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Cultural Anthropology Resources

Articles (Online Databases)

Internet Resources

Books

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Online Databases

If journal articles are needed, try using the online databases (links below). We suggest Academic Search Premier, ProQuest Research Library, Wilson Select Plus and Expanded Academic ASAP for this topic to retreive citations and/or full text articles from many different nursing journals.

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Academic Search Premier (EBSCOhost): 1965-Present
This is an upgraded, expanded version of Academic Search Elite. Indexes journal articles in the social sciences, humanities, general sciences and education. Nearly 8200 journals are indexed and over 4600 of those include the full text.

ProQuest: 1985-Present 
Use this database to find information on general topics in the sciences, social sciences, 
and humanities as well as news about companies and current events. Some full-text 
and graphics are available. 

Wilson Select Plus (FirstSearch): 1993-Present
Search over 1,500 periodical abstracts and full-text articles from the following 
Wilson databases: Readers' Guide Abstracts, Social Sciences Abstracts, Humanities 
Abstracts, General Science Abstracts and Wilson Business Abstracts. 

Expanded Academic ASAP: 1995-Present
This first database listed in InfoTrac indexes information on astronomy, 
religion, law, history, psychology, humanities, current events, sociology, communications,
and general sciences. Some full-text is available. Updated daily.  For an upgraded version of this database, use InfoTrac OneFile.

Some journals that are especially good for anthropology topics include the following:

To see which databases have the full text of these journals, search for the journal title on the Find Articles Full Text Online page.

Internet Resources

 

Human Culture Internet Sites

Anthro.Net
This research engine contains thousands of reviewed web sites and bibliographic references.

University of Delaware Library Internet Sources for Social and Cultural Anthropology (annotated)

Yahoo! Subject Directory: Cultures
Information on various cultures grouped by region.

Cultural Anthropology Links (Geocities)

Cultural Anthropology - Social Anthropology - Directory of Online Resources
From Academic Info. Annotated.

Anthropology Resources on the Internet
A collection of links to more information from the American Anthropological Association.

 

Books

To locate books about cultural anthropology available at the USF Library use Illinet, the library's online catalog. Click on Browse Subject and type anthropology as a search term. Distance students may request any title from the library's general collection to be sent to them by using the library's interlibrary loan service. Books available from any of the other libraries that share the Illinet Online catalog, students may request directly through the online catalog using their library barcode. These items will be shipped to distance students (students are responsible for return postage). Distance students may also want to explore the collections at their local libraries.

netLibrary is another possible source of information. This is a collection of books in electonic format. Users may search by author, title or keyword. Click here for more infomation about using netLibrary and to access the collection. The following are some titles that may be useful:

  1. Elusive Culture : Schooling, Race, and Identity in Global Times (eBook)
    SUNY Series, Identities in the Classroom
    by Yon, D. A.
    Publication: Albany State University of New York Press, 2000

  2. Non-Western Educational Traditions : Alternative Approaches to Educational Thought and Practice (eBook)
    by Reagan, Timothy G.
    Publication: Mahwah, N.J. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., 2000.

  3. Evolution of Sickness and Healing (eBook)
    by Fabrega, Horacio.
    Publication: Berkeley University of California Press, 1999.

Last updated: March 12, 2008