Anthropology

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Subject Directories

• Anthropology Resources on the Internet
• Native Web > Resources

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Internet Sites

• Anthropology Biography Web
• Becoming Human
• National Anthropological Archives
• Palomar College > Anthropology Tutorials
• Resources for Indigenous Cultures Around the World

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Professional Associations

• American Anthropological Association 
• European Association Association of Social Anthropologists  
• Society for the Anthropology of Europe - Unit of the American Anthropological Association  

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Online Journals

• Anthropology Matters Journal
• Folklore (Tartu) 
• Kaciki: Journal of Caribbean Amerindian History and Anthropology
• Michigan Discussions in Anthropology 
• Studies of Tribes and Tribals 
• American Anthropologist (1888-2002) - Off-campus users login with OCC ID & password
• American Ethnologist (1974-2002) - Off-campus users login with OCC ID & password
• Anthropology Today (1996-one year ago)- Off-campus users login with OCC ID & password
• Current Anthropology (1959-1999) - Off-campus users login with OCC ID & password
• Medical Anthropology Quarterly (1983-2002) - Off-campus users login with OCC ID & password

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Articles: Indexes and Full Text

• Academic Search Elite (EBSCOhost) 1980s - present. Full-text, abstracts, or indexing for mostly scholarly periodicals.  This multi-disciplinary database covers virtually every area of academic study.
• JSTOR - The Scholarly Journal Archive Digital archive of full-text scholarly journals. Does not include full-text of current issues (most titles withhold full-text for five years or more).
• General OneFile (InfoTrac) 1980 - present.  Comprehensive database with many full-text articles on a wide range of topics, many of general interest.  Includes newspaper indexing and audio files.
• WilsonSelectPlus (FirstSearch) 1994 - present.  All articles have full-text.  Includes U.S. and international professional publications, academic journals, and trade magazines on a wide variety of subjects.

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Selected Ebooks

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• Beck, Charlotte.  Models for the Millennium: Great Basin Anthropology Today. Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, 1999. 
• Encyclopedia of Social and Cultural Anthropology.  eds. Alan J. Barnard and Jonathan Spencer. N.Y.: Routledge, 1998. 
• Jacoby, JoAnne.  Cultural Anthropology: A Guide to Reference and Information Sources. Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited, 2007.

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Print Sources

• To find print (and some non-print) materials in OCC Libraries, search the Library Catalog. Some sample Library of Congress Subject Headings searches are:
  • Anthropology
  • Ethnology
  • Human Evolution
  • Physical Anthropology

• Selected Reference Books
  • Cambridge Encyclopedia of Human Evolution.  eds. Steve Jones, Robert D. Martin, and David R. Pilbeam.  N.Y.: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
         HL Reference  GN 281 C345 1994
  • Companion Encyclopedia of Anthropology: Humanity, Culture, and Social Life. ed. Tim Ingold.  N.Y.:  Routledge, 1994.
         RO Reference  GN 25 C65 1994
  • Encyclopedia of Anthropology. ed. James H. Brix. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2006.
         AH Reference  GN 11 .E63 2006
  • History of Physical Anthropology. ed. Frank Spencer.  N.Y. : Garland, 1997.
         OR Reference  GN 50.3 .H57 1997

• Browsing Call Numbers (in Library of Congress Classification)
  • GN  Anthropology (General)
  • GN51-211  Physical Anthropology
  • GN233-279  Physiological and Psychological Anthropology
  • GN307-686  Ethnology and Ethnography

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This page is maintained by Mary Ann Sheblé and was last updated on 05/24/2010.