This guide was designed by Alyse Ergood to help identify resources on Cultural Anthropology and related topics in the FAU Boca Raton Library. The electronic resources are available from the FAU Libraries home page by following the links entitled Indexes/ Databases. Some of these resources have full-text articles available online. To access these resources from off campus, use the the Off Campus Connect link (formerly EZ Proxy) and log in using your 14-digit Owl Card number. For further assistance, please contact the Reference Desk by telephone (561-297-3785), use our Online Chat service or send an e-mail lyref@fau.edu.



                                                                                          SUBJECT HEADINGS

When using the library catalog to look for books and other materials, you may want to do a "Subject" search and use the following Library of Congress subject headings.  This is not a complete list. 

                                                                                            Anthropology
                                                                                            Cultural anthropology   
                                                                                            Ethnology
                                                                                            Ethnography
                                                                                            Social life and customs
                                                                                            Ethnopsychology
                                                                                            Field work
                                                                                            Methodology--anthropology
                                                                                            Participant observation
                                                                                            Material culture


*Locating materials in the S.E. Wimberly Library*
Feel free to walk through the stacks; sometimes the best books are found by browsing.  These call numbers provide the general location of materials related to Cultural anthropology. 

                                                                        GN                              Anthropology (general)
                                                                        GN301-674                 Ethnology. Social and cultural anthropology
                                                                        GN357-367                 Culture and cultural processes
                                                                                                             Including social change, structuralism, diffusion
                                                                        GN378-396                 Collected ethnographies 
                                                                        GN397-397.7              Applied anthropology
                                                                        GN406-517                 Cultural traits, customs, and institutions
                                                                        GN537-674                 Ethnic groups




                                                                           ELECTRONIC DATABASES 

Each database contains a collection of journal articles, abstracts and primary sources.  Search individual databases to find your references and research.  
 

Academic OneFile
Academic OneFile is the premier source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources with extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects.  Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995.
  Alternative Press Index (AltPressIndex)
Indexes journals covering cultural, economic, political and social change from 1991 to present.
  Anthropology Plus
Anthropology Plus brings together into one resource the highly respected Anthropological Literature from Harvard University and Anthropological Index, Royal Anthropological Institute from the UK. Anthropology Plus provides extensive worldwide indexing of journal articles, reports, commentaries, edited works, and obituaries in the fields of social, cultural, physical, biological, and linguistic anthropology, ethnology, archaeology, folklore, material culture, and interdisciplinary studies. The index offers excellent coverage of all core periodicals in the field in addition to local and lesser-known journals. Coverage is from the late 19th century to the present.
  AnthroSource  
 Provides digital access to current issues regarding 11 of the AAA's most critical peer-reviewed publications including American Anthropologist, American Ethnologist, Anthropology and Education Quarterly, Anthropology and Humanism, Archaeological Publications of the American Anthropological Association, Cultural Anthropology, Ethos, Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Medical Anthropology Quarterly, NAPA Bulletin and PoLAR: The Political and Legal Anthropology Review; A complete electronic archive of all AAA journals through 2003; Seamless access to archival content housed at JSTOR for key AAA publications; Newsletters and bulletins.
  Art Index Full Text
Subjects include Advertising Art, Antiques, Archaeology, Architecture and Architectural History, Art History, Crafts, Decorative Arts, Folk Art, Graphic Arts, Industrial Design, Interior Design, Landscape Architecture, Motion Pictures, Museology, Non-Western Art, Painting, Photography, Pottery, Sculpture, Television, and Textiles. Full-text coverage for Art Index with Full Text begins in 1997.
 

Current Contents Connect
A multidisciplinary resource, providing access to complete bibliographic information of over 8,000 of the world's leading scholarly journals and more than 2,000 books. With the release of CC Connect® version 1.6, users can also search a premium collection of evaluated scholarly Web sites through ISI Current Web Contents™.

 
EthnicNewsWatch and EthnicNewsWatch: A History
Provides in-depth coverage of a wide range of current and historical topics. It is searchable in both English and Spanish, with titles in both languages. Includes African-American, Caribbean/African, Arab/Middle Eastern, Asian/Pacific Island, European/Eastern European, Hispanic, Jewish, and Native American ethnic publications.
 
