| Introduction
The Ur-List: Web Resources for Visual Anthropology facilitates web searches by cross-indexing three hundred and seventy-five anthropological sites according to the categories of information they contain. The Ur-List's cross-index is more accurate than most Web-resource guides which typically reduce a site's multifaceted content to only one category. In the Ur-List, sites may be accessed according to the twenty-two subject-categories listed above. Multifaceted sites are cross-referenced under all appropriate categories. A mouse-click selection of any of the subject-categories gives access to two kinds of Web resources. The first is dedicated exclusively to the subject that was selected. For example, Wendy Vissar's dark visual ethnography of rural Albania, Lekso's Codebox, is listed only once under the "Dedicated Sites" heading of "Visual Ethnographies" (Category 5). The second kind of resources accessed are listed under multiple Ur-List categories. Allen H. Lutin's Anthropology Resources on the Internet, for example, is listed under the "Multifaceted Sites" heading of "Visual Ethnographies" (Category 5) because it too references visual work. But Lutin's Resources is also included under half a dozen other categories as well, since it provides links to Departments and Organizations (1), Electronic Journals (16) and many other anthropological resources. Users must search through multifaceted sites to find references to the specific category of information they want. Seventy-five new Web resources
have been added to the Ur-List since the last update in October.
New listings are identified with the The current update was tirelessly researched by Cristina Balma-Tivola. It was begun and is maintained by Peter Biella (San Francisco State University). The Ur-List is stored on the server of the Center for Visual Anthropology at the University of Southern California. Original design and programming were created by Iván Drufovka, Bilingual Media , Philadelphia, PA. Corrections and additions are always welcome. Please submit them to Peter Biella . Update: September 29, 2001 |
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