This project documents recent changes in the sacred landscape of the Kathmandu Valley through the creation of a digital map and photo archive. The pilot project, which Bruce Owens is developing to engage student collaboration, focuses on the Buddhist site of Swayambhu as a means of developing a system for plotting changes elsewhere in Nepal.

 
Gender Advertisements (GA)
The GA archive represents the conceptual structure of Erving Goffman's path-breaking study on the social meanings encoded in how men and women are displayed in various kinds of photographs. Each entry in this archive includes all of Goffman's textual materials and one of the images associated with each of the 73 propositions that constitute his argument. The data base can be used to evaluate his argument, as well as for additional student research projects.

Urban Settlement Slide Show Archive This archive was prepared to accompany a lecture in John Grady's Urban Sociology course (Sociology 255). The sequence of 24 slides document an evolution of settlement form beginning with campsites of nomadic foragers though a bird's eye view from the air of a modern European city in 1950. The representations include maps, photographs, and sketches. Images of Southampton, England have been chosen to represent urban development from early pre-Roman sites through the present.

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