Expanded Academic ASAP
Includes scholarly journals, news magazines and newspaper articles regarding arts and humanities, social sciences and science and technology disciplines.
 
Handbook of Latin American Studies
A bibliography on Latin America consisting of works selected and annotated by scholars. Edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress, the multidisciplinary Handbook alternates annually between the social sciences and the humanities. Each year, more than 130 academics from around the world choose over 5,000 works for inclusion in the Handbook.
Human Relations Area Files
A unique cross-cultural database, HRAF contains more than a quarter of a million pages of descriptive information on the cultures of the world. The full-text materials are subject-indexed at the paragraph-level for precise retrieval of information on all aspects of cultural and social life. These materials are relevant to the various social science disciplines.
InfoTrac OneFile
Search humanities, education, business, science, current events, art, politics, economics, social science, law, health care, computers, technology, environmental issues, and general interest topics.
JSTOR
Provides full-text full image access to over sixty journal titles from the inception of the titles up to within the past five years. Covers African American Studies, Anthropology, Asian Studies, Ecology, Economics, Education, Finance, History, Literature, Mathematics, Philosophy, Political Science, Population Studies, Sociology and Statistics.
Kluwer Online
Kluwer Online is electronic access to the journals published by Kluwer which incorporates the imprints of Kluwer Academic Publishers (including the former science and technology titles under International Thompson/Chapman & Hall), Kluwer Law International, Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers and Kluwer Academic/Human Sciences Press (both formerly published under the Plenum imprint). Includes over 600 journals along with searching capabilities, abstracts, and full-text back to 1987.
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts
Assists both generalists and specialists in keeping abreast of cutting-edge developments in disciplines concerned with the nature and use of language. The database covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. Complete coverage is also given to various fields of linguistics including descriptive, historical, comparative, theoretical and geographical linguistics.
netLibrary
A collection of over 20,000 online full-text nonfiction electronic books ranging from Cliffs Notes to travel guides to computer programming manuals.
OmniFile Full Text Mega Edition
Wilson OmniFile Full Text, Mega Edition is a multi-disciplinary database providing the complete content - indexing, abstracts, and full text - from six of Wilson's full-text databases: Education Full Text, General Science Full Text, Humanities Full Text, Readers' Guide Full Text, Social Sciences Full Text, and Wilson Business Full Text. Full-text articles from five additional periodical databases are also included when available: Applied Science & Technology Full Text, Art Full Text, Biological & Agricultural Index, Index to Legal Periodicals & Books, and Library Literature amp; Information Science Full Text. Full-text coverage begins in 1994. Each database has its own start dates for indexing, abstracting, and full text; start dates for full-text rights to individual journals vary within a database.
Periodicals Archive Online
Provides indexing for the contents of older issues of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences dating back to 1770. Complete tables of contents are included for each issue of each journal. Includes journals in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and other Western languages. Contains some full text articles.
 
ProQuest Digital Dissertations
Authoritative source for information about U.S. doctoral dissertations and master's theses. This database represents the work of authors from over 1,000 graduate schools and universities.
Social Sciences Full Text
Subject areas include addiction studies, anthropology, area studies, community health and medical care, corrections, criminal justice, criminology, economics, environmental studies, ethics, family studies, gender studies, geography, gerontology, international relations, law, minority studies, planning and public administration, policy sciences, political science, psychiatry, psychology, public welfare, social work, sociology, and urban studies.  Full text coverage begins in January 1995.
Web of Science-Social Science Citation Index
A multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the social sciences. It indexes 1,144 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals, as well as covering individually selected, relevant items from over 6,800 major science and social science journals.

WorldCat Dissertations and Theses 
Provides access to over 5 million records of dissertations and theses available in OCLC member libraries catalogs in the WorldCat database. Many theses are available electronically, at no charge, directly from the publishing institution.

