Anthropology

• PUL Databases
• Internet Indexes, Databases, Bibliographies
• Tutorials
• Societies, Associations
• Lists of Resources
• Archaeology
• Cultural/Social
• Physical
• Linguistics
• Other Resources

Selected Purdue Libraries Databases for Anthropology

Anthropology Plus: indexes over 2500 journals in social, cultural, physical, biological, and linguistic anthropology, ethnology, archaeology, folklore, and interdisciplinary studies. Academic Search Elite: (General database with some major Anthropology journals)Provides access to articles from journals, magazines, and newspapers in a wide range of subject areas. Features abstracts and indexes for over 3000 publications, approximately 1700 are peer-reviewed journals. Over 1200 publications are available in full text. The coverage is from 1984 to present; with fulltext articles from1990 to present. American Periodicals Series online: over 1,240 American magazines and journals that began publishing between 1740 and 1900, including general magazines, literary and professional journals, and other historically-significant periodicals. For periodicals that continued into the 20th c., the cut-off date is 1940. American History and Culture Online: Sabin Americana, 1500-1926 is the correct title for this database ["Sabin Americana Collection"]: searchable full-text of works about the Americas published throughout the world from 1500 to the early 1900's. Included are books, pamphlets and other documents about North, Central and South America, including accounts of exploration, trade, colonialism, Native Americans, and much more. Based on Joseph Sabin's Bibliotheca Americana. Animal Behavior Abstracts: Animal Behavior Abstracts identifies significant papers relevant to animal behavior, summarizing the results of both field and laboratory inquiries. It surveys all of the important journals dealing with the biology of particular taxonomic groups. Major areas of coverage include: aggression; anatomical correlates; applied ethology; avoidance learning; behavioral ecology; biological and biochemical correlates; brain lesions; brain stimulation (electrical and chemical); communication; complex learning; discrimination; learning; dominance; evolution and survival value; external stimulation; foraging and ingestion; genetics of behavior; habituation and extinction; hormones; locomotion; memory; methodology; motivation; navigation; neurophysiological correlates; ontogeny; orientation; navigation and migration; parental-filial behavior; reinforcement (positive); rhythms; selected drug studies; sexual and reproductive behavior; sleep; social behavior; social spacing; theoretical models and overviews; and visual stimulation. Updated monthly. Black Studies Center: fully cross-searchable combination of three resources: Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, International Index to Black Periodicals (IIBP), and The Chicago Defender (1935-1975). Directory of Published Proceedings: DoPP provides information on locating and procuring published proceedings from conferences in many fields, including sciences, medicine, ecology, and humanities. Eighteenth Century Collections online: full-text searchable facsimile pages of approximately 150,000 English-language and foreign-language books published in Britain and its colonies (including N. America) during the 18th century, 1701-1800. Index Islamicus: indexes literature on Islam, the Middle East and the Muslim world. Over 3,000 journals are monitored for inclusion in the database, together with conference proceedings, monographs, multi-authored works and book reviews. Women and Social Movements in the US 1600-2000: books, letters, images, scholarly essays, commentaries, and bibliographies documenting American women’s reform activities from the colonial period into the 20th century. GeoRef: (Early humans and Archaeology) The premier database from the American Geological Institute, is the most comprehensive database in the geosciences and continues to grow by more than 80,000 references a year. The GeoRef database covers the geology of North America from 1785 to the present and the geology of the rest of the world from 1933 to the present. The database includes references to all publications of the U.S. Geological Survey. Masters' theses and doctoral dissertations from U.S. and Canadian universities are also covered. To maintain the database, GeoRef regularly scans more than 3,500 journals in 40 languages as well as new books, maps, and reports. Each month between 6,000 and 7,000 new references are added to the database. HRAF~ eHRAF Collection of Ethnography: (Cultural Anthropology and Linguistics) This database published annually by Human Relations Area Files (HRAF), is a full-text, fully-indexed cultural database. It focuses on mostly pre-industrial cultures from around the world, and on North American immigrant groups. eHRAF differs from and other databases because the documents (e.g. books, journal articles, dissertations) are indexed at the paragraph-level with over 700 subject codes from the Outline of Cultural Materials (OCM). Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts: (Linguistics) This database covers a wide range of disciplines, including language, linguistics, acoustics, anthropology, communications, comparative literature, education, ethnology, information science, medicine, psychiatry, psychology and philosophy. Coverage is 1973 to present. MasterFILE Premier:(General database with some major Anthropology journals) Provides access to articles from nearly 2800 general magazines and periodicals. Over 1800 publications are available in full text. The coverage ranges from 1984 to present; with fulltext access ranging from 1990 to present. OmniFile Full Text Mega: (General database with some major Anthropology journals. Combines the Social Sciences Abstracts and the Humanities Abstracts with other databases.) This database provides cover-to-cover indexing for 492 key international English language periodicals in the Social Sciences and 500 English language periodicals in the Humanities. It is updated weekly with coverage from 1983 to the present. Abstracting begins with material in 1994. ProQuest Research Library: (General database with some major Anthropology journals) A general database of magazine, journal, and newspaper articles from approximately 2350 publications in a wide variety of subject areas. The database consists of two components: a core list of about 740 periodicals, and 15 subject-specific modules in the areas of Arts, Business, Children, Education, General Interest, Health, Humanities, International, Law, Military, Multicultural, Psychology, Sciences, Social Sciences, and Women's Interests. Any combination of modules may be searched simultaneously. Searches may be limited to only peer reviewed titles or only newspapers. Many articles are available in full-text, full image format. The coverage begins in 1986. Web of Science: (Anthropology in General) Web of Science includes Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index Expanded, and Social Sciences Citation Index. Collectively, these indexes cover 8,700 scholarly and technical journals completely and 13,300 selectively, in more than 230 disciplines. The Web of Science gateway allows searching the indexes singly or in combination. Features include cited reference searching, access to records related to a particular article, and number of times an article has been cited. Coverage extends back to 1977.

