Wikipedia:WikiProject Anthropology

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

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

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.

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

Articles

Index · Statistics · Log

Anthropology articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA		1		4		1	6
GA	5	12	25	36		3	81
B	11	75	92	137		65	380
C	29	106	185	489		279	1,088
Start	8	87	205	980		604	1,884
Stub	1	8	54	492		292	847
List	2	3	6	54		19	84
Category					1,319		1,319
Disambig		1		1	28		30
File					52		52
Portal				1			1
Project					13		13
Template			1		94		95
NA		5	15	40	135		195
Other		1		1	45		47
Assessed	56	299	583	2,235	1,686	1,263	6,122
Unassessed						1	1
Total	56	299	583	2,235	1,686	1,264	6,123
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 20,156			Ω = 4.70

Featured content

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

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.

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.

Peer review

Assessment

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.

• 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 - essays by Mary Douglas
• Natural Symbols - most controversial of Mary Douglas's books
• Purity and Danger - "break-out" book by Mary Douglas
• 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
• Evolutionary psychology - a number of anthropologists (e.g. Jonathan Marks, Timothy Ingold) have raised questions about this emerging discipline. One conributor 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.

Article alerts

Articles for deletion

• 25 Apr 2024 – Southern Caribbean (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Nederlandse Leeuw (t · c); see discussion (4 participants)
• 16 Apr 2024 – Buffer theory (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Shadow311 (t · c); see discussion (3 participants; relisted)

Proposed deletions

• 19 Apr 2024 – Southern Caribbean (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Nederlandse Leeuw (t · c) was deproded by Kvng (t · c) on 25 Apr 2024

Good article nominees

• 05 Mar 2024 – Waste Siege (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Ezlev (t · c); start discussion

Peer reviews

• 11 Apr 2024 – Eclipses in mythology and culture (talk · edit · hist) has been put up for PR by Dan Leonard (t · c); see discussion

Articles to be merged

• 15 Apr 2024 – Gibraltar 2 (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Neanderthals in Gibraltar by Amerias (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
• 13 Sep 2023 – Institutional racism (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Shoreranger (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

• 21 Apr 2024 – Draft:Linguistic monogenesis and polygenesis (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Pcg111 (t · c)
• 19 Mar 2024 – Draft:Andrea Aranow (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by BryanMi23 (t · c)
• 21 Feb 2024 – Draft:George J. Gmelch (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by BaseballAnn (t · c)
• 14 Feb 2024 – Draft:Christopher Witmore (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by 129.118.254.203 (t · c)
• 17 Aug 2023 – Draft:Social data science (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Karohusb (t · c)

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

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

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• Main Topic template - sidebar :

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• Collaboration of the month - talkpage banner:

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• Userbox:

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Categories

Anthropology

Anthropology by decade

Anthropologists

Archaeology

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Biological anthropology

Anthropological categories of peoples

Cultural anthropology

Economic anthropology

Ethnobiology

Ethnography

Anthropology documentary films

Forensic facial reconstruction

Honours systems

Human geography

Human sex ratio

Human zoos

Kinship and descent

Linguistics

Anthropological linguistics

Anthropology literature

Matriarchy

Medical anthropology

Anthropology organizations

Paleoanthropology

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Personal life

Philosophical anthropology

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Psychological anthropology

Sexual orientation and science

Social anthropology

Social classes

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Anthropological theories

Anthropology timelines

Urban anthropology

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Anthropology writers

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Members

Please feel free to add your name in here.

Resources

A list of relevant magazines and journals can be found at Wikipedia:WikiProject Anthropology/Periodicals.

Tools

Main tool page: toolserver.org

• Reflinks - Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. to bare references
• Checklinks - Edit and repair external links
• Dab solver - Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
• Peer reviewer - Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles.

External watchlist

• Wikiproject Watchlist - WikiProject Anthropology