                                                                                                                  
DICTIONARIES AND ENCYCLOPEDIAS

REF
PN2041.A57
Barba, Euginio and Nicola Savares.  A dictionary of theatre anthropology:  the secret art of the performer.  1991.
REF GN307.D485 Barfield, Thomas, ed. The dictionary of anthropology.  1999.
REF GN20.G3513 Gerald, Gaillard.  The Routledge dictionary of anthropologists.  2004. 
REF
GN307.W56
Winthrop, Robert H.  Dictionary of concepts in cultural anthropology.  1991.
REF GN307.E648 Barnard, Alan and Jonathon Spencer,eds.  Encyclopedia of social and cultural anthropology.  1996.
REF GN11.E63 Birx, H. James, ed.  Encyclopedia of anthropology.  2006.
REF GN307.E52 Levinson, David and Melvin Ember, eds.  Encyclopedia of cultural anthropology.  1996.
REF GN25.C65 Ingold, Tim, ed.  Companion encyclopedia of anthropology.  1994.
REF GN710.E53 Peregrine, Peter N. and Melvin Ember, eds.  Encyclopedia of prehistory.  2001. 
REF GN406.H36 Tilley, Christopher Y.  Handbook of material culture.  2006.
REF DT2.E53 Vogel, Joseph, ed.   Encyclopedia of pre-colonial Africa:  archaeology, history, languages, cultures and environments.  1997. 

GUIDES

Electronic book Davies, Charlotte Aull.  Reflexive ethnography [electronic resource]: a guide to researching selves and others.  2002.
REF GN345.5.D87 Durrenberger, E. Paul and Suzan Erem, eds.  Anthropology unbound:  a field guide to the 21st century.  2007. 
REF Z5111.K53 Kibbee, Josephine Z.  Cultural anthropology: a guide to reference and information sources.  1991.
GN316 .R37 2000 Rapport, Nigel and Joanna Overing.  Social and cultural anthropology:  the key concepts.  2000.

SELECTED WEB SITES

American Anthropological Association Homepage
Anthropological Index Online
Anthropology at UPenn
Anthropology in the News
Anthropology Resources on the Internet
ARD:Anthropology Review Database
Florida Department of State Historical Resources Web Site.
National Anthropological Archives
Theory in Anthropology
UCSB Links to Anthropology Web Sites
Voice of the Shuttle
VOS Anthropology Page

 

ELECTRONIC JOURNALS  

Off Campus access through Off Campus Connect (EZ-Proxy)

African studies review JSTOR
Project Muse
1958 to 2003
2005 to Present
American anthropologist JSTOR
1888 to 1999
1997 to Present
American ethnologist JSTOR
AnthroSource
1974 to 1999
1997 to Present
Annual review of anthropology JSTOR
 
1972 to 2001
 
Anthropological quarterly EBSCO
ProQuest
1990 to Present
1928 to 1995
Anthropology today JSTOR
Blackwell Humanities & Social Sciences Collection
1985 to 2001
2000 to Present
City and society AnthroSource 1987 to Present
Critique of anthropology SAGE 1999 to Present
Cultural anthropology JSTOR
AnthroSource
1986 to 1999
1997 to Present
Current anthropology EBSCO
JSTOR
1990 to Present
1959 to 1999
Ethnography SAGE 2000 to 2007
Ethnology JSTOR
EBSCO
1962 to 2001
1990 to Present
Field Methods SAGE 1998 to Present
Human organization ProQuest 1996 to Present
Journal of Latin American anthropology AnthroSource 1976; 1989 to Present
Journal of material culture SAGE 1996 to Present
Theory, culture and society SAGE 1982 to Present

 

PRINT PERIODICALS

American anthropologist GN1.A5 1888 to 2005 (Incomplete holdings)
Anthropologica E78.C2.A53 1955 to Present
Anthropology and humanism GN1.A672 1993 to 2005
Anthropological theory GN33.A442 2001 to 2004
Anthropology and education quarterly LB45.A573 1986 to 2004
Curator QH70.C8 1988 to 2004
Field Methods GN1.F54 2001 to 2004
Journal of contemporary ethnography HT101 .U677 1987 to 2003
Urban anthropology HT101.U6723 1973 to 1984


MISCELLANEOUS

REF GN307 .C68 Ember, Melvin and Carol R. Ember, eds.  Countries and their cultures.  2001.
REF GN11.P 43 Pearson, Roger.  Anthropological glossary. 1985.
GN41.8 .U58 Segal, Daniel A. and Sylvia J. Yanagisako, eds.  Unwrapping the sacred bundle: reflections on the disciplining of anthropology.  2005.
GN495.4.T75 Trimble, Joseph E. and Celia B. Fisher, eds.  The handbook of ethical research with ethnocultural populations & communities.  2006.

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