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General Anthropology

Encyclopedia of Anthropology
H. James Birx, ed.
MILLS Reference (2nd floor) GN 11 .E53 2006
 
International Dictionary of Anthropologists
Library-Anthropology Resource Group, comp.; Christopher Winters, general ed.
MILLS Reference (2nd floor) GN 20 .I5z 1991
 
The Dictionary of Anthropology
Thomas Barfield, ed.
MILLS Reference (2nd floor) GN 307 .D485 1997 or Online
 
Gérald Gaillard
Online
 

Archaeology

Archaeological Method and Theory: an Encyclopedia
Linda Ellis, ed.
MILLS Reference (2nd floor) CC 75 .A653 2000
 
Encyclopedia of Archaeology: History and Discoveries
Tim Murray, ed.
MILLS Reference (2nd floor) CC 100 .E54 2001
 
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology
Timothy Darvill
MILLS Reference (2nd floor) CC 70 .D37 2002 or Online
 

Linguistics

A Glossary of Sociolinguistics
Peter Trudgill
MILLS Reference (2nd floor) P 40 .T747 2003
 
E.K. Brown
MILLS Reference (2nd Floor) P 29 .E48 2006
 
Philipp Strazny
MILLS Reference (2nd Floor) P 29 .E483 2005 (v.1-2) or Online
 
International Encyclopedia of Linguistics
William J. Frawley, ed.
MILLS Reference (2nd floor) P 29 .I58 2003
 
P. H. (Peter Hugoe) Matthews
MILLS Reference (2nd Floor) P 29 .M34 1997 or Online
 

Physical Anthropology

Dictionary of Concepts in Physical Anthropology
Joan C. Stevenson
MILLS Reference (2nd floor) GN 50.3 .S74 1991
 
Mark D. Pagel
Online
 
Encyclopedia of Human Evolution and Prehistory
Eric Delson, ed.
MILLS Reference (2nd floor) GN 281 .E53 2000
 
Larry L. Mai
THODE Reference (lower level) QP 34.5 .M24 2005 or Online

Socio-Cultural Anthropology [Ethnology]

Biographical Dictionary of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Vered Amit, ed.
MILLS Reference (2nd floor) GN 20 .B55 2004
 
Countries and their Cultures
Melvin Ember and Carol R Ember, eds.
MILLS Reference (2nd floor) GN 307 .C68 2001
 
Encyclopedia of Cultural Anthropology
David Levinson and Melvin Ember, eds.
MILLS Reference (2nd floor) GN 307 .E52 1996
 
Encyclopedia of Food and Culture
Solomon H. Katz, ed.
MILLS Reference (2nd floor) GT 2850 .E53 2003
 
Encyclopedia of Human Ecology
Julia R. Miller et al., eds.
MILLS Reference (2nd floor) GF 4 .E53 2003
 
Encyclopedia of Prehistory
Peter N. Peregrine and Melvin Ember., eds.
MILLS Reference (2nd floor) GN 710 .E53 2001
 
Encyclopedia of the World’s Minorities
Carl Skutsch, ed.
MILLS Reference (2nd floor) GN 495 .4.E63 2005
 
 
Peoples, Nations, and Cultures: an A-Z of the Peoples of the World, Past and Present
John M. MacKenzie, general ed.
MILLS Reference (2nd floor) GN 316 .P385 2005
 
Nigel Rapport
MILLS Reference (2nd Floor) GN 316 .R37 2000
 
Worldmark Encyclopedia of Cultures and Daily Life
Timothy L. Gall, ed.
MILLS Reference (2nd floor) GN 333 .W67 1998

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Ethnology [Social-Cultural Anthropology]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Articles/Databases

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Article Databases / Indexes

Best Bet! Abstracts in Anthropology

Covers a broad spectrum of significant, current anthropological topics from a number of periodicals. Several thousand abstracts, selected and classified, fully indexed by author and subject.
 
Describes over 500,000 articles and essays on anthropology and archaeology, including art history, demography, economics, linguistics, psychology and religious studies.
 
A complete electronic archive of the American Anthropological Association most critical peer-reviewed publications.
 
JSTOR provides access to a digital archive of journals in the areas of Arts, Business, Economics, and Sciences. JSTOR includes the entire runs of these journals, from the very first issue to the volumes published a few years ago.
 
Abstracts and indexes the international literature in linguistics and related disciplines in the language sciences; provides over 361,000 abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,500 serials publications, and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, and dissertations.
 
PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 16 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s.
 
Searchable abstracts of 750,000+ articles from more than 518 English-language periodicals in both applied and theoretical aspects of the social sciences, with 47,000+ new records added annually. Subjects include anthropology, criminology, economics, law, geography, policy studies, psychology, sociology, social work, and urban studies.

 

 

Websites

The Internet is home to useful web sites on many subjects. Unlike the resources on other tabs, the following resources are selected from the free web. Remember to critically evaluate web resources, since web site content is usually unmonitored and unregulated.
The Anthro.Net database contains thousands of reviewed websites and bibliographic references.  A search engine allows users to locate information relevant to anthropology, archeaology and linguisitcs and the table of contents includes a detailed list of subject categories contained within Anthro.Net.
 
This site offers news stories of interest to anthropologists and archaeologists from various sources, such as the New York Times and National Geographic.
 

Anthropology Internet Resources

A comprehensive list of internet resources compiled by the Department of Anthropology at McMaster University.
  
A comprehensive web portal that includes information, such as academic departments, research and data, news and news groups and a wide range of topical links.
 
Intute: Anthropology provides free access to high quality resources on the Internet.  Each resource has been evaluated and categorised by subject specialists based at UK universities.  Users can browse by keyword searching, subject heading, or a specific resource type. 
 
A collection of Internet resources related to anthropology produced by the Internet Public Library.
 
Lists of web resources compiled by the Canadian Association for Physical Anthropology on a variety of topics, such as evolutionary biology, human and molecular genetics, and paleoanthropology.

Citation and Style Guides

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A brief guide outlining the style rules basic to the AAA style.
 
Includes citation guidelines for articles submitted to the American Journal of Physical Anthropology for publication.
 
Completely searchable, the Chicago Manual of Style Online, provides quick answers to your style, writing, and editing questions.
 

Charles Lipson
INNIS Bookstacks PN 171 .F56 L55 2006

A comprehensive style guide specific to the field of archaeology.