Anthropology: General
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Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, Handbooks, and General Works. *
A select list of resources, does not represent all library holdings.
Anthropological glossary
Defines some 4,000-5,000 terms used in cultural/social anthropology, biological/physical anthropology, archaeology, and linguistics. LOCATION: Smathers Library, Rm 100, Reference GN11 .P43 1985
Anthropology: A student's guide to theory and method.
LOCATION: Storage (Request book online), GN25 .B39 1996
Dictionary of Anthropology
LOCATION: Smathers Library, Rm 100, Reference GN307 .D485 1997. 2000 edition available as an e-book. This NetLibrary e-book does not include some or all of the images that were part of the original hardcopy book.
Encyclopedia of the social sciences
The first comprehensive encyclopedia of the social sciences, projected and prepared under the auspices of ten learned societies. International in scope and treatment. Excellent survey of the social sciences as of the 1930’s. Introduction has a discussion of the nature and scope of the social sciences, a history of their development, and a country by country survey of their position. The main portion of the work covers important concepts and advances in anthropology, economics, law, political science, social work, and sociology. Brief biographical articles make up 20 percent of the contents. Articles are accompanied by selected bibliographies, cross-references, and a subject index. (Based on John Weeks). LOCATION: Smathers Library, Rm 100, Reference H41 .E6 1937
Encyclopedia of world cultures
LOCATION: Smathers Library, Rm 100, Reference GN 307 .E53 1991
Fieldwork in the library: a guide to research in anthropology and related area studies
LOCATION: Smathers Library, Rm 100, Reference GN42 .W47 1994
Finding the source in sociology and anthropology: a thesaurus-index to the reference collection
A guide for efficiently locating specific information. Up-to-date free text descriptors and extensive subject indexing, made possible by a thesaurus-index enable the reader to easily find what he or she is looking for, by referring to the bibliographic citations to selected reference books in the first section of the book. LOCATION: Smathers Library, Rm 100, Reference Z 7164 .S68 B75 1987
Great jobs for anthroplogy majors.
LOCATION: Storage (Request book online), GN41.8 .C35 2000. This book is also available on netLibrary as an e-book.
Introduction to library research in anthropology
Gives descriptions of published catalogs, subject bibliographies, handbooks, indexes and abstracts, journal literature, online databases, the Human Relations Area Files, an outline of the Library of Congress classification system, etc. LOCATION: Smathers Library, Rm 100, Reference GN42 W441 1997
The Social Sciences: a cross-disciplinary guide to selected sources
LOCATION: Smathers Library, Rm 100, Reference Z7161 .S648 2002. This book is also available on netLibrary as an e-book.
Social science reference sources: a practical guide
Provides detailed, critical and comparative descriptions of major reference sources. Covers unpublished materials and data archives, and database bibliographic services and well as printed materials. Name and title indexes. LOCATION: Smathers Library, Rm 100, Reference Z7161.A1 L5 2000. This book is also available on netLibrary as an e-book.
Online Databases
Journal article finding guides.
A+ Research Starter
A list of several databases that cover many subject areas. Search any of the given databases for some full-text articles on almost any topic.
Anthropological and General Subject Area Databases
A list of databases that cover anthropology resources as well as other databases that contain relevant information for the anthropology researcher.
Online Style Guides
American Anthropological Association Style Guide
AAA Style Guide available as a downloadable PDF file.
Society for American Archaeology Style Guide
SAA Style Guide available as a downloadable PDF file.
Selected Websites
A list of websites organized by anthropological subfields.
*Some of the resources found on these pages were adapted from the print version of the Anthropology Reference Guide created by Robert Singerman, Anthropology Bibliographer.
