New! Widening the Range of our Digital Resources: Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland archive
We are pleased to announce the recent addition of to our digital collections.
This new digital collection compiled from the institute鈥檚 comprehensive archives provides access to more than 150 years of materials from the world鈥檚 longest-established anthropological association. It contains nearly one million unique items, including research data, scholarly papers, field notes, drawings, photographs, and a substantial body of previously uncatalogued material. A major highlight is its library of approximately 150,000 ethnographic images dating back to the 1860s, created by anthropologists, ethnologists, and early ethnographic photographers.
The archive constitutes a major resource for scholars working across anthropology, history, colonial and postcolonial studies, visual studies, and related fields. The diversity of regions, topics, and disciplinary approaches represented in the archive also supports comparative learning and encourage critical reflection on the discipline鈥檚 entanglements with empire, representation, and cross-cultural interpretation. Access via or our .