Anthropology Subject Guide

eHRAF World Cultures is a cross-cultural database that contains information on all aspects of cultural and social life. The annually-growing eHRAF database is unique in that the information is organized into cultures and ethnic groups and the full-text sources are subject-indexed at the paragraph level.
Historical to present.
eHRAF Archaeology is an online cross-cultural database containing information on world prehistory.  This unique, annually-growing eHRAF database is organized by archaeological traditions and the full-text sources are subject-indexed at the paragraph level. eHRAF Archaeology is a unique resource designed to facilitate comparative archaeological studies.
Covers: 1864 - current.
Aluka is an international, collaborative initiative building an online digital library of scholarly resources from and about Africa.  A wide variety of high-quality scholarly materials contributed by our partners, ranging from archival documents, periodicals, books, reports, manuscripts, and reference works, to three-dimensional models, maps, oral histories, plant specimens, photographs, and slides are organized into three collections: African Cultural Heritage Sites and Landscapes, African Plants, and Struggles for Freedom in Southern Africa.
The bibliography includes more than 25,000 citations spanning 75 years of SIL International's language research in over 2,700 languages.  The site also provides computer resources including an extensive library for language researchers.
Birx, H. James. 2010. 21st century anthropology a reference handbook. Thousand Oaks, Calif: Sage
Rapport, Nigel, and Joanna Overing. 2000. Social and cultural anthropology the key concepts. London: Routledge.  
Birx, H. James. 2006. Encyclopedia of anthropology. Thousand Oaks, Calif: Sage.
Darvill, Timothy. 2008. The concise Oxford dictionary of archaeology. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press.
Majewski, Teresita, and David R. M. Gaimster. 2009. International handbook of historical archaeology. New York: Springer.
Barnard, Alan, and Jonathan Spencer. 2009. Encyclopedia of Social and Cultural Anthropology. Hoboken: Taylor & Francis.
Larsen, Clark Spencer. 2010. A Companion to Biological Anthropology. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons.
Kronenfeld, David B. 2011. A companion to cognitive anthropology. Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell.
Gordon, Robert J., Harriet Lyons, and Andrew Lyons. 2010. Fifty Key Anthropologists. Hoboken: Taylor & Francis.
VanPool, Todd L., and Robert D. Leonard. 2011. Quantitative analysis in archaeology. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.
Schwartz, Jeffrey H., Ian Tattersall, and Ralph L. Holloway. 2002-2005. The human fossil record. New York: Wiley-Liss.
Wood, Bernard A. 2011. Wiley-Blackwell encyclopedia of human evolution. Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell.
Full-text access to most University of California dissertations filed since 1996 and citations for those filed prior to 1996.
Formerly Biography Resource Center.  Searchable, full-text database of biographies. Search for current and historic figures based on name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates and places, or gender, as well as keyword and full text.

 

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