Selected Free Internet Indexes, Databases, Bibliographies

• Anthropology Review Database: A guide to reviews of recently published Anthropological literature.
• Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies: (Australian National University, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) this database is a catalogue of electronic data files held in ASEDA: the Aboriginal Studies Electronic Data Archive.
• Biographies of Anthropologists: A guide to the careers of numerous anthropologists developed by anthropology students at Minnesota State University, Mankato.
• Bureau of American Ethnology: An index to the publications of the Smithsonian Institution's Bureau of American Ethnology.
• Digital Himalaya: The Digital Himalaya project was conceived of Professor Alan Macfarlane and Mark Turinas a strategy for archiving and making available valuable ethnographic materials from the Himalayan region. Based jointly at the Department of Social Anthropology at Cambridge University and the Anthropology Department at Cornell University, the project began in December 2000. The Digital Himalaya project has three primary objectives: 1. to preserve in a digital medium archival anthropological materials from the Himalayan region that are quickly degenerating in their current forms, including films in various formats, still photographs, sound recordings, field notes and rare journals, 2. to make these resources available over broadband internet connections, coupled with an accurate search and retrieval system useful to contemporary researchers and students, 3. to make these resources available on DVD to the descendants of the people from whom the materials were collected by making them both easily transportable and viewable in a digital medium.
• Ethnologue.com: (SIL International) A database concerning the languages of the world.
• Library Research in Anthropology: Purdue University Libraries: A library research guide containing electronic database links, traditional paper resources and internet resources created and maintained by David M. Hovde and intended for Purdue students.
• National Anthropological Archives: A guide to the anthropological archives of the National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Institution.
• PrimateLit: The Wisconsin Primate Research Center and the Washington National Primate Research Center provide bibliographic access to the scientific literature on nonhuman primates for the research and educational communities. Coverage of the database spans 1940 to present and includes all publication categories (articles, books, abstracts, technical reports, dissertations, book chapters, etc.) and many subject areas.
• Southeast Asian Archaeology Scholarly Website: (University of Pennsylvania Museum) A fully searchable database for the dissemination of scholarship on the archaeology and anthropology of Southeast Asia.
• UN-Habitat: The United Nations Human Settlements Programme, UN-HABITAT, is the United Nations agency for human settlements. It is mandated by the UN General Assembly to promote socially and environmentally sustainable towns and cities with the goal of providing adequate shelter for all.

Tutorials

• Kinship and Social Organization: A hypertext tutorial on kinship and social organization created and maintained by Brian Schwimmer of the Department of Anthropology, University of Manitoba.
• Library Research in Anthropology: Purdue University Libraries: A library research guide created and maintained by David M. Hovde and intended for Purdue students.
• Anthropology Tutorials: Palomar College: This site offers a basic tutorial for Cultural and Physical Anthropology.
• A Guide to Library Research in Cultural Anthropology: University of Alabama

Scholarly Societies and Associations

• American Anthropological Association
The Royal Anthropological Institite of Great Britain and Ireland The Society for the Anthropology of Europe (SAE) Web Site at H-Net The Society for Applied Anthropology Plains Anthropological Society American Ethnological Society Society for Cultural Anthropology Society for Medical Anthropology Association for Political and Legal Anthropology High Plains Society for Applied Anthropology American Association of Physical Anthropologists Linguistic Society of America Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas
• Other International Organizations
  United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
  Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organizations (UNPO)
  
  

Links to Lists of Resources

• Anthro.Net: This database contains thousands of reviewed web sites and bibliographic references.
• Anthropology Resources on the Internet: From the American Anthropological Association.
• AnthroTech: An extensive well organized list of links from AnthroTech.
• EMuseum: An encyclopedic collection of information from anthropology students at Minnesota State University, Mankato presented as if you were walking through an Anthropology museum.

Archaeology

Archaeology: Provided by Purdue University Libraries.

Cultural/Social

• Ethnography and Anthropology: Part of the Social Science Information Gateway. The service aims to provide a trusted source of selected, high quality Internet information for researchers and practitioners in the social sciences, business and law. It is part of the UK Resource Discovery Network.
• Social and Cultural Anthropology: University of Delaware: An extensive guide to Social and Cultural web-based resources.
• Social and Cultural Anthropology: University of Amsterdam: An extensive guide to Social and Cultural web-based resources.

Physical Anthropology

• Physical Anthropology Web Resources (Canadian Association of Physical Anthropology / L'Association Canadienne D'Anthropologie Physique)
• Physical Anthropology: U of California, Santa Barbara

Linguistics

• Linguistics: Provided by Purdue University Libraries
Linguistic Resources on the Internet: A topically organized list of resources elsewhere on the Internet that may be of interest to the linguist from SIL International.
• Linguistics: A Guide to Internet Resources: The University of Delaware Library.