REF GN 11 .W5 1969 Winick, Charles. Dictionary of Anthropology. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1969. The classic dictionary for quick definitions of anthropological terms.
REF GN 307 .D485 1997 Barfield, Thomas. The Dictionary of Anthropology. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, Inc., 1997. The best update to Winick.
REF GN 307 .E527 1996 Barnard, Alan & Jonathan Spencer, eds. Encyclopedia of Social and Cultural Anthropology. NY: Routledge, 1996. Descriptions of terms in their anthropological context, tracing the history, development, and use of each entry. Very helpful bibliographies, plus a section of short biographical entries and a glossary.
REF GN 281 .E53 2000 Cambridge Encyclopedia of Human Evolution and Prehistory. NY: Garland, 2000 Nearly 800 entries on paleoanthropology, with illustrations and index. Articles were chosen to reflect a variety of views on the same topics
REF GN 307 .E52 Encyclopedia of Cultural Anthropology. 4 vols. NY: Henry Holt & Co., 1996. Sponsored by the Human Relations Area Files, this set covers regions, topics, races, themes, and trends in the discipline.
REF GN 307 .E53 1991 Encyclopedia of World Cultures. 10 vols. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1991. Descriptive summaries of cultures, with each volume containing an entire continent. Entries follow a pattern to describe the history, economy, kinship, marriage, and family patterns, social and political organization, religion, and arts of each culture, with a brief bibliography to round them off. Maps, glossaries, filmographies, and indexes of ethnonyms, which help identify scattered cultures such as the Rom (or gypsies).
Native American Authors--an Internet Public Library Bibliographic Project Covers roughly 400 American Indian authors, 700 books, and 200 URLs, accessible by author, title, or tribe. Intended as an annotated bibliography of print and Web sources on American Indian authors.
REF GN 1 .A15 Abstracts in Anthropology. Amityville, MY: Baywood Publishing Co., Inc., 1985+ The major source for English-language articles in anthropology. Issues come out four times a year, with odd numbered issues covering linguistics and cultural anthropology, and even numbered issues covering archaeology and physical anthropology.
Annual Review of Anthropology. Palo Alto, CA: Annual Reviews, 1972+ Essays on recent research in various topics, with extensive bibliographies. If there's an essay on your topic here, a lot of your work has been done for you, and put into context as well.
Anthropological Index OnlineCoverage: 1957+ Index to periodicals held at the Anthropology Library of the British Museum, London, formerly the Royal Anthropological Institute Library.
Anthropology PlusAvailable: Colby only Coverage: Anthro Lit 1984+; Anthro Index late 19th c.+ Anthropology Plus brings together into one resource the highly respected Anthropological Literature from Harvard University and Anthropological Index, Royal Anthropological Institute from the UK. Anthropology Plus provides extensive worldwide indexing of journal articles, reports, commentaries, edited works, and obituaries in the fields of social, cultural, physical, biological, and linguistic anthropology, ethnology, archaeology, folklore, material culture, and interdisciplinary studies. The index offers excellent coverage of all core periodicals in the field in addition to local and lesser-known journals. Coverage is from the late 19th century to the present
Bibliography of Native North AmericansAvailable: CBB only Updated: annually Access: Ebsco Based on the cumulative 8 volumes of the Ethnographic Bibliography of Native North America, the standard reference work on the native peoples of North America. Presents 17 broad regions including 290 ethnic groups, with over 80,000 citations published from the 16th century to the present.
Gender Studies Database Includes over 204,000 records drawn from several large women's studies databases including Women Studies Abstracts (1984 - present), Women's Studies Database (1972 - present), Women of Color and Southern Women (1975 - 1995), and NISC's Women's Studies International and Men's Studies databases with the coverage of sexual diversity issues. Also includes relevant contributions from NISC's Child Development & Adolescent Studies as well as Family & Society Studies Worldwide databases. Source documents include professional journals, conference papers, books, book chapters, government reports, discussion and working papers, theses & dissertations and other sources. Also includes links to selected and websites.
Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI)Available: CBB only Coverage: 1970 - present Updated: annually Access: UCLA The primary database for U.S.-Hispanic and Latin American topics. HAPI cites articles published in English and European languages from more than 400 scholarly journals worldwide.
LGBT with Full TextAvailable: Colby only Coverage: 1977 - present Access: Ebsco LGBT indexes gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender literature and emphasizes history, culture, social issues, interests and concerns of the LGBT community. Materials covered include periodicals, books, conference proceedings, newspapers, dissertations and web documents.
Sociological AbstractsAvailable: CBB only Coverage: 1963 - present Updated: monthly Access: CSA CSA Sociological Abstracts abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. The database provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,700 serials publications, and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers. Records added after 1974 contain in-depth and nonevaluative abstracts of journal articles. The database begins coverage in 1974; we also have the earlier print volumes of Sociological Abstracts (REF HM 1 .S67) from 1953 to 1973.
AnthroSource--Full text of most American Anthropological Association journals.
REF GN 25 .C65 1994 Ingold, Tim, ed. Companion Encyclopedia of Anthropology. NY: Routledge, 1994 A collection of essays, each with references and bibliography, and many with illustrations. Archaeology, evolution, culture, and social life are the broad categories, with a subject index for more precise access.
REF E 77 .H25 Handbook of North American Indians. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1988+ The starting place for information about American Indians. Each volume covers a region, so some tribes may not be represented as the set is still in process. There is also a volume on the history of Indian-White relations.
REF JN 1 .E85 Europa World Year Book. 2 vols. London: Europa Publications Ltd., annual. Basic information on all the countries of the world: history, government, economics, and statistics on demography, industry, and the media. Directory information for major organizations, ambassadors, the press, publishers, trade, tourism, and other groups. Use the online version, Europa World Plus, for comparative tables and other data. Many countries are covered in greater depth by the following titles:
Africa South of the Sahara REF DT 351 .A37
Central and South-Eastern Europe REF HC 244 .A1 E242 E29
Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia REF HC 244 .A1 E29
The Far East and Australasia REF DS 1 .F3
The Middle East and North Africa REF DS 49 .M55
South America, Central America, and The Caribbean REF F 1406.5 .S68
Western Europe REF HC 240 .A1 W47
Ethnic NewswatchAvailable: (Colby Only) Coverage: 1991 - present (for most titles) Updated: monthly Access: ProQuest A full-text database of newspapers and magazines of the ethnic and minority press in America: African-American, Arab/Middle Eastern, Asian-American, European/Eastern European, Hispanic/ Latino/Chicano, Jewish, and Native American.
Theory in Anthropology--definitions, history, and current research of a variety of subdisciplines and specializations of anthropology, with links as appropriate, as well as a chronological survey of the development of the discipline and a section on prominent anthropological theorists.
