Reference Sources

• 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

• Dictionary of Concepts in Cultural Anthropology Ref. GN 307 .W56 1991

• Encyclopedia of Cultural Anthropology Ref. GN 307 .E52 1996

• 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.
• Ethnic Cultures of the World: a Statistical Reference Ref. GN495.4 .P37 1997
• Growing Up: a Cross-cultural Encyclopedia. Ref. HQ767.84 .B76 1995
• Human Values and Beliefs: a Cross-cultural Sourcebook: Political, Religious, Sexual, and Economic Norms in 43 Societies: Findings from the 1990-1993 World Values Survey Ref. HM73 .I544 1998
• International Encyclopedia of Marriage and Family Ref. HQ9 .E52 2003
• The International Encyclopedia of Sexuality HQ21 .I68 1999
• International Handbook on Gender Roles Ref. HQ1075 .I58 1993
• Law and Politics: a Cross-cultural Encyclopedia Ref. K487.P65 S77 1995

• Marriage, Family and Relationships: a Cross-cultural Encyclopedia Ref. GN480 .B76 1994

• Our Bodies, Ourselves for the New Century: a Book by and for Women Ref. RA778 .N67 1998
• 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):
  • Anthropological Ethics
  • Applied Anthropology
  • Body, Human
    • Body, Human -- Cross Cultural Studies
    • Body, Human -- Political Aspects
    • Body, Human -- Social Aspects
  • Breastfeeding
    • Breastfeeding -- Cross Cultural Studies
    • Breastfeeding -- Political Aspects
    • Breastfeeding -- Social Aspects
  • Economic Anthropology
  • English Language -- Political Aspects
  • Ethnological Jurisprudence
  • Language and Languages -- Political Aspects
  • Political Anthropology
  • Politics and Culture
  • Popular Culture -- Political aspects
  • Racism in Anthropology
  • Sex Customs
  • Sex -- Political Aspects
• Net Library - online books
• WorldCat and Other Library Catalogs

Journals (for browsing and searching)

• 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
• 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
• Ethnologia Europaea Per GN575.E7
• 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
• Journal of Contemporary Ethnography Per HT101.U677 and online through Sage and Expanded Academic Index
• Journal of Linguistic Anthropology Per P35.J66
• Journal of Modern Italian Studies online
• Language in Society Per P41.L3 and online
• Medical Anthropology Quarterly Per GN296.M44 and online [up to 1995]
• Social Science and Medicine Per RA418.S616 [1982-2001] and online [2002-2003]
• Transforming Anthropology Per GN1.T67
• 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)

Featured Databases

• Academic Search Premier
• America: History and Life
• 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 the Advanced Search option to combine terms, e.g. body and politics
  2. Use truncation to search variants of a word or idea, e.g. poli? will search politics, political, and policy
  3. 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.
• Contemporary Women's Issues (full text)
• GenderWatch (full text)
• eHRAF Collection of Ethnography - full text collectioin and index to cross-cultural ethnographic research
• LegalTrac - Citations to articles and some full text articles from law reviews and law-related journals.
• Web of Science - Allows multidisciplinary searches combining arts, humanities, social science and science. Good for seeing who cited whom. Good for academic book reviews.

Other Databases

• Alt-PressWatch - U.S. alternative newsweeklies (full text)
• Anthropology Review Database ARD - Reviews of anthropological publications, including books, audiovisual materials, software & multimedia, exhibits, tourist sites, conferences, and on-line resources.
• CINAHL - A nursing database that covers issues of breastfeeding.
• ComAbstracts - Indexes and abstracts communications journals.
• Digital Dissertations - (full text of UMass dissertations, 25 page preview of others)
• 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.
• Expanded Academic Index ASAP (includes full text)
• International Political Science Abstracts
• 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)
• Linguistics Abstracts Online - Abstracts of articles from around 300 major linguistics journals. Good for researching political and policy aspects of language.
• PAIS International - Public affairs (some links to full text)
• Project MUSE (full text)
• Social Science Abstracts
• Sociological Abstracts

Internet Resources

• Cultural Politics - Anth 297a Professor Krause's course web page.
• Center for Public Interest Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania
  
• Public Anthropology
  
• Society for Applied Anthropology
  
• Society for Urban, National and Transnational/Global Anthropology
  
• See also Anthropology Internet Links page.

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