Research by Subject: Anthropology
ENCYCLOPEDIAS, HANDBOOKS, DICTIONARIES
Berg Fashion Library 
Provides integrated text and image content on world dress and fashion throughout history. Offers fully cross-searchable access to an expanding range of content collections, including the Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion, e-books, e-journals, museum directory, reference works, images, and more. Browsable by time period (1600 to date) and by place.
Companion Encyclopedia of Anthropology
"Provides a comprehensive survey of contemporary thinking in biological, social and cultural anthropology and establishes the interconnections between these three fields." Contains cross-references and bibliographies.
Countries and Their Cultures
Call Number: REF GN307 .C68 2001
Includes 225 countries, with cultural summaries, maps and photographs. Contains demographic, historical, social, economic, political, and religious information. 4 vols with bibliographies and index.
Dictionary of Anthropology
"A short accessible reference guide that provides clear and concise statements laying out the important issues, significant concepts, methodologies, and theories in anthropology along with a guide to the key literature on these topics." NOTE: Individual users must create an account to access this e-book.
Dictionary of Concepts in Cultural Anthropology
Call Number: REF GN307 .W56 1991
"Eighty entries review the key concepts--culture, race, nature, symbolism, adaptation, the primitive, etc.--that have established the fundamental problems and issues, guided research, and served as the focus for debate in key areas of the discipline. The entries which range from 2,000 to 6,000 words in length, are both thorough in treatment and contemporary in relevance...Each entry contains an annotated bibliography and a guide to additional reading on the subject."
Encyclopedia of Cultural Anthropology
Call Number: REF GN307 .E52 1996
Covers many approaches, methods, concepts, and topics central to cultural anthropology both past and present, and includes some coverage of linguistics, biological anthropology, and archaeology. 340 articles, 4 vols. Includes bibliographies and index.
Encyclopedia of Human Evolution and Prehistory
Call Number: REF GN281 .E53 2000
Contains nearly 800 topical headings such as evolutionary biology, morphology, primate taxa, paleontology, and stratigraphy. Includes bibliographies; cross-referenced and indexed.
Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender
"The central aim of this encyclopedia is to give the reader a comparative perspective on issues involving conceptions of gender, gender differences, gender roles, relationships between the genders, and sexuality."
Native America in the Twentieth Century : an Encyclopedia
Call Number: REF E76.2 .N36 1994
"Articles on present-day tribal groups comprise more than half of the coverage. They range from essays on the Navajo, Lakota, Cherokee, and other large tribes to shorter entries on such lesser-known groups as the Hoh, Paugusett, and Tunica-Biloxi. The authors highlight issues that each group has faced in the past and faces today, providing population figures, and information on tribal economies, religion, and culture. The Encyclopedia fills a major gap in tribal-specific information on 20th-century Native Americans."
21st Century Anthropology
21st Century Anthropology: A Reference Handbook attests to the many research topics being investigated by current anthropologists and related scholars in science and philosophy.
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AnthroSource
Developed by the American Anthropological Association (AAA), AnthroSource brings 100 years of anthropological material online to scholars and the public, with current issues for 11 of the AAA's most critical peer-reviewed publications including American Anthropologist, American Ethnologist, and Cultural Anthropology.
Anthropological Literature
Indexes journal articles and essays in the fields of anthropology and archaeology. International coverage. Based on the collections of Harvard's Tozzer Library; 1984 - present.
JSTOR
Full text backfiles of over 1,200 core scholarly journals in humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Includes over 60 current titles, including all University of Chicago Press journals. For all other titles, JSTOR does not contain the most recent 1-7 years of content. Many of these titles are continued in Project Muse or in the Library's print and/or electronic subscriptions. Use the yellow arrow, then the ArticleLinker button to link to content on an external site or check Journal Finder for complete holdings information.
ATLA Religion Database
Indexes scholarship of religion, including Biblical studies, world religions, Church history, and religious perspectives on social issues. From the American Theological Association; 1949 - present.
Ethnic NewsWatch
Full text database of articles from newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press; 1990 - present.
