Journal Articles
A multidisciplinary database with full-text
articles. You can find scholarly articles by checking the box to the left of the option, "Scholarly
(Peer-Reviewed) Journals".
Identifying Books in the
library catalog
To find items on a specific aspect of
Anthropology, do a Keyword search for Anthropology and keywords related to your topic. For
example:
Reference Books
Online through
Gale Virtual Reference
Library
Birx, H. James, Ed. Encyclopedia
of Anthropology. Thousand Oaks: Sage Reference, 2006. 2373 pp. 5 vols. Gale Virtual Reference
Library. Thomson Gale.
Ember,
Carol, and Melvin Ember, Eds. Encyclopedia of Medical Anthropology: Health and Illness in the World's
Cultures. New York: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004. 1071 pp. Gale Virtual Reference Library.
Ember, Carol, and Melvin Ember, Eds. Encyclopedia of Sex and
Gender: Men and Women in the World's Cultures. New York: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003. 1037 pp. Gale
Virtual Reference Library. Thomson Gale.
Levinson, David, and Timothy O'Leary, Eds. Encyclopedia of World
Cultures. New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 1996. 3877 pp. 10 vols. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Thomson
Gale.
Web Sites
The American Folklife Center
Resources in Ethnographic Studies
(after
clicking on library catalog link, you will be directed to the CCA Library
catalog page)
The American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress was
created by Congress in 1976 "to preserve and present American Folklife". The Center incorporates the
Archive of Folk Culture, which was established at the Library in 1928 as a repository for American folk
music.
Guide to authoritative websites on Anthropology compiled by the
Library of Congress. Good starting point for research.