Anthropology (Subject Guides)
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Databases
Anthropological Index Online
The Anthropological Index to Current Periodicals in the Museum of Mankind Library (incorporating the former Royal Anthropological Institute library).
Anthropological Literature
Anthropological Literature indexes articles and essays on anthropology and archaeology and includes art history, demography, economics, psychology, and religious studies. Updated quarterly, Anthropological Literature includes articles two or more pages long in works published in English and other European languages from the late 19th century to the present.
eHRAF World Cultures (Full Text)
The eHRAF World Cultures is a cross-cultural database that contains information on all aspects of cultural and social life. The annually-growing eHRAF database is unique in that the information is organized by cultures and ethnic groups and the full-text sources are subject-indexed at the paragraph level.
Directory of Open Access Journals (Full Text)
DOAJ provides access to 43 anthropology journals, 16 archaeology journals, 11 ethnology journals, 68 linguistics journals, 42 religion journals, and 59 sociology journals.
Social Sciences Citation Index
The Social Sciences Citation Index provide access to current and retrospective bibliographic information, author abstracts, and cited references found in over 1,700 of the world's leading scholarly social sciences journals covering more than 50 disciplines. They also cover individually selected, relevant items from approximately 3,300 of the world's leading science and technology journals. Please log out when you are finished.
JSTOR (Full Text)
A collection of full-text scholarly journals in the fields of history, political science, and population studies. Includes 7 anthropology journals, 4 archaeology journals, and 23 sociology journals. Coverage starts with the first issue of each journal through the early 1990's.
Project Muse(Full Text)
Searchable access to scholarly journals in the arts and humanities, social sciences, and mathematics.
ATLA Religion Database With ATLASerials (Full Text)
A collection of major religion and theology journals selected by some of the major religion scholars in the United States. Journals representing all major religious faiths, major denominations, and language groups are included. Information dates as far back as 1949, and coverage continues through the present.
Sociological Abstracts
Over 350 English-language journals in sociology, social work, and other social sciences. From 1963.
Academic Search Premier (Full Text)
The world’s largest academic multi-disciplinary database providing full text for nearly 4,700 publications, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed journals. Coverage spans virtually every area of academic study and offers information dating as far back as 1975. This database is updated daily.
Alternative Press Index
Indexes journals covering cultural, economic, political & social change. Coverage is from 1991 to the present.
Academic OneFile (Full Text) 
A source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. With extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects, OneFile is both authoritative and comprehensive. With millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text with no restrictions, researchers are able to find accurate information quickly. Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995. Updated daily.
Periodicals Archives Online (formerly Periodicals Contents Index - Full Text) (Full Text)
Index to articles from 1802 to 1995 in the humanities and social sciences. Includes full-text to approximately 140 journals.
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Print and Electronic Resources
Daily Life Through History
Daily Life Through History gives a detailed portrayal of what life was like for ordinary people in different cultures throughout history. At the heart of this database are the 27 volumes of the Daily Life Through History series from Greenwood Press and the six volume Greenwood Encyclopedia of Daily Life.
Also included in this online database are related books from Praeger Press, related reference works from Greenwood Press, and related primary source documents.
Gale Virtual Reference Library(Full Text)
Includes searchable full-text online versions of Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America, Encyclopedia of Anthropology and Countries and Their Cultures.
Abstracts in Anthropology
REF GN1 A15 1970-1999
International Bibliography of Social and Cultural Anthropology
REF GN1 I15 1955-1997
International Dictionary of Anthropologists
REF GN20 I5 1991
History of Physical Anthropology:
An Encyclopedia
REF GN50.3 .H57 1997
The Dictionary of Anthropology
REF GN307 .D485 1997
Encyclopedia of Cultural Anthropology
REF GN307 E52 1996
Worldmark Encyclopedia of Cultures
and Daily Life
REF GN333 .W67 1998
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Internet Resources
Ancient Mesoamerican civilizations
The site explores
the sights and sounds of Mesoamerica and its rich archaeology and history. Among the topics the author examines in this extensive study
of Aztec, Maya, Mixtec, and Zapotec cultures are history, archaeology, political organization, mathematics, writing systems, religion, and legends.
Anthropology
- WWW Virtual Library
Site links other social sciences resource lists.
EINET
Anthropology Page
Searchable list of anthropological links.
Experience-rich anthropology
This Website resurrects the very best aspects of the case study tradition in anthropology, combining a wide
variety of problems, places, evidence, and reasoning processes.
National archeological database
This is an online source of information on public archaeology and national legislation affecting cultural resource management.
Public
Anthropology Journal Archive
You can use the archive to search for any author, name,
subject, or cultural group written about in the in the
American Athropologist from 1888 through 2000 and can
get a summary of what was said by whom.
Resources in ethnographic studies: a collection of resources in anthropology,
ethnomusicology, folklore, and folklife.
This impressive Library of Congress resource is valuable to all levels of users, particularly compelling
for scholars in anthropology, ethnomusicology, and folklife.
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