American Cultures

• Africana: the Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience Ref. DT 14 .A37435 1999
• The Asian American Encyclopedia E184.O6 A827 1995
• The Encyclopedia of the Irish in America Ref. E184.I6 E53 1999
• Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America Ref. E184.A1 G14 1995 and online
• The Latino Encyclopedia Ref. E184.S75 L357 1996
• Racial and Ethnic Diversity: Asians, Blacks, Hispanics, Native Americans, and Whites Ref. E184.A1 R78 2002

Books

• Use the Five Colleges or UMass Library Catalog to search for books. Use the broad categories below to browse for sub-topics by country or region, or to limit (by date, words in subject or words in title) for more focussed results.
  Sample searches:
  • Cookery, followed by ethnic group or nationality
    • e.g. Cookery, Mexican
  • Diet -- followed by name of country
    • e.g. Diet -- Great Britain
  • Food Habits -- followed by name of country
    • e.g. Food Habits -- India
    • e.g. Food Habits -- United States
  • Food - Social Aspects
  • Food supply -- followed by name of country
    • e.g. Food Supply -- Bangladesh
  • "Social life and Customs" as a subdivision under the name of country or ethnic group
    • e.g. Nigeria -- Social Life And Customs
      
• Net Library - online books

Journals (for browsing and searching)

• American Anthropologist Per GN1.A5 and online [up to 1995]
• Cultural Anthropology Per GN301.C85 and online
• Current Anthropology Per GN1.C8 and online through JSTOR and Expanded Academic Index
• Food & Foodways Per GT2860.F66 and online [2001-present]
• Journal of Contemporary Ethnography Per HT101.U677 and online through Sage and Expanded Academic Index

Databases (journal indexing and online journals)

• Academic Search Premier (includes full text of many academic journals). Citations can be saved to a folder and exported directly to RefWorks.
• America History and Life Provides citations and abstracts for journal articles, dissertations and book reviews published in over 2000 journals covering United States and Canadian history (including especially historical archeology). Citations can be tagged and exported directly to RefWorks.
• 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. Citations can be saved in a text file and imported into RefWorks.
• AnthroSource - The searchable full text of the 32 journals published by the American Anthropological Association, some dating back to the nineteenth century.
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  eHRAF Collection of Ethnography Full text collection and index to cross-cultural ethnographic research. Not all cultures are represented, but for those that are, it's a valuable resource.

  Introductory tutorial

  Help pages

  Searching

  Citing a Document from eHRAF - "When citing a document from eHRAF, use the citation style you normally would use (e.g., MLA, AAA style) for the author, title, and publication information and then add the following: 'As seen in the eHRAF Collection of Ethnography on the Web, (use the current date, month/day/year)." (From the eHRAF Help pages.)

  
  
• Encyclopedia of Food and Culture - Presents hundreds of articles on food and its place in human culture and society.
• 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. Citations can be exported directly to RefWorks.
• Historical Abstracts Citations and abstracts for journal articles, books, and dissertations covering world history (except for the United States and Canada, for which see America History and Life) from 1450 to the present. There is some coverage of archeology, especially historical archeology. Citations can be tagged and exported directly to RefWorks.
• Sociological Abstracts - Good for research on social issues such as class inequality, migration, race and gender. Citations can be exported directly to RefWorks.
• 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

• Resources for the Anthropological Study of Food Habits
• See also Anthropology Internet Links page.

Reserves

Click here for Reserve Books and Paper Copies of Articles and eReserve articles for Anthropology 104 (when available).

Citation Styles

Use RefWorks Bibliography Manager to download and manage your citations and create bibliographies. A standard style format for Anthropology is the American Anthropological Association, which is included in the RefWorks Bibliography Output styles. See the AAA Style Guide (Online) for details and examples.

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Prepared for Anthropology 104: Culture, Society & People
(Fall 2003 & Fall 2005, Professor Jean Forward; Spring and Fall 2004, Professor Julie Hemment)
Library guide by Isabel Espinal, Humanities & Anthropology Librarian

Last modified: February 28, 2007