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This Subject Guide contains links to a few key indexes in Anthropology plus significant online resources and print materials housed in the Library’s first floor reference section. Web Resources below contains links to sites with substantial academic content. These may assist you on research papers and other class assignments as well as lead to additional useful sites. Look at the Library's Databases for many other valuable scholarly databases in the social sciences, arts, and humanities. For more web resources, try a Google Scholar search with appropriate keywords for your specific needs.

Liaison

Liaison in charge: Hope Yelich

Research: Getting Started @ Swem

Database/Article Indexes

• Anthropology Plus
• JSTOR
• Project Muse

Print Resources

Background Information

• Cambridge Encyclopedia of Human Evolution
• Collins Dictionary of Archaeology
• Companion Encyclopedia of Anthropology
• Dictionary of Anthropology
• Dictionary of Concepts in Physical Anthropology
• Encyclopedia of Cultural Anthropology
• Encyclopedia of Social and Cultural Anthropology
• Encyclopedia of World Cultures
• Ethnic Groups Worldwide: A Ready Reference Handbook
• History of Physical Anthropology: An Encyclopedia
• Oxford Companion to Archaeology

Research Guides

• Annual Review of Anthropology
• Cultural Anthropology: A Guide to Reference and Information Sources
• Fieldwork in the Library:  A Guide to Research in Anthropology and Related Area Studies
• International Bibliography of Social and Cultural Anthropology
• Introduction to Library Research in Anthropology
• Social Sciences: A Cross-disciplinary Guide to Selected Sources

Web Resources

• American Anthropological Association
  This link from the American Anthropological Association homepage takes you to the Association's "Anthropology Resources on the Internet" site which lists some of the largest and most up-to-date sites" on the Internet. "These sites are good places to a begin investigating the enormous wealth of anthropological materials now available on the Internet."
• Anthropology Collection Database
• Searchable collection, from the Department of Anthropology at the California Academy of Sciences, contains about 17,000 objects and consists of ethnographic and archaeological materials of indigenous cultures of western North America (exclusive of Mexico), the Pacific Rim, East Asia, East Africa, the Middle East, Europe, and Central and South America. Work on this project is on-going.
• UCSB Anthropology Web Sites
  The Anthropology Department at the University of California at Santa Barbara is responsible for this collection of web sites. The list is extensive and well organized and includes more than 400 sites of anthropological interest.
• WWW Virtual Library: Anthropology
  Maintained by Anthro TECH, a consulting firm founded by Eliott Lee, who sought to combine his Masters in Applied Cultural Anthropology with an interest in computers, this directory promotes a wide range of anthropological web sites that Lee has selected and reviewed.