Wikipedia:WikiProject Anthropology

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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.

1 Guidelines
2 Overlap with other projects
3 Open tasks
4 Members
5 Articles
6 Templates
7 Categories
8 Resources
- 8.1 Related projects

[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):

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] Members

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

Ungovernable Force^{The Wiki Kitchen!} 20:37, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

Owen 21:04, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

Tainter 21:27, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

Carptrash 04:36, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

Doug

FrancisTyers ·

TBCTaLk?!? 20:43, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
íslenskur fellibylur #12 _(samtal) 20:57, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
--Birdmessenger 17:04, 6 September 2006 (UTC) (as time permits)

Rex 08:19, 12 September 2006 (UTC) (busy but glad to hover helpfully in the background).

Amerique 11:04, 24 September 2006 (UTC) Interested in language and culture, Americanist issues.
Chris4682
Novinha, varied interest, most expertise in archaeology of sub-saharan africa and mesoamerica, and cultural anthropology of modern-day maya and nahuatl peoples.

Stilgar135 23:17, 8 November 2006 (UTC) especially interested in theory

Jseipel 01:45, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

Zahir Mgeni 09:13, 16 January 2007 (UTC): ethnography, ethnobiology, anthropological linguistics, Africa
Mike Fischer most

Robotforaday 11:36, 25 January 2007 (UTC), main areas of interest Anthropology of Religion and the Anthropology of Europe

Duncan Drury - interested in National Identity, theories of power in Anthropology and African Anthropology

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)

[edit] Articles

[edit] Featured content

[edit] Featured articles

[edit] Candidates

[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.

Hofmeyr Skull

[edit] Collaboration and review

Collaboration of the week

As the project currently doesn't have much momentum, I thought it was better to establish a Collaboration of the Month. The current article is Marvin Harris.

Peer review

Assessment

[edit] Templates

{{WPAnthro}} can be placed on the talk pages of all articles which fall within the scope of this project.
{{User WPAnthro}} - can be added to your collection of userboxes when you join this project.
{{AnthropologyCOTM}} - for discussions about the Collaboration of the month.
{{Current-ANTHCOTM}} - to be placed on the current Collaboration of the month.