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Welcome to the Anthropology WikiProject. We are a group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of Anthropology.

(For more information on WikiProjects, please see Wikipedia:WikiProject and the Guide to WikiProjects).

Goals

• This project is dedicated to creating, improving, and maintaining articles related to the subject of anthropology.

Scope

• The scope of this project is the field of Anthropology, with an emphasis on the field often referred to as cultural anthropology.

Contents 1 Guidelines 2 Overlap with other projects 3 Open tasks 4 Articles 4.1 Featured content 4.1.1 Featured articles 4.1.2 Candidates 4.2 Collaboration and review 4.3 New articles 5 Article alerts 6 Templates 7 Categories 8 Members

[edit] Guidelines

For best practices in creating and editing articles, see the Wikipedia:Manual of Style.

[edit] Overlap with other projects

Since anthropology is such a broad subject, there will probably need to be a lot of cooperation with other wikiprojects. Already existing wikiprojects that might overlap with this include (but are definitely not limited to):

• WikiProject Anatomy
• WikiProject Archaeology*
• WikiProject Culture*
• WikiProject Ethnic groups*
• WikiProject Evolutionary biology
• WikiProject History
• WikiProject Indigenous peoples of North America
• WikiProject Linguistics
• WikiProject Primates*
• WikiProject Psychology
• WikiProject Sociology

Note: An * denotes a project that might end up becoming under our parentage.

[edit] Open tasks

This is a new project, and several things need to be done now. Many of these things will remain important as the project develops. Among them are

• Recruiting new members and keeping the members we have
• Improving the articles within the scope of this project
• Creating articles which are important, but do not yet exist
• Actively maintaining the quality of articles which already exist, including making changes to them as required by circumstance

[edit] Articles

[edit] Featured content

[edit] Featured articles

• Azerbaijani people
• Belarusian Republican Youth Union
• Black Seminoles
• Dayuan
• Greco-Buddhism
• History of erotic depictions
• Homo floresiensis
• Iranian peoples
• Ketuanan Melayu
• Mandan
• Names of the Greeks
• Pashtun people
• Prostitution in the People's Republic of China
• Sociocultural evolution
• Taiwanese aborigines
• Tamil people
• Toilets in Japan
• Toraja

[edit] Candidates

[edit] Collaboration and review

Collaboration of the Month.

• Current Collaboration of the month: Kinship

• Nominations for future Collaborations of the Month are currently being called.

Proposal: Soviet Anthropology This is particularly interesting due to the role of Soviet anthropologists in nation building linked to Narkomnats, with the eventual demise of many prominent anthropologists in the purges.

Peer review

Assessment

[edit] New articles

Please feel free to list your new Anthropology-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box the Main Page.

• Khuplam Milui Lenthang - This article needs some work, not even sure if the subject is notable - any experts able to help?
• Kuhikugu - A series of ancient communities in the Brazilian rainforest.
• Gobero - An early to mid-Holocene community and graveyard in the Sahara desert; the oldest known burial ground in the region.
• Holmul, Guatemala-An ancient lowland Mayan city and region in the jungle of Guatemala.
• John Collier (anthropologist) - John A. Collier, Jr., visual and applied anthropologist
• Homo Ludens
• Arpad Vass A fact from Arpad Vass appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know? column on July 8, 2008.
• Lester Hiatt - Aust. anthopologist stub
• Biocultural evolution
• Biocultural diversity
• Peter Sutton - Aust. anthropologist & linguist stub

[edit] Article alerts

Good article nominations

• 9 Dec 2009 – 2012 phenomenon (talk) is nominated as GA candidate by SchfiftyThree.

Bounty board

• 19 Nov 2009 – Bounty for bringing Cro-Magnon (talk) to FA status: $100 CAD donation by Pathoschild.

Other news

• 10 Dec 2009 – The cleanup listings from WolterBot have updated.
• 7 Dec 2009 – A new edition of the Wikipedia Signpost is out.
• 30 Nov 2009 – The new book-class is released. See the Signpost article and the setup guide for details. Contact Headbomb for questions and help.
• 28 Nov 2009 – A new database dump is available.

Archives

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[edit] Templates

• Talkpage banner, for all articles which fall within the scope of this project:

{{WPAnthro|class=|importance=}}

• Main Topic template - sidebar :

{{Anthropology}}

• Collaboration of the month - talkpage banner:

{{Current-ANTHCOTM}}

• Userbox:

{{User WPAnthro}}

[edit] Categories

[edit] Members

Please feel free to add yourself here, and to indicate any areas of particular interest.

