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Spring 2009 - Prof. Lozada
Questions? Please contact Sara Swanson (704.894.2157)
Reference Resources
Biographies
- Biography Reference Bank. H.W. Wilson, 2003 - .
International Dictionary of Anthropologists. Ed. Christopher Winters. New York: Garland, 1991.
- Women Anthropologists: A Biographical Dictionary. Ed. Ute Gacs et al. New York: Greenwood, 1988.
Encyclopedias and Dictionaries
- Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience. Eds. Kwame Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2005.
Reference R 960.03 A 2581
- Atlas of World Cultures: A Geographical Guide to Ethnographic Literature. David H. Price. Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1989.
Reference Atlas Area R 912.13 P945a
- Cassell’s Peoples, Nations, and Cultures. Ed. John M. MacKenzie. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2005.
- Countries and their Cultures. Eds. Melvin Ember and Carol R. Ember. New York: Macmillan Reference, 2001.
Reference R 306 C855
- Dictionary of Anthropology. Ed. Thomas Barfield. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 1997.
Reference R 306 D554
- Encyclopedia of African History and Culture. Ed. Willie F. Page. New York: Facts on File, 2005.
Reference R 960.03 E56
- Encyclopedia of African Peoples. New York: Facts on File, 2000.
Reference R 305.8 E563
- Encyclopedia of Anthropology. Ed. H. James Birx. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2006.
- Encyclopedia of Contemporary Latin American and Caribbean Cultures. Ed. Daniel Balderston, Mike Gonzaelz, and Ana M. Lopez. New York: Routledge, 2000.
Reference R 972.9 E56
- Encyclopedia of Cultural Anthropology. Eds. David Levinson and Melvin Ember. New York: Henry Holt, 1996.
Reference R 305.8 E56
- Encyclopedia of Food and Culture. Ed. Solomon H. Katz. New York: Scribner, 2003.
Reference R 394.1 E56
- Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture. Ed. Barbara A. Tenebaum. New York: Scribner’s, 1996.
Reference R 980 E56
- Encyclopedia of Modern Asia. Eds. David Levinson and Karen Christensen. New York: Scribner’s, 2002.
Reference R 950 L665e
- Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East & North Africa. Ed. Philip Mattar. 2nd ed. Detroit, MI: Macmillan Reference, 2004.
Reference R 956.03 E561
- Encyclopedia of Religion. Ed. Lindsay Jones. 2nd ed. Detroit: Macmillan Reference, 2005.
Reference R 203 E562 2005
- Encyclopedia of Social and Cultural Anthropology. Eds. Alan Barnard and Jonathan Spencer. New York: Routledge, 1996.
Reference R 305.8 E562
- Encyclopedia of Women and Gender: Sex Similarities and Differences and the Impact on Society of Gender. Ed. Judith Worrell. San Diego: Academic Press, 2001
Reference R 305.4 E56
- Encyclopedia of World Cultures. Eds. Melvin Ember, Carol R. Ember, and Ian Skoggard. New York: Gale Group/Thomson Learning, 2002.
Reference R 306 E56-s
- Ethnic Groups Worldwide: A Ready Reference Handbook. David Levinson. Phoenix: Oryx Press, 1998.
Reference R 305.8 L665et
- An Ethnohistorical Dictionary of China. James S. Olson. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1998.
Reference R 951 O52e
- The Ethnopolitical Encyclopaedia of Europe. Eds. Karl Cordell and Stefan Wolff. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
Reference R 323.1 E84
- Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America. Eds. Judy Galens, Anna Sheets, and Robyn V. Young. Detroit: Gale, 1995.
Reference R 305.8 G151
- International Encyclopedia of Marriage and Family. Ed. James J. Ponzetti, Jr. 2nd ed. New York: Macmillan Reference, 2003.
Reference R 306.8 I61
- International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences. Eds. Neil J. Smelser and Paul B. Baltes. New York: Elsevier, 2001.
Reference R 300.3 I611
- International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences. Ed. William Darity, Jr. 2nd ed. 9 vols. Detroit: MI: Macmillan Reference, 2008.
- Marriage, Family, and Relationships: A Cross-Cultural Encyclopedia. Gwen J. Broude. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 1994.
Reference R 306.8 B875m
- New Encyclopedia of Africa. Ed. John Middleton. Detroit, MI: Scribner’s, 2008.
- The Peoples of Africa: An Ethnohistorical Dictionary. James S. Olson. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996.
Reference R 305.8 O52p
- Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women: Global Women’s Issues and Knowledge. Eds. Cheris Kramarae and Dale Spender. New York: Routledge, 2000.
Reference R 305.4 R689
- Worldmark Encyclopedia of Cultures and Daily Life. Ed. Timothy L. Gall. Detroit: Gale, 1998.
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Style Guides
Finding Books
Library Catalog
Includes information about books, videos, government documents, and journals, magazines, and newspapers in the Library.
To locate appropriate Library of Congress Subject Headings, start with a keyword search and then browse records.
Useful subject headings include:
Anthropology
Ethnology
Manners and customs
Search Syntax
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Phrase Searching: use double quotation marks “ ”.
Wildcard: use a question mark ?.
WorldCat
Lists books, videos, periodicals, and other materials held by libraries around the world. Search WorldCat to identify additional books on your topic and then order the books on interlibrary loan.
Search Syntax
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Phrase Searching: insert a “w” between the words in a phrase (for example, “cold w war”).
Wildcard: use a question mark ?.
Finding Articles
Anthropology Databases
- Annual Review of Anthropology
(1972 to present) Contains the full text of review and overview articles on important topics in anthropology.
