Library Guide to Anthropology

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To Find Books

Use the MERLIN Library Catalog and the MOBIUS Union Catalog to find resources relevant to your research. Relevant works can be found using subject headings (Library of Congress) such as:

• Acculturation
• Anthropology, Prehistoric
• Anthropology - Methodology
• Anthropology - Research
• Applied Anthropology
• Archaeology
• Ethnology
• Folklore
• Folklore and Children
• Physical Anthropology
• Urban Anthropology

To find the location of a book in Miller Nichols Library, see the Location Guide.

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To Find Articles

Remote (off-campus) access to databases is available only to UMKC students, faculty, and staff. All other users must access online resources within the Libraries. Begin searching by selecting a database. After selection you will be prompted to provide a UMKC Single Sign-On user name and password OR a 9-digit UMKC ID number followed by the letter k (example: 0123456789k) and last name, as needed.

• Abstracts in Anthropology 1970-present.
  Ref GN1 .A15
• Current Contents (Ovid) July 1993 - present.   
  Note: This database is no longer available.
• Historical Abstracts (EBSCOhost) 1954 - present.     Save to del.icio.us
  Selected full text 1954 - present.
  Indexes and abstracts articles on the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada). Link to History Abstracts user's guide.
• Humanities Index (1974-1997)
  Ref Z5579 .H8
• ISI Web of Science
  Note: This database is no longer available.
  Permits multidisciplinary searching for articles from international academic journals in the sciences, social sciences, and the arts and humanities. This combined database for the Science Citation Index, the Social Sciences Citation Index, and the Arts & Humanities Citation Index offers cited reference searching. Link to ISI Web of Science user's guide.
• Social Sciences Citation Index 1966-present.
  4th Floor Index Z7161 .S65
• MLA International Bibliography (Chadwyck-Healey) 1884 - present.     Save to del.icio.usAn index to scholarship in literature, linguistics, film, folklore, and cultural studies. The print version of this bibliography is available in the Miller Nichols Library and covers 1921 - 1999. The location and call number are Reference Index Wall Z7006 .M64. See the MLA Directory of Periodicals for a list of periodicals indexed.
• Social Sciences Index (1974-1997)
  Ref Index Wall 2 Z7161 .S6
• Sociological Abstracts (CSA) 1963 - present.     Save to del.icio.us
  "CSA Sociological Abstracts abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. The database provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,809 serials publications, and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers. Records added since 1973 contain in-depth and nonevaluative abstracts of journal articles. Major areas of coverage include: culture and social structure; demography and human biology; economic development; environmental interactions; evaluation research; family and social welfare; health and medicine and law; history and theory of sociology; management and complex organizations; mass phenomena and political interactions; methodology and research technology; policy, planning, forecast and speculation; radical sociology; religion and science; rural and urban sociology; social development; social differentiation; social psychology and group interaction; sociology of the arts, business, education; studies in violence and power; substance abuse and addiction; welfare services; and women's studies." [Source: Sociological Abstracts Factsheet, accessed February 17, 2005]

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Selected Journals

This list includes journals available in the University Libraries (check the MERLIN Library Catalog for holdings and location information). To identify additional related journals, search MERLIN by subject or keyword.

Print Journals Available at Miller Nichols Library:

(Links to electronic versions, if available, are found in the library record of the journal.)

• American Anthropologist
• Applied Anthropology
• Biennial Review of Anthropology
• Current Anthropology
• Journal of Anthropological Research
• Journal of Contemporary Ethnography
• Medical Anthropology (This journal held at the UMKC Health Sciences Library)
• Practical Anthropology
• Urban Anthropology

Electronic Journals on the Web:

• Anthropoetics: The Journal of Generative Anthropology
  (www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/anthropoetics/home.html)
• Archaeology
  (www.he.net/~archaeol/index.html)
• Baker Aerial Archaeology and Aerial Archaeology Newsletter
  (www.nmia.com/~jaybird/AANewsletter/)
• British Archaeology
  (www.britarch.ac.uk/ba/ba.html)
• Current Archaeology
  (www.archaeology.co.uk/)
• The Edge: The E-Journal of Intercultural Relations
  (www.interculturalrelations.com/Resources/TheEdge.htm)
• Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies
  (www.uib.no/jais/jais.htm)
• Journal of Political Ecology: Case Studies in History and Society
  (jpe.library.arizona.edu/)
• Journal of World Anthropology
  (wings.buffalo.edu/academic/department/anthropology/JWA/)
• Music and Anthropology: Journal of Mediterranean Musical Anthropology
  (www.research.umbc.edu/eol/MA/index.htm)
• Theoretical Anthropology
  (ezines.onb.ac.at:8080/www.univie.ac.at/Voelkerkunde/theoretical-anthropology/welcome.html)

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Reference Sources: Encyclopedias, Human Relations Area Files

Reference sources are useful for locating background information, definitions, general descriptions, and basic facts. Use these books to help you select or focus your research topic.

All call numbers in this guide refer to the UMKC Miller Nichols Library, unless otherwise noted. Titles are linked to the corresponding MERLIN Library Catalog record.

Companion Encyclopedia of Anthropology	Ref GN25 .C65
Encyclopedia of Cultural Anthropology	Ref GN307 .E52
Encyclopedia of World Cultures	Ref GN307 .E53
Folklore: An Encyclopedia of Beliefs, Customs, Tales, Music, and Art	Ref GR35 .F63

HRAF (Human Relations Area Files)

HRAF (Human Relations Area Files) are a data archive and information retrieval system covering a large sample of world societies and/or cultures. These files have been developed to facilitate study, teaching, and research in the social-behavioral sciences, in area studies, and in the humanities. They are located in the Government Publications/Microforms area of the Miller Nichols Library. Helpful guides for searching and locating the HRAF include the following:

HRAF Research Guide	Micro Ref GN345.3 H81
HRAF Source Bibliography	Micro Ref Z7161 .H85
Nature and Use of the HRAF Files: A Research and Teaching Guide	Micro Ref H62 .H74
Outline of World Cultures	Micro Ref GN345.3 M87

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Government Publications

All call numbers in this guide refer to the UMKC Miller Nichols Library, unless otherwise noted.

• Library of Congress
  (www.loc.gov)
  • Especially for Researchers
    • Research Centers
      • American Folklife Center
  • Federal Research Division
    • Country Studies

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Web Resources

• Anthropology in the News
  Texas A & M
  (www.tamu.edu/anthropology/news.html)
• Human Relations Area Files (HRAF)
  (www.yale.edu/hraf/)
• Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology
  (www.peabody.harvard.edu/)
• American Anthropological Association
  (www.aaanet.org)
• Theory in Anthropology
  (www.indiana.edu/~wanthro/theory.htm)

Use search engines linked on the Internet Search Tools page to identify additional Web resources.

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For further assistance, please contact the
Miller Nichols Library Reference Desk at (816) 235-1534.

Revised and maintained by Christine Angolia
Created by Phyllis Schmidt