Alvin Sherman Library, Research, and Information Technology Center

Anthropology

Technology. Material culture. Including food, shelter, fire, tools.

Ethnic groups and races. By region or country

Cultural Anthropology: Journal of the Society for Cultural Anthropology

Academic OneFile - Gale Cengage Learning

Provides citations and abstracts for articles from over 7400 primarily peer-reviewed journals in science, technology and medicine, as well as the humanities, social sciences, and more. Full text is available for 3300 of the journals. Also includes podcasts and transcripts from NPR, CNN, and the CBC, as well as full text for The New York Times.

Credo Reference

Full text for over 250 reference books covering art, biography, business, conversions, dictionaries, encyclopedias, food, geography, history, language, law, literature, medicine, music, philosophy, psychology, quotations, religion, science, social sciences, and technology.

Daily Life Online - Greenwood Publishing

Combines Daily Life through History, Daily Life Premium, and World Folklore and Folklife databases to provide full text information, maps, images, website links, etc. on folklore, cultures, and customs of peoples around the world from ancient times to the present.

Humanities Full Text- Wilson Web

Citations, abstracts, and selected full-text articles from humanities publications from 1984 to present. For earlier citations, see Humanities and Social Sciences Index Retrospective.

Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective – WilsonWeb

Provides citations for articles in the humanities and social sciences published 1907-1984. For more recent coverage, see Humanities Full Text and Social Sciences Full Text.

Proquest Social Science Journals – ProQuest

Citations, abstracts, and selected full-text articles from humanities publications from 1984 to present. For earlier citations, see Humanities and Social Sciences Index Retrospective.

Web of Science- Thomson (Web of Knowledge)

Provides abstracts, cited references, times cited, and links to full text when available for articles in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities (1975 to present). Tools allow citation tracking, exporting of citations, saved searches, and other personalization. WOS includes Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index which can also be searched separately.

American Anthropological Association (AAA)

http://www.aaanet.org/

The primary professional society of anthropologists in the US. Their website also includes links to other anthropology societies.

Anthro.Net

http://www.anthro.net

ISI Current Web Contents list of links to thousands of evaluated scholarly Web sites and bibliographic references in the social sciences, dedicated particularly to anthropology and archaeology.

Anthropology Resources on the Internet 

http://www.aaanet.org/resinet.htm

Annotated list of links from the American Anthropological Association, arranged by sub-discipline and type of resource.

Anthropology Review Database (ARD)

http://wings.buffalo.edu/ARD/

Published online by the Univeristy of Buffalo, ARD is a database of signed, refereed reviews covering the entire gamut of anthropological publications, including books, audiovisual materials, software & multimedia, exhibits, tourist sites, conferences, and on-line resources.

Anthropology Tutorials 

http://anthro.palomar.edu/tutorials

Lessons in both cultural and physical anthropology, including glossaries, related Web sites, and suggestions for further study, from the Behavioral Sciences Department of Palomar College.

ArchNet 

http://archnet.asu.edu

The Archaeological Research Institute of Arizona State University provides this comprehensive, searchable list of links to archaeological resources on the Web, indexed by geographic region or subject area.

Human Relations Area Files

http://www.yale.edu/hraf/index.html

Fully indexed, electronic collections facilitating the cross-cultural study of human behavior, society and culture. Maintained by the not-for-profit HRAF consortium at Yale University, the information is arranged by cultural and ethnic groups, and subject-indexed at the paragraph-level, in the eHRAF Collection of Ethnography and the eHRAF Collection of Archaeology.

National Anthropological Archives/Human Studies Film Archives 

http://www.nmnh.si.edu/naa

Guides to historical and contemporary anthropological materials in a variety of formats, collected by the Department of Anthropology of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History, that document the world's cultures and the history of the discipline.

Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI) 

http://www.therai.org.uk/

The professional society for anthropologists in Great Britain and Ireland. It is the oldest professional society of anthropologists.

SOSIG (Social Science Information Gateway) Ethnology, Ethnography, Anthropology

http://sosig.ac.uk/roads/subject-listing/World-cat/ethno.html

Fully searchable, abstracted and indexed database of resources in these subjects, including many full-text articles and papers, journals, books and bibliographies, as well as links to other relevant databases and organizations.

Tozzer Library of Harvard College 

http://hcl.harvard.edu/tozzer/

One of the world’s pre-eminent anthropology collections.

Voice of the Shuttle: Anthropology

http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2703

Links to online academic resources in anthropology, including writings and projects, journals, teaching resources, and conferences, from the English Department of the University of California, Santa Barbara.