Anthropology: Home
Getting Started - Best Bets
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AnthroSourceAnthroSource is an up-to-date, searchable collection of journals published by the American Anthropological Association. Good for getting starting, not comprehensive.
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eHRAF World Cultures This link opens in a new windowOxford campus users only. eHRAF of Ethnography contains mostly primary source materials (mainly published books and articles), and includes some unpublished manuscripts and dissertations on selected cultures or societies representing all major regions of the world. This collection does not include all of the culture groups from the original HRAF files so be sure to consult the Encyclopedia of World Cultures if a culture group is not included in this collection.
Need help? See the "How to Search JSTOR" guide.
JSTOR holds a deep archive of older anthropology journal articles.
Academic Search Complete is a broad journal database that will help you find more multidisciplinary articles.
Subfield Quick Links
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eHRAF World CulturesContains ethnographic collections covering all aspects of cultural and social life.
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Encyclopedia of World CulturesThis reference set lists and describes more than 1,500 global cultures. Based on research of social scientists, it is the source for historical, social, political, economic, linguistic, religious, and other information on virtually every existing culture.
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Encyclopedia of World Cultures SupplementThis volume, with one hundred new articles, supplements the award-winning 10-volume Encyclopedia of World Cultures
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Daily Life Through HistoryTexts explore the daily life of world cultures and countries, covering prehistory through today.
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Ethnic News WatchInterdisciplinary, bilingual (English and Spanish) and comprehensive full text database of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press.
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International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral SciencesThis encyclopedia covers the disciplines of anthropology, archaeology, environmental/ecological sciences, evolutionary sciences, genetics, gender studies, geography, and much more.
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Art and Archaeology Technical AbstractsAATA Online is a comprehensive database of over 100,000 abstracts of international literature related to the preservation and conservation of material cultural heritage.
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Bibliografía MesoamericanaA comprehensive and continually updated bibliographic dataset of the published literature pertaining to the anthropology of Mesoamerica. Content includes archaeology, ethnography, ethnohistory, art history, linguistics, physical anthropology, and other related disciplines.
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National Archeological DatabaseUS archaeology sites collection from the Digital Archaeological Record (tDAR), an international digital repository for the digital records of archaeological investigations.
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Web of Science (Core Collection)Searches science and social science journals across multiple disciplines. Includes Social Sciences Citation Index (1900-present).
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eLS: Citable Reviews in the Life Sciences5,000 specially commissioned, peer-reviewed and citable articles in the life sciences.
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eSkeletonsAn interactive environment in which to examine and learn about skeletal anatomy of primates
Simple Timeline of Humanity
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Timeline of the Human Condition - Milestones in Evolution and HistoryTimeline of human evolution and cultural and scientific milestones from the emergence of life on earth to present day. Embedded links go directly to scholarly articles.
Interdisciplinary Guides
Depending on your research interests, there are several other subject guides you may want to reference:
- Area Studies
- Biology
- Classics
- Comparative Religion
- Economics
- Environmental Science
- Forensic Science
- Health Studies
- Geography
- Global & Intercultural Studies
- Linguistics
- Music