HLAS Online (Handbook of Latin American Studies) 
Indexes and annotates scholarship on Latin America, including selected books and book chapters, journal articles, conference papers, and electronic resources. From the Library of Congress; 1935 - present.
LexisNexis Academic
Indexes and abstracts U.S. and foreign newspapers, journals, transcripts, federal and state case law, law reviews, state and country profiles, company information and more. Many documents are in full text; dates of coverage vary.
Project Muse
Full text collection of over 500 scholarly journals from the Johns Hopkins University Press and other university presses. Earlier years may be in JSTOR. Check Journal Finder for complete holdings information.
ScienceDirect
Full text of over 2,100 Elsevier journals and 10 encyclopedias in the sciences and social sciences. Coverage for most titles is 1993 - or 1995 - present.
Scopus
Indexes and abstracts scientific, technical, medical and social sciences literature and web resources. Includes citation tracking and links to full text articles. Early 1900's - present for some abstracts; 1996 - present for citation tracking.
Sociological Abstracts
Indexes journals, dissertations, conference papers, and selected books in sociology and related disciplines. A ProQuest database; 1952 - present.
Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson)
Indexes articles and book reviews in some of the key international English language journals in the social sciences, for example: anthropology, area studies, economics, political science, psychology, sociology; includes over 320 full text journals; 1984 - present.
Annual Review of Anthropology, 1972-2007 (JSTOR)
"The Annual Review of Anthropology, in publication since 1972, covers significant developments in the subfields of Anthropology, including Archaeology, Biological Anthropology, Linguistics and Communicative Practices, Regional Studies and International Anthropology, and Sociocultural Anthropology. The journal is essential reading for anthropologists, ethnologists, archaeologists, linguists, and scientists in related fields."
Annual Review of Anthropology, 1996- present (AR)
"The Annual Review of Anthropology, in publication since 1972, covers significant developments in the subfields of Anthropology, including Archaeology, Biological Anthropology, Linguistics and Communicative Practices, Regional Studies and International Anthropology, and Sociocultural Anthropology. The journal is essential reading for anthropologists, ethnologists, archaeologists, linguists, and scientists in related fields."
National Anthropological Archives & Human Studies Film Archives
Part of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History. "The National Anthropological Archives and Human Studies Film Archives collect and preserve historical and contemporary anthropological materials that document the world's cultures and the history of anthropology. Their collections represent the four fields of anthropology...and include fieldnotes, journals, manuscripts, correspondence, photographs, maps, sound recordings, film and video created by Smithsonian anthropologists and other preeminent scholars."
Association of Religion Data Archives
ARDA allows you to interactively explore data on American and international religion using online features for generating national profiles, GIS maps, church membership overviews, denominational heritage trees, tables, charts, and other reports.
United Nations
Data, documents, committee reports, and informational essays on international law, peace and security, humanitarian crises, development, and issues of worldwide concern. Includes World Economic and Social Surveys and World Economic Situation and Prospects and other official UN publications.
U.S. Department of State Country Reports on Human Rights Practices
Submitted annually by the U.S. Department of State to the U.S. Congress, "a full and complete report regarding the status of internationally recognized human rights...The reports cover internationally recognized individual, civil, political, and worker rights, as set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights."
World Health Organization
"WHO is the directing and coordinating authority for health within the United Nations system. It is responsible for providing leadership on global health matters, shaping the health research agenda, setting norms and standards, articulating evidence-based policy options, providing technical support to countries and monitoring and assessing health trends." Includes data and reports on matters of world health, including The World Health Report.
Ethnographic Video Online
Covers a wide range of themes, including: language and culture, body language, food and foraging, economic systems, social stratification and status, political organizations, religion and magic, music and the arts, culture and personality, and sex, gender, and family roles.
AAA Style Guide
"AAA uses The Chicago Manual of Style (15th edition, 2003) and Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary (11th edition, 2006). This guide is an outline of style rules basic to our journal editing. Where no rule is present in this guide, follow Chicago."
