This subject guide covers anthropology resources available at the Johnston Memorial Library, including full-text journals, magazine, and newspaper articles,  anthropology websites, and printed materials in the Reference Collection. This is not a comprehensive subject guide, but rather a selective list of materials that are most useful for locating information in this field. Library location and call  number are provided for print publications. 
 
 
 

• Annual Reviews. An excellent resource for current and retrospective articles on urban planning. Both published and future content can be searched. Searching can be done by keyword, author, or title. Includes indexing from 1984 to current.

• Ethnic NewsWatch. Ethnic NewsWatch is a full-text collection of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press. A rich collection of articles,editorials, columns, reviews, etc. provide a broad diversity of perspectives and viewpoints -- the other sides of the stories. Free text searching and complete indexing makes Ethnic NewsWatch easy to search.

• InfoTrac OneFile. A one-stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics: anthropology, business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social science, sports, technology, and many general interest topics. Millions of full-text articles many with images. Updated daily.

• Oxford University Press Online Journals. The Oxford University Press is well-known for its excellence in research, scholarship, and education. The publisher is widely recognized as a premier publisher of journals. This database provides online access to 134 periodical titles in the fields of humanities, social sciences, and the sciences.

• Project Muse. Full text of over 100 scholarly journals in the humanities, and social sciences.

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• Sociological Abstracts. Covers theoretical and applied sociology, social science, and policy science from journal articles, dissertations, book abstracts, chapter abstracts, and association paper abstracts.

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• Encyclopedia of Cultural Anthropology 4 vols. This encyclopedia provides articles, arranged alphabetically by topic, on many concepts in cultural anthropology, as well as linguistics, biological anthropology and archaeology. Each essay contains an extensive bibliography. Location: Reference Collection, First Floor, Call Number: REF GN307.E52.

• Encyclopedia of Social and Cultural Anthropology. Essays and bibliographies covering key concepts and geographical regions. A "biographical appendix" offers brief info on famous anthropological people. Location: Reference Collection, First Floor, Call Number: REF. GN307.E525.

• Encyclopedia of World Cultures 10 vols. The encyclopedia lists cultures alphabetically and gives brief information (where known) about history, kinship, economy, marriage, religious customs and so on. Entries include a bibliography of at least one item, usually more. Location: Reference Collection, First Floor, Call Number: GN307.E53.

• Ethnic Groups Worldwide. The purpose of this handbook is to provide readers with an easy-to-use,accurate, up-to-date guide to ethnic groups in the contemporary world. Location: Reference Collection, First Floor, Call Number: GN325.L46.

• Worldmark Encyclopedia of Cultures and Daily Life. 4 vols. This set contains articles exploring the ways of life of over 500 culture groups worldwide. This encyclopedia focuses on the traditions, living conditions, and personalities of many of the world's culture groups. Entries emphasize how people live to day, rather than how they lived in the past. Location: Reference Collection, First Floor, Call Number: GN333.W67.

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• Anthromorphemics: Anthropology Glossary. This searchable glossary provides definitions for terms in archaeology and physical and cultural anthropology.

• Anthro.Net. Anthro.Net queries a database of over 40,000 pages from reviewed web sites with anthropological content built by users' interests. The system collects the search terms submitted by its users and uses proprietary software to hunt down internet based journal articles, well developed topical sites and bibliographic references for anthropology, archaeology and the other social sciences. Anthro.Net uses a spider or robot program to check for outdated and dead links. The site contains dynamically generated news and anthropology features updated around the clock.

• Anthropological Index Online. Index to periodicals held at the Anthropology Library of the British Museum, London. Comprising thousands of indexed periodical titles, with a variable-language interface, and free to individuals for education use. Citations include author, title, date, and journal; full text or summaries of articles are not available at this web site.

• Anthropology. A basic introduction to the topic. The searchable Anthropology Tutorials cover physical (biological) anthropology and include early theories of evolution, genetics, heredity, chromosomal abnormalities, biological adaptability, primates, and the classification of living things. Cultural (Social) anthropology includes language and culture, kinship, sex and marriage, ethnicity and race, and culture change.

• Anthropology Biographies. Biographies, links for further reading, and (usually) images of anthropologists are presented in alphabetical order. This site also includes other scientists that have direct influence on the discipline of anthropology. Produced by Mankato State University, Minnesota students as part of the E-Museum (virtual museum) project.

• Anthropology Collections. This site provides access to collection data housed in the Department of Anthropology, California Academy of Sciences. The permanent research collection of the Department of Anthropology comprises approximately 17,000 objects, most of which are ethnographic. The Department actively collects materials from the indigenous cultures of western North America (exclusive of Mexico) and the Pacific Rim, including all Pacific islands and East Asia. Current strengths of the collection are general holdings from the U.S. Southwest and the Pacific Islands, and basketry from California. Earlier years of collecting have yielded both ethnographic and archaeological materials from East Africa, the Middle East, Europe, and Central and South America. This compelling Web site loads quickly, navigates easily, and has a forthright style with clear graphics and fonts. The splendid, user-friendly Anthropology Collection Database provides a dozen search parameters, enabling users to retrieve object records by virtually any combination of fields present in the database.

• Anthropology Resources on the Internet. A great place to begin searches for anthropology materials on the Internet. Includes lists of discussion groups; programs and files via FTP; gopher servers; World Wide Web servers on general anthropology, archaeology, archaeological digs, linguistics, cultural anthropology, physical anthropology, museums, academic departments, other institutions, commercial sites; electronic journals and archives; and other anthropology resource collections.

• Becoming Human. Arizona State University’s Institute for Human Origins has created this site to teach about evolution and mankind and how researchers study the topic. Includes an extensive glossary, a bibliography, and an annotated set of links to over fifty Web sites categorized as follows: General Interest, Evidence, Anatomy, Lineages, and Culture. Covers news about events and discoveries in paleoanthropology and related fields. The centerpiece is a multimedia (requires Macromedia Flash) documentary narrated by Donald C. Johanson, who discovered the famous hominid Lucy.

• Electronic Journals in Anthropology. List of anthropology journals available on the internet.

• Ethnography and Anthropology. This site is maintained by the Social Science Information Gateway. Arranged by categories. SOSIG aims to provide a trusted source of selected, high quality Internet information for students, academics, researchers and practitioners in the area of anthropology.

• Kinship and Social Organization. An online tutorial describing the "basic principle of organizing individuals into social groups, roles, and categories." Included are diagrams, illustrations, and animations. It describes systems of descent, basic systems of kinship classification, marriage systems, and residence rules. Also available are Ethnographic Examples of social organizations and genealogies among Turkish peasants, the ancient Hebrews, and groups of the Amazon forest, West Africa, and New Guinea. There is also a glossary and an FAQ that includes 1998 State Variations on American Marriage Prohibitions. From the University of Manitoba.

• Resources in Ethnographic Studies. A Collection of Resources in Anthropology, Ethnomusicology, Folklore, and Folklife Created by the Library of Congress.

• Voice of the Shuttle-Anthropology. Online research resources for anthropology.

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