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CLIO: Columbia Libraries Online Catalog

CLIO is the online catalog for the Columbia and Barnard libraries. It includes over 4 million records for books, journal or newspaper titles (not articles), online resources, government documents, microforms, sound or video recordings, archival collections, etc.

WorldCat

An online catalog of the collections of 24,000 member libraries of the OCLC consortium, comprising more than 36 million records for books, serials, manuscript collections, audiovisual materials, computer files, and other media.

BorrowDirect

A borrowing service offered by the university libraries of Columbia, Brown, Cornell, Dartmouth, Pennsylvania, Princeton, and Yale. It is designed to allow students, faculty and staff to request (and receive in four days) books directly from each other's collections.

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Annual Review of Anthropology

Full text of the articles in these volumes from vol. 1, 1972 to present.

Art Index

Print version in Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library - N1 Ar756

Citations to articles in over 200 art journals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins, 1984 to the present. Quarterly updates.

ATLA (American Theological Library Association) Religion Database.

Citations to articles, reviews, and books in the fields of religion, theology, and ethics, 1975 to the present, updated monthly.

Anthropological Index Online

An index to anthropological journals currently received by the Museum of Mankind Library (London), which incorporates the former Royal Anthropological Institute library. Coverage 1957 to the present.

Anthropological Literature

Includes citations to articles, reports, commentaries and obituaries in more than 900 journals and monographic series held in Harvard University's Tozzer Library. Coverage late 19th century to the present.

AnthroSource

Includes current and archived issues of the American Anthropological Association's journals and bulletins.

Human Relations Area Files (HRAF) Collection for Archaeology

A collection of full-text information on archaeological traditions from around the world. Coverage 1930s to present.

Human Relations Area Files (HRAF) Collection of Ethnography

A collection of full-text primary source materials on ca. 400 different cultural, ethnic, religious and national groups in the following regions of the world: Asia, Europe, Africa, Middle East, North America, Oceania, Eurasia and South America. Access is via keyword, as well as through geographic (OWC) codes and a topical (OCM) classification scheme.

  JSTOR

A database of selected academic journals, including many in the field of anthropology, such as Annual Review of Anthropology, Anthropology Today, Biennial Review of Anthropology, Current Anthropology, Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Man, Proceedings of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, RAIN, Yearbook of Anthropology. (Click on any of these individual journals for an exclusive search.) It also includes publications in related fields such as Asian studies, ecology, history, and literature, whose content may be relevant to anthropological research. Generally, these files do not include issues published in the last five years.

International Bibliography of the Social Sciences

Core social sciences and related materials from over 100 countries in more than 90 languages. Coverage 1951 to the present.

National Anthropological Archives

"The National Anthropological Archives collects and preserves historical and contemporary anthropological materials that document the world's cultures and the history of the discipline."

  Project MUSE

Current collection of journals in the humanities and history, maintained by Johns Hopkins University Press. Full-text searching available. It also provides access to individual titles within the collection, such as Africa Today, American Imago, Contemporary Pacific, Ethnohistory, and Public Culture, as well as to other interdisciplinary journals which may also prove useful to anthropological research.

Social Sciences Citation Index Expanded

U.S. and international cited references, bibliographic information, some author abstracts, links to full-text. Coverage 1965 to the present.

Social Sciences Full text. 1984- .

Indexes journal articles and book reviews in about 350 English-language periodicals.

Smithsonian Institution: Bureau of American Ethnology (BAE)

Contains all publications by the Bureau dating as far back as a century ago. It includes annual reports, contributions to North American ethnology, publications of the Institute of Social Anthropology, and the Bureau's Bulletins.

Background Information

Anthropology Biography Web

This biography webpage contains descriptions of the life and work of about 400 anthropologists and other scientists that have direct influence on the discipline of anthropology.

Atlas of man. John Gaisford, ed. 1978.

Lehman Reference - GN 378 .A84

Part I is a narrative outline of man's evolution and history that discusses social organization, kinship, politics, economics, language, religion, and ritual. Part II is arranged by world regions, and briefly describes 400 individual cultures. Maps, index, bibliography, and short glossary.

Companion Encyclopedia of anthropology. Ed. by Tim Ingold. 1994.

Lehman Reference - GN 25 .C65 1994

A vademecum to human society, encompassing the disciplines of anthropology, sociology and archaeology. The encyclopedia features 38 scholarly articles organized into three broad categories: humanity, culture, and social life.

Country Studies Area Handbooks, Library of Congress.

Dictionary of anthropology. Ed. by Thomas Barfield. 1997.

Lehman Reference - GN 307 .D485

Directory of anthropological resources in New York City libraries. 1979.

Lehman Reference - Z 5111 .R43

Describes more than 50 academic departments, research institution, and special collection libraries. Indexed by subject and geographical area of interest.

Encyclopaedic profile of Indian tribes. Edited by Sachchidananda R.R. Prasad. 4 vols. 1996.

Lehman Reference - GN 635 .I4 E5 1996.

Signed articles on India's tribes. Arranged alphabetically by name of tribe. Most articles conclude with bibliographic references to further information.Some photographic illustrations. The introduction includes lists, maps and statistical tables.

Encyclopedia of cultural anthropology. 1996. 4v.

