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Anthropology
Research Guide Contents
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Reference
Sources
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Companion
Encyclopedia of Anthropology: Humanity, Culture and Social Life
Ref. GN 25 .C65 1994
- Countries
and their Cultures Ref. GN307 .C68 2001
- The Dictionary
of Anthropology Ref. GN 307 .D485 1997
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Dictionary
of Concepts in Cultural Anthropology Ref. GN 307 .W56 1991
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Encyclopedia
of Cultural Anthropology Ref. GN 307 .E52 1996
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Encyclopedia
of Social and Cultural Anthropology Ref. GN 307 .E527 1996
- The Encyclopedia
of the Peoples of the World Ref. GN 495.4 .E33 1993.
- Worldmark
Encyclopedia of Cultures and Daily Life Ref. GN 333 .W67 1998
- See also Reference
Materials in Anthropology page
Books
- Find books using
the Five Colleges Libraries
Catalog. Use the broad categories below to browse for sub-topics
or to limit (by date, words in subject or words in title) for more focussed
results. Or do a keyword search on words, such as <culture and politics>.
Sample searches (in UMass portion of the catalog):
- Net
Library - online books
- WorldCat
and Other
Library Catalogs
Journals
(for browsing and searching)
- African American
Review Per PS173.N4N36 and online
- African Identities
online
- African Studies
and online
- Afro-Hispanic
Review Per PQ7081.A1A36
- Journal of
Negro History Per E185.J86 and online
- American Anthropologist
Per GN1.A5 and online
[up to 1995]
- American Ethnologist
Per GN1.A53 and online
[up to 1995]
- Anthropological
Quarterly Per GN1.P7 and online
- Anthropology
and Education Quarterly Per LB45.A75 and online
- Callaloo Per
PS173.N4C3 and online through JSTOR and Project Muse
- Critique of
Anthropology Per GN1.C73 and online
- Cultural Anthropology
Per GN301.C85 and online
- Cultural Dynamics
Per HM1.C84 and online
- Current Anthropology
Per GN1.C8 and online through JSTOR
and Expanded
Academic Index
- Ethnos Per
GN1.E88 and online.
- Human Organization
Per GN1.H83 and online
- Identities:
Global Studies in Culture and Power Per GN495.4.I34 and online
- The Journal
of African American History Per E185.J86
- Journal of
Black Studies Per E185.5.J8 and online
- Journal of
Contemporary Ethnography Per HT101.U677 and online through Sage
and Expanded
Academic Index
- Journal of
Religious Thought Per BR1.J67
- Souls: a Critical
Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society Per E185.5.S68
- Transforming
Anthropology Per GN1.T67 and online through AnthroSource
- Urban Anthropology
Per GN1.U7 Library has: Vols. 1 (1972)-13 (1984)// [Continued by Urban
Anthropology and Studies of Cultural Systems and World Economic Development]
- Urban Anthropology
and Studies of Cultural Systems and World Economic Development Per
GN1.U7
Databases
(journal indexing and online journals)
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Tips:
- From off-campus
locations, an OIT
Computer Account is required to access licensed databases.
Databases that anyone may search are identified with an *
- Use the Database
Searching Log to keep track of your searches and search strategies.
- Use RefWorks
to manage your citations and create your bibliography.
- After
you've run a search, use the
button (if the database has it) to retrieve articles.
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Featured
Databases
- Academic
Search Premier - Citations, abstracts and full text articles from
scholarly and general-interest periodicals. (RefWorks exporting functions
best in Firefox web browser.)
- African
American Song - Audio database which documents African American
music, including jazz, blues, gospel, ragtime, folk songs, and narratives.
Browse by category of music, region, genre, instrument, artist, ensemble,
and time period. A playlist option is available.
- AllAfrica.com
- News stories from
a full range of local newspapers from all over the African continent.
- America:
History and Life - Citations and abstracts for journal articles,
books and dissertations on American history
- Anthropological
Index Online
- Anthropology
Plus - Indexes articles, books, and more. If new to this database,
see the Database
Guide for info on getting started and search tips.
Hints:
1. Use truncation to search variants of a word or idea, e.g. poli?
will search politics, political, and policy
2. Use the Previous Searches to combine ideas from different searches
- AnthroSource
- The searchable full text of the 32 journals published by the American
Anthropological Association, some dating back to the nineteenth century.
- Black
Thought and Culture - Collection
of monographs, essays, articles, speeches, and interviews written by
leaders within the African American community from 1700s to 1975.
- Communication
and Mass Media Complete - Abstracts and full text of articles from
several hundred sources, including core journals in communication, interpersonal
communication, mass media, and journalism
- Contemporary
Women's Issues (full text)
- Digital
Dissertations - (full text of UMass dissertations, 25 page preview
of others)
- eHRAF
Collection of Ethnography - full text collectioin and index to cross-cultural
ethnographic research
- Ethnic
NewsWatch - Full-text articles from the newspapers, magazines and
journals of ethnic communities in the United States. Most articles are
in English, but many from Latino periodicals are in Spanish.
- Hispanic
American Periodicals Index: HAPI - Citations to articles from social
science and humanities journals in English, Spanish, and other languages,
relating to Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean basin,
the United States-Mexico border region, and Hispanics in the United
States.
- International
Index to Music Periodicals (For book reviews,
select "Book Review" in <Document type> box.)
- GenderWatch
(full text)
- Historical
Abstracts - Citations and abstracts for journal articles, books
and dissertations on world history from 1450 to present.
- JSTOR
(full text)
- Lexis-Nexis
- News section contains hundreds of newspapers from all over the world.
Reference contains biographical information, country profiles, and the
World Almanac. Legal section contains law journals and state and federal
legal documents. (full text)
- New
Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians
- PAIS
International - Public affairs (some links to full text)
- Quarterly
Index of African Periodical Literature - Indexes
over 300 mostly scholarly periodicals from 29 African countries.
- Sociological
Abstracts
- Web
of Science - Allows multidisciplinary searches combining arts, humanities,
social science and science. Good for seeing who cited whom. Good for
academic book reviews.
Internet
Resources
Reserves
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here for Reserve
Books and Paper Copies of Articles and eReserve
articles for Anthropology 297a (when available).
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Prepared
for Anthropology 597t Fall 2006. Professor Enoch Page
Library guide by Isabel Espinal, Anthropology Librarian
Last modified 11/30/06
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