LibGuides: Anthropology: Discipline Specific Databases in Anthropology

Annual Review of Anthropology

Annual Review of Anthropology is a part of the Annual Reviews database; its specific URL is http://www.annualreviews.org/journal/anthro . This database, dating from 1972-present, reviews developments and research relevant to anthropology under the headings Archaeology, Biological Anthropology, Anthropology of Language and Communication Processes, and Sociocultural Anthropology. Each review includes an extensive bibliography to guide researchers into critical resources on the topic covered.

Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History

These papers, published since 1907 by the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), provide rich coverage of cultural anthropology and archaeology, with special attention to Indians of North America. Among the prominent cultural anthropologists included are: Robert Lowie, Alfred Louis Kroeber, Clark Wissler, Ales Hrdlicka, Enid Schildkrout, Leslie Spier, Margaret Mead, Elsie Clews Parsons, Colin Turnbull, Theodore Schwartz, David Mandelbaum, Ruth and Stanley Freed, and Frank Speck.

Anthropology Online

Anthropology Online provides full-text ethnographies, reference books (including how to do fieldwork titles), anthologies, over 2400 photographs (780 of them from Robert Rattray), and gray literature, such as letters and fieldnotes. 75% of the content comes from the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, with notable African - esp. Ashante and Ghanaian - ethnographic material.

Anthropology Plus (EBSCO)

Anthropology Plus is our major index database in anthropology. It combines two major print indexes- Anthropological Literature, done by Harvard University and focused on American anthropology; and Anthropological Index Online, based on journals received at The British Museum and focused on British Anthropology.

AnthroSource

This is the official database of the American Anthropological Association (AAA), the main national-level association of anthropologists in the United States. It covers 30+ AAA journals, with full-text available for many articles from 2008 on.

Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (ProQuest)

LLBA, as it is popularly known, is the major database for bibliographic citations to the linguistics literature, so coverage of linguistics as one of the four fields of anthropology is found here. Document types include journal articles, books, book chapters, book reviews, dissertations, and working papers.