Search Syntax
Truncation: use an asterisk *.
Phrase Searching: use double quotoation marks " ".
Wildcard: use a question mark ?
- Anthropology Plus
(late 19th century to the present) Includes citations to journal articles, reports, edited works, and commentaries in the fields of biological, cultural, linguistic, physical, and social anthropology as well as archaeology, ethnology, folklore, and material culture. Combines Anthropological Literature and Anthropological Index from the Royal Anthropological Institute in London.
Search Syntax
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Phrase Searching: insert a "w" between the words in a phrase (for example, "cold w war").
Wildcard: use a question mark ?.
- AnthroSource
(1880 to present) Provides current issues of 15 American Anthropological Association (AAA) journals, including American Anthropologist, American Ethnologist, and Cultural Anthropology, as well as an archive of selected back issues, with links to JSTOR where appropriate.
Search Syntax
Truncation: automatic.
Phrase Searching: use double quotation marks " ".
- Web of Knowledge
(c. 1900 to present) A multidisciplinary resource that provides citations to articles in over 10,000 journals in the social sciences, humanities, and sciences.
Search Syntax
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Phrase Searching: use double quotoation marks " ".
Wildcard: use a question mark ?
Starting Points Databases
- Academic Search Premier
(1975 to present) Indexes popular and scholarly articles in a broad range of subject areas; also includes citation to book reviews and citations to articles in several national newspapers.
Search Syntax
Truncation: use an asterisk *.
Phrase Searching: use double quotoation marks " ".
Wildcard: use a question mark ?
- LexisNexis Academic
(c. 1980 to present) Provides the full text of articles from local, national, and international newspapers, magazines, and trade journals as well as newswires, business information, patents, legal documents, and transcripts of radio and television broadcasts.
Search Syntax
Truncation: use an exclamation point !.
Phrase Searching: use double quotation marks " ".
Wildcard: use an asterisk *.
- OmniFile Full Text Mega
(1982 to present) Indexes articles from over 3,000 scholarly and popular periodicals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences; also includes the full text of selected articles from over 1,650 of these periodicals.
Search Syntax
Truncation: unnecessary when using "All-Smart Search"; otherwise, use an asterisk *.
Phrase Searching: use double quotation marks " ".
Wildcard: do not use with "All-Smart Search"; otherwise, use a question mark ?.
- Westlaw Campus Research
Contains full text news and legal materials. The “News & Information” section contains articles from magazines, national and international newspapers, and business, professional, and trade journals as well as newswires, newsletters, and transcripts of television broadcasts. Note: You will need to accept the terms of the Westlaw “Agreement” before you can search this database.
Search Syntax
Truncation: use an exclamation point !.
Phrase Searching: use double quotation marks " ".
Wildcard: use an asterisk *.
Other Databases
- Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS) Online
(1971 to present) Indexes articles, essays in edited collections, conference proceedings, and other materials on all subjects related to East, Southeast, and South Asia. Also lists books published between 1971 and 1992. International in scope; most citations are to works written in Western languages.
Search Syntax
Phrase Searching: use double quoation marks " ".
Wildcard: use an asterisk *.
- Contemporary Women’s Issues
(1992 to present) Provides the full text of articles from over 130 periodicals, as well as the text of newsletters, reports, pamphlets, fact sheets, and guides on a wide range of gender-related issues.
Search Syntax
Truncation: automatic.
Phrase Searching: automatic.
- Handbook of Latin American Studies (HLAS)
(1935 to present) Indexes journal articles, books, book chapters, and conference papers on topics related to Latin America. Fields covered include anthropology, archaeology, art, economics, geography, history, international relations, language and literature, music, philosophy, political science, and sociology. Produced by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress.
- HAPI: Hispanic American Periodicals Index
(1970 to present) An important source for information about Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean basin, the United States-Mexico border, and Hispanics in the United States. Indexes articles, book reviews, and original literary works published in over 400 journals; covers the fields of anthropology, archaeology, banking and finance, business, drama, economics, ethnography, folklore, geography, history, literature, philosophy, politics, religion, and women’s studies. HAPI cites articles published in English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish.
Search Syntax
Truncation: automatic.
Phrase Searching: automatic.
- JSTOR
A searchable archive of the back issues of major scholarly journals.
Search Syntax
Truncation: use a plus sign +.
Phrase Searching: automatic.
- Latin American Newspapers
(1805 to 1920) Contains digital facsimiles of nineteenth and early twentieth-century Latin American newspapers; the full text of these newspapers, including all articles, advertisements, and other contents, is keyword-searchable. When complete, this database will contain over 35 newspapers; El Mercurio (Chile) is the first paper to be released.
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Phrase Searching: use double quotation marks " ".
Wildcard: use a question mark ?
- Project Muse
(c. mid-1990s to present) A searchable collection of full-text articles from journals published by university and scholarly presses.
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Phrase Searching: use double quotoation marks " ".
- Social Sciences Abstracts
(1907 to present) Indexes articles in over 500 English-language periodicals in the fields of anthropology, communication, corrections, economics, environmental studies, ethics, gender studies, geography, international relations, law, political science, psychology, sociology, and related subjects. Includes the full text of selected articles from 1995 to present.
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Phrase Searching: use double quotation marks " ".
Wildcard: do not use with "All-Smart Search"; otherwise, use a question mark ?.
- Sociological Abstracts
(1963 to present) Provides indexing and abstracting for articles in 1,500 journals and serial publications in the field of sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. Also provides coverage of reviews, monographs, and conference reports in these areas.
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Phrase Searching: automatic.
Wildcard: use a question mark ?
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