1. Chri$topher (talk) 6:24, 15 May 2009 (UTC): Early Archaeology.
2. Abhishekbh (talk) 05:21, 30 April 2008 (UTC): Mostly tribal cultures and their relation of modern cultures; and linguistics
3. Alastair Haines 16:07, 16 March 2007 (UTC) postgrad in ANE love poetry (Sumerians, Egyptians, language, literature and customs; and love poetry in any culture)
4. Amanda 22:25, 27 April 2008 (UTC) Mostly archaeology, specific interest in Latin America though would love to expand
5. Amerique 11:04, 24 September 2006 (UTC) Interested in language and culture, Americanist issues.
6. Bendž|Ť 17:38, 7 July 2007 (UTC)
7. Birdmessenger 17:04, 6 September 2006 (UTC) (as time permits)
8. BMF81 20:25, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
9. Bob 18 March 2008 Masks, puppets, folklore
10. Bruceanthro 12:46, 9 November 2007 (UTC): Australian Aboriginal Heritage, BioCultural Studies, & Cultural Landscapes
11. BruceGrubb (talk) 09:15, 20 December 2008 (UTC) General anthropology/archaeology, Museum Science
12. Carptrash 04:36, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
13. Carwil 18:35, 9 August 2007 (UTC)
14. Celestialteapot 2 May 2007 Archaeologist of the American Northwest, also urban sociocultural anthropologist. Looking forward to helping clean house.
15. Chris4682
16. Chrismmiles 4:55, 28 may 2008: evolutionary and physical anthropology graduate, what I know: ancient hominids and australopithicenes evolution, relationship, sex roles and social structure, aggression, kinship theory, social evolution, neurobiology, genetic relatedness of different species, altruistic theory, game theory, animal behavior in regards to reproductive success, some psychology, also economics graduate. Yahoo messenger chrismmiles88
17. cleansport 3:13 16 june 2008 I would love to create some pages on tribes that are not represented on wikipedia, tribes like the beng of the ivory coast, as well as improving some of the sites related to uncontacted tribes in the brazilian rainforest and relations to FUNAI.(Cleansport (talk) 22:14, 16 June 2008 (UTC))
18. Cowpepper 10:00, 30 May 2007 (UTC) Interested in the Americas.
19. Dhimelright 00:31, 3 July 2007 (UTC) linguistics
20. Doug
21. Duncan Drury - interested in National Identity, theories of power in Anthropology and African Anthropology
22. Dwaine m 16:39 07 june 2008 (GMT) socio-cultural, ethnography, linguistics
23. Elle - interested in cultural anthropology, especially in anthropology of religion, mythology, and funerary rituals
24. FrancisTyers ·
25. girl2k 04:18, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
26. GraMicE 04:02, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
27. Harrypotter (talk) 09:13, 27 June 2008 (UTC) Soviet Anthropology
28. íslenskur fellibylur #12 _(samtal) 20:57, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
29. joeklein Evolutionary Anthropology, Primatology, Human Osteology, Linguistic Anthropology, Germanic Cultures
30. Jrtayloriv (talk) 22:43, 17 March 2009 (UTC) -- cultural / economic / political anthropology
31. Jseipel 01:45, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
32. JWB 23:25, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
33. Levalley Biological and linguistic anthropology, European prehistory, Native Americans, Polynesia, Semiotics.
34. Marek69 (talk) 15:40, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
35. Maziotis (talk) 13:06, 21 October 2008 (UTC) Cultural and Evolutionary anthropology
36. Mccajor psychological and psychiatric anthropologist: psychological anthropology, sociocultural anthropology, Central Europe, medical and psychiatric anthropology. Interested in cleaning up the general overview pages (Anthropology, Cultural anthropology, Social anthropology and so on.
37. Mike Fischer most
38. Mojaloxo 18:30, 9 October 2007 (UTC) : Cultural anthropology, Anthropology of religions, anthropology and representation. However, I am not yet very familiar yet with Wikipedia editing but am learning!
39. Mostlyharmless (talk): race, representation, nationalism, post-colonial Indonesia
40. Newsroom hierarchies (talk) 18:02, 9 February 2008 (UTC); Cultural anthro, ethnographic films and mass media
41. Novinha, varied interest, most expertise in archaeology of sub-saharan africa and mesoamerica, and cultural anthropology of modern-day maya and nahuatl peoples.
42. Owen 21:04, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
43. Occamserasure 23:38, 4 August 2008 (UTC) : kinship terminologies
44. Pariah 05:29, 14 January 2008 (UTC), hunter-gatherer social relations, religion & spirituality
45. Petermwhalley 1:06, 1 December 2007 (UTC)
46. Rex 08:19, 12 September 2006 (UTC) (busy but glad to hover helpfully in the background).
47. Robotforaday 11:36, 25 January 2007 (UTC), main areas of interest Anthropology of Religion and the Anthropology of Europe
48. Rosiestep (talk) 15:35, 21 September 2008 (UTC) Cultural anthropology
49. Smilo Don 21:42, 7 September 2007 (UTC) : Cultural anthropology
50. Stilgar135 23:17, 8 November 2006 (UTC) especially interested in theory
51. SvenHelsing 2:54, 7 April 2008: cultural anthropology, Africa, Mesoamerica and the American Southwest
52. Tainter 21:27, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
53. Ungovernable Force^{The Wiki Kitchen!} 20:37, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
54. TBCTaLk?!? 20:43, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
55. Tyciol (talk) 14:54, 15 June 2008 (UTC)
56. Woland37 Any and all anthropology/archaeology related topics
57. Zahir Mgeni 09:13, 16 January 2007 (UTC): ethnography, ethnobiology, anthropological linguistics, Africa
58. Zenauberon 03:19, 8 June 2007 (UTC)
59. Jake200493: General interest in physical and forensic anthropology
60. Par4d0x (talk) 21:07 January 30th 2009: General interest in anthropology.
61. Enigmaticjew - I am interested mostly in Biblical archaeology but I also have an interest in U.S., Scottish, Irish, and Welsh archaeology.
62. Millennium Twain (talk) 12:15, 16 March 2009 (UTC) : cultural anthropology
63. Samuel.Lindskog (talk) 11:15, 12 August 2009 (UTC): Psychological Archaeology.
64. Whoosit (talk) 17:12, 20 August 2009 (UTC): Medical Anthropology
65. Khin2718 (talk) 02:50, 17 December 2009 (UTC) just joined to assess cousin marriage since it wasn't getting assessed