Anthropology

Electronic Databases

Subject Specific Databases:

  • Anthropological Literature Bibliography of articles and essays on anthropology and archaeology, including art history, demography, economics, psychology, and religious studies going back to the 19th century.

  • Bibliography of Native North Americans (BNNA) Bibliographic database covering all aspects of native North American culture, history, and life. This resource covers a wide range of topics including archaeology, multicultural relations, gaming, governance, legend, and literacy. BNNA contains more than 122,000 citations for books, essays, journal articles, and government documents of the United States and Canada. Dates of coverage for included content range from the sixteenth century to the present.
  • Ethnic News Watch Full-text collection of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press.
  • Handbook of Latin American Studies Bibliographic contains citations from 1935 to the present on all cultural, social and historical Latin American Topics.
  • LLBA : Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (1973-present) Provides abstracts of articles from approximately 2,000 serials published worldwide; citations to dissertations, books and book reviews are included.

General or Related Databases:

  • America History and Life Bibliographic citations on U.S. and Canadian history, covering over 2000 journals and indexing and abstracting articles since 1964. Select references to books, media and dissertations are also included. Book reviews in the journals are indexed.
  • Article First Indexes complied from the tables of contents from 12,500 journals 1990 to the present.
  • Arts and Humanities Search Index to titles of articles in archaeology, architecture, art, classics, dance, film, folklore, history, language and linguistics, literature, music, Performance Art, philosophy, theater, theology and religious studies.
  • EBSCOhost (Academic Search) A collection of general reference and subject-specific research databases offering indexing and abstracting for periodical and newspaper articles; some full-text.
  • GeoRef/S Over 2 million bibliographic citations to all fields of geology and paleontology from 1785 (in North America) to the present. Many citations are relevant to archaeology.
  • WorldCat Union catalog of thousands of libraries around the world containing over 41 million records of books, journals, manuscripts, videos, music scores and recordings.

Print Materials

Subject Encyclopedias

  • Encyclopedia of Africa South of the Sahara [Reference] DT351 .E53 1997 catalog record
  • Encyclopedia of the Peoples of the World [Reference] GN495.4 .E53 1993 catalog record
  • Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan [Reference] DS805 .K633 1983 catalog record

Dictionaries

Handbooks and Guides

Handbook of North American Indians [Government Documents] SI 1.20/2: catalog record [Main Library] E77 .H25

Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas [Main Library] E77 .N62 1996 catalog record

Ethnic Groups Worldwide [Reference] GN325 .L46 1998 catalog record

 

Internet Resources

Africa: South of the Sahara

African Studies Center University of Pennsylvania

Asia-Pacific Network

Geographic Information Systems

Latin America Network Information Center

Native American Sites on the Web

Useful Archaeology Links