Lehman Reference - GN 307 .E52 1996

340 articles in all areas of interest within cultural anthropology, with short bibliographies for many entries. Sponsored by Human Relations Area Files at Yale University.

Encyclopedia of social and cultural anthropology Edited by Alan Barnard and Jonathan

Spencer. 1996.

Lehman Reference - GN 307 .E648 1996g

The Encyclopedia of the peoples of the world. Edited by Amiram Gonen. 1993.

Lehman Reference - GN 495.4 .E53 1993

Alphabetically arranged entries for contemporary peoples and ethnic groups, defined as those having one or more of the following characteristics: common history, distinct language, shared traditions, religion, or folklore, common identity maintained in the face of strong pressures to assimilate, self-designation and territorial concentration.

Encyclopedia of world cultures. 1991-1994. 10v.

Lehman Reference - GN 550 .E53 1991

Contents: v. 1, North America -- v. 2, Oceania -- v. 3, South Asia. -- v.4, Europe (Central, Western, and Southeastern Europe). -- v.5, East and Southeast Asia. -- v. 6, Russia and Eurasia--China. -- v.7, South America. -- v.8, Middle America and the Caribbean. -- v. 9, Africa and the Middle East.-- v. 10, Cumulated indexes, bibliographies and maps. The encyclopedia describes more than 1500 cultural groups. Each volume contains: introductory essay by the volume editor, culture entries, filmography, videography, index and glossary. Entries for culture groups include data on location, cultural relations, settlements, economy, land tenure, kinship, marriage and family, sociopolitical organization, and religion, and concludes with a bibliography.

World Email Directory of Anthropologists

A searchable directory of anthropologists and scholars in related disciplines from around the world. The names and mailing addresses of academic & research institutions, museums, government and private organisations, individual scholars, journals, laboratories, and electronic databases are listed.

Atkinson, Paul et al. Handbook of Ethnography

Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2001.

GN 345 .H365 2001g - Lehman Library Stacks

Alasuutari, Pertti. Researching Culture: Qualitative Method and Cultural Studies. 1995.

Lehman Stacks - GN 345 .A43 1995g.

A textbook in qualitative methods giving concrete research examples.

Doing Ethnographic Research: Fieldwork Settings. Scott Grills, ed. 1998.

Butler Stacks - GN346 .F525 1998

The Ethnographer's Toolkit. Jean J. Schensul and Margaret D. LeCompte, editors. 7 vols.

Walnut Creek, Calif. : AltaMira Press, 1999.

GN 345 .E73 1999g - Lehman Library Stacks

Vol. 1: Designing and Conducting Ethnographic Research

Vol. 2: Essential Ethnographic Methods: Observations, Interviews and Questionnaires

Vol. 3: Enhanced Ethnographic Methods: Audiovisual Techniques, Focused Group Interviews, and Elicitation Techniques

Vol. 4: Mapping Social Networks, Spacial Data, and Hidden Populations

Vol. 5: Analyzing and Interpreting Ethnographic Data

Vol. 6: Researcher Roles and Research Partnerships

Vol. 7: Using Ethnographic Data: Interventions, Public Programming, and Public Policy.

Emerson, Robert M. Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes. 1995.

Lehman Reserves - GN 307.7 .E44 1995

One of many possible approaches to the art of transforming field observation and experience into inspectable texts.

Handbook of Methods in Cultural Anthropology. H. Russell Bernard, ed., c.1998.

Lehman Reference - GN 345 .H37 1998.

Stewart, Alex. The Ethnographer's Method. 1998.

Lehman Stacks - GN 346. .S74 1998.

The work deals with standards by which a good ethnography can be judged.

American Anthropological Association

Centre for Social Anthropology and Computing University of Kent, UK.

Fourth World Documentation Project: Center for World Indigenous Studies

Organized by the Center For World Indigenous Studies (CWIS) in 1992. Its mission is to document and make available to tribal governments, researchers and organizations, important documents relating to the social, political, strategic, economic and human rights situations being faced by Fourth World nations and create an historical archive of the political struggles waged by Indigenous Peoples to assert their rights as sovereign nations. The FWDP gathers documents from nations and organizations around the world and processes them into electronic text for online distribution.

Future of Tropical Rainforest Peoples (FTRP)

This multi-disciplinary project sponsored by the European Community aims to investigate and document the future of the peoples of the rainforest. The major input is from anthropologists.

Mayan Epigraphic Database Project University of Virginia

The project's goal is to assemble, display, and distribute a Mayan hieroglyphic image collection.

National Science Foundation: Cultural Anthropology Program.

Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland

Society for Economic Anthropology.

Society for Latin American Anthropology.

Society for the Anthropology of Europe (SAE).

Ancient Mesoamerican Civilizations

Bibliographical references and links to a variety of sites that explore Mesoamerican subjects.

Anthropological Stock Photography

Provides a free gallery of people, maps, history, culture, and much more, all of which is searchable by keyword.

Documentary Educational Resources (DER)

Dedicated to the production, distribution and promotion of quality ethnographic and documentary films from around the world. This site contains descriptions of their films and ordering information.

Ethnographic Studies Resources

Links to general internet sources, directories, scholarly programs, societies and organizations, archival collections, grants, journals, and other resources for research in anthropology, ethnomusicology, and folklore.

Ur-List: Web Resources for Visual Anthropology