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language materials, have been scanned and are available online for research through SOVA, the Smithsonian's archival catalog. In 2014, the NAA received a grant for preservation and digitization of sound recordings of endangered languages.
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data, photographs, sound recordings and other media created by American anthropologists. The collection includes fieldnotes, journals, manuscripts, correspondence, photographs, maps, sound recordings. Spanning over 150 years of
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to provide a repository for scholars without a home institution (or whose home institution had no archives), in order to promote the preservation of the anthropological record.
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National Anthropological Archives and Human Studies Film Archives on the Anthropology Collections and Archives page at the National Museum of Natural History
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and other anthropologists who conduct research around the world. The establishment of the NAA was supported by grants from the
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National Anthropological Archives Collections on Smithsonian's Collections Search Center
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Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution
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National Anthropological Archives Collections on Smithsonian's Online Virtual Archives
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The NAA is the only archival repository in the United States dedicated to preserving
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The National Anthropological Archives (NAA) is the successor to the archives of the
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Marsh, Diana E.; Leopold, Robert; Crowe, Katherine; Madison, Katherine S. (2020).
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Preserving the Anthropological Record: The National Anthropological Archives
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Ruwell, Mary Elizabeth (1995). Silverman, Sydel and Nancy J. Parezo (ed.).
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Guide to the National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
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Directors of the National Anthropological Archives have included:
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and the world's peoples and cultures, and is used in indigenous
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Suitland
Maryland
Smithsonian Institution
www.si.edu/siasc/naa
Anthropology of art
media
music
dance
film

Color symbolism
Visual culture
Body culture
Material culture
New media
Art of the Americas
Indigenous Australian art
Oceanic art
Nanook of the North
The Ax Fight
Nǃai, the Story of a ǃKung Woman
Incidents of Travel in Chichen Itza
The Doon School Quintet
National Anthropological Archives
Centro Cultural Mexiquense
Museum of Anthropology at UBC
Museum of Anthropology, Cambridge
Museum of Indian Arts and Culture
Robert Hull Fleming Museum
List of museums

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