BAE

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To be created/developped and updated The Bureau of American Ethnology, usually referred to as the BAE, was a government-sponsored organization that coordinated and reported anthropologic research in the Americas. Its most notable publications, Annual Reports and Bulletins, have been harvested from scans available at gallica.bnf.fr and form a large group of projects in various stages at DP-Int (and perhaps someday at DPC).

The papers in these bulletins and reports were written by staff members at the BAE, including many early field anthropologists, as well as other collaborators supported by the BAE. Papers were written about physical findings, social and cultural traditions, and linguistic families, among other things.

The BAE projects in progress at DP-Int tend to be a bit challenging, as they are often long, heavily footnoted and indexed, and contain many diacritical marks that are not part of the standard Latin-1 character set used at DP-Int, necessitating the use of not only the entire diacritical markup explained in the DP-Int Proofreading Guidelines, but an extended set of markup. There are also some proofing and formatting conventions that apply to all BAE projects but which are not standard at DP-Int; for instance, indexes in BAE projects are done differently than those in most DP-Int projects. See individual Project Comments and the BAE UberProject thread for more information.

An alternate source of page scans is 1st-hand-history. DP-Int also has permission from the owner of that site to use any scans of color plates there. More recently, The Internet Archive has been acquiring scans. Both sources have color and grayscale jpg's. Eventually, all image scans will be incorporated into existing project files.