Smith, Robin 1998 Citing Sources in Anthropology Papers. There are several reasons for this. Second, the accuracy with which you quote me or another professor is dependent on how good your notes are. These will be around long after the individual who wrote them moves on to the Big Archive in the Sky. This is a serious problem with the World Wide Web.
Anthropologists DO cite informants.
They know what they are talking about and presumably would give substantially the same answer if consulted again by a reasonably competent fieldworker. Be sure you have their permission to quote them, and use a psuedonym if necessary to protect their privacy. This is a much better source of definitions and supplementary material than an encyclopedia or dictionary because he is an anthropologist and he uses the cultural materialist model. If you can't establish that the website author is an anthropologist or a member of the culture you're interested in, it's probably not an appropriate source to use. Dettwyler gives special attention to the relationship between biology and culture, to the ethical and personal conflicts faced by the applied medical anthropologist, to people's mental and behavioral choices in balancing production and reproduction.