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.
Guidelines
editFor best practices in creating and editing articles, see the Wikipedia:Manual of Style.
Overlap with other projects
editSince 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.
Open tasks
editThis 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
requested articles
editArticles
editAnthropology articles by quality and importance | |||||||
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Quality | Importance | ||||||
Top | High | Mid | Low | NA | ??? | Total | |
FA | 1 | 4 | 1 | 6 | |||
GA | 5 | 12 | 25 | 37 | 3 | 82 | |
B | 11 | 75 | 92 | 139 | 71 | 388 | |
C | 29 | 106 | 188 | 499 | 287 | 1,109 | |
Start | 8 | 87 | 204 | 987 | 610 | 1,896 | |
Stub | 1 | 8 | 53 | 491 | 289 | 842 | |
List | 2 | 3 | 6 | 56 | 18 | 85 | |
Category | 1,332 | 1,332 | |||||
Disambig | 1 | 1 | 28 | 30 | |||
File | 52 | 52 | |||||
Portal | 1 | 1 | |||||
Project | 13 | 13 | |||||
Template | 1 | 95 | 96 | ||||
NA | 5 | 16 | 40 | 135 | 196 | ||
Other | 1 | 1 | 32 | 34 | |||
Assessed | 56 | 299 | 585 | 2,256 | 1,687 | 1,279 | 6,162 |
Total | 56 | 299 | 585 | 2,256 | 1,687 | 1,279 | 6,162 |
WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 20,296 | Ω = 4.69 |
Featured content
editFeatured articles
edit- 2012 phenomenon
- Belarusian Republican Youth Union
- Female genital mutilation
- Ketuanan Melayu
- Taiwanese aborigines
- Tamil people
- Toraja
Candidates
editCollaboration and review
edit- 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.
- Another Proposal: Tribalism This is an undeveloped entry.
- Another Proposal: Hunter-gatherer This is a neglected article. It is currently of quite poor (C) quality.
New articles
editPlease 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.
- Subneolithic - Period, culture or ethnic group which practiced hunting, gathering and fishing whilst incorporating elements of Neolithic culture such as pottery.
- INAPL - notable Argentine anthropological institution
- Carlos J. Gradin - Argentine archaeologist
- hui_pan-nationalism - ethnic group
- David J. Meltzer - American archaeologist
- David MacDougall - visual anthropologist, ethnographic filmmaker
- Digital dependencies and global mental health - exploring the cultural and anthropological perspective of the global mental health crisis
- Zoe Todd - Canadian anthropologist
- Engis 2 - first ever found Neanderthal fossil
- Sandra Morgen - Feminist Anthropologist
- Lambda Alpha - National collegiate honors society for anthropology in the US.
- The Savage Mind - early structural anthropology from Claude Lévi-Strauss
- We Have Never Been Modern - seminal work by Bruno Latour
- The Lele of the Kasai - field-report on the Lele people by Mary Douglas
- L'Homme - French journal
- C. W. M. Hart - ?Australian anthropologist
- Shakir Mustafa Salim - Iraqi anthropologist
- Lorna Marshall - American ethnographer of the !Kung people
- Julius Alfred Roth - stub on American sociologist of medicine
- James C. Faris - American anthropologist; a lot more could be added to this, I'm sure.
- Rules and Meanings - Penguin anthology compiled by Mary Douglas
- Luc de Heusch - Belgian anthropologist and film-maker (much more could be added)
- Risk and Blame - es of anthropologists (e.g. Jonathan Marks, Timothy Ingold) have raised questions about this emerging discipline. One contributor to the article, Leadwind, frequently bings up anthropologists Boas, Mead and Gould as proponents of the kind of pseudoscience Evolutionary Psychology replaces. There are many threads on the talk page in which contributors discuss topics of anthropological research (from human evolution to gender differences or a genetic propensity to become a warrior) to which I imagine many members of this project could constructively contribute.
- Taboo food and drink (see [1])
Article alerts
editDid you know
- 05 Jun 2024 – Bad Dürrenberg burial (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Merytat3n (t · c); see discussion
Articles for deletion
- 20 Jun 2024 – Anastasia Servan-Schreiber (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Joe Roe (t · c) was closed as delete by Explicit (t · c) on 27 Jun 2024; see discussion (5 participants)
- 13 Jun 2024 – Village communities (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Crunchydillpickle (t · c) was closed as delete by Doczilla (t · c) on 28 Jun 2024; see discussion (8 participants; relisted)
Redirects for discussion
- 16 Jun 2024 – Men in the Philippines (talk · edit · hist) →Filipinos RfDed by Sanglahi86 (t · c) was closed; see discussion
Good article nominees
- 12 Jun 2024 – Sikidy (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Zanahary (t · c); start discussion
- 02 Jun 2024 – Human history (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Phlsph7 (t · c); see discussion
- 01 Jun 2024 – The arts (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by 48JCL (t · c); start discussion
- 05 Mar 2024 – Waste Siege (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Ezlev (t · c); start discussion
Requested moves
- 17 Jun 2024 – Atakapa (talk · edit · hist) move request to Atakapa-Ishak by 225JR (t · c) was not moved; see discussion
Articles to be merged
- 05 Jun 2024 – Ethnocide (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Cultural genocide by Chrisahn (t · c); see discussion
- 25 Feb 2024 – Patriarchy in China (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Gender inequality in China by Sdkb (t · c); see discussion
Articles to be split
- 23 Sep 2023 – Witchcraft (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Skyerise (t · c); see discussion
- 04 Feb 2022 – Internet culture (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Duckmather (t · c); see discussion
Articles for creation
- 22 May 2024 – Draft:Niko Besnier (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Anthrolytics (t · c)
- 19 Mar 2024 – Draft:Andrea Aranow (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by BryanMi23 (t · c)
- 24 Jun 2024 – Draft:Reincarnisation (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by Boxo16 (t · c) was declined by Curb Safe Charmer (t · c) on 24 Jun 2024
The Wikipedia entry on Tribalism needs some serious work. Can someone look into this? There are no citations or sources within the entry. I find this topic to be a significant subject for the Anthropology WikiProject. Excuse me if my comment is in the wrong section, but I wanted to inform your group.
Templates
edit- Talkpage banner, for all articles which fall within the scope of this project:
{{WikiProject Anthropology|class=|importance=}}
- Main Topic template - sidebar :
{{Anthropology}}
- Userbox:
{{User WPAnthro}}
Categories
editParticipants
editPlease feel free to add your name to our project's Participants page.
Resources
editA list of relevant magazines and journals can be found at Wikipedia:WikiProject Anthropology/Periodicals.