Anthropology Resources

This selection of specialized resources in Anthropology is designed to help you navigate through the wealth of information in Fondren's collections. It is not a comprehensive list. For resources in other subjects, see other Fondren subject guides.

Finding Journal Articles

Use indexes to find references to periodical articles and to other materials such as books, book chapters, dissertations, etc. In some cases, links to the full texts are provided.

ABSEES [American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies] | Guide

American Bibliography of Slavic & Eastern European Studies (ABSEES), produced by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, provides information on East-Central Europe and the former Soviet Union. Some of the many subjects covered include: anthropology, culture & the arts, economics, education, and geography. Sources indexed include journals, books, dissertations, online resources and selected government publications published in the U.S. and Canada. Coverage for ABSEES ranges from 1990-present. (1990-, updated monthly)

Abstracts in Anthropology

Abstracts in Anthropology covers a broad spectrum of significant, current anthropological topics from a vast number of periodicals. Several thousand abstracts, selected and classified, fully indexed by author and subject, provide a thorough coverage of anthropological scholarship in all its subfields: * Cultural Anthropology * Physical Anthropology * Archaeology * Linguistics

Academic Search Complete (courtesy of Texshare) | includes Full Text

Provides full text for more than 5,000 scholarly publications covering academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies.

Anthropology Plus (via FirstSearch)

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. The vendor of this database has merged with OCLC; the database migrated onto the WorldCat interface, September 26 2007. (late 19th century -)

AnthroSource | includes Full Text

Current issues of American Anthropological Association's journals and bulletins as well as archived issues of all the AAA's journals, newsletters and bulletins. Journal issues generally appear online prior to distribution in print.

Bibliography of Asian Studies

This on-line version of the Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS) contains more than 410,000 records on all subjects (especially humanities and social sciences) pertaining to East, Southeast, and South Asia published worldwide. Through the 1991 printed version, the BAS included citations to western-language periodical articles, individually authored monographs, chapters in edited volumes, conference proceedings, anthologies, and Festschriften, etc. Since 1992, newly published individual monographs are no longer being added to the database. (1971-, updated quarterly)

Central and Eastern European Online Library (CEEOL) | includes Full Text

C.E.E.O.L. is an online archive which provides access to full text PDF articles from 280 humanities and social science journals and re-digitized documents pertaining to Central, Eastern and South-Eastern European topics.

Chicano Database (via FirstSearch) | includes Full Text

CDB identifies, in one place, all types of material about Chicanos and provides uniform subject access to this constantly growing body of literature. In 1992 CDB expanded its scope to include the broader Latino experience of Puerto Ricans, Cuban Americans, and Central American immigrants. The vendor of this database has merged with OCLC; the database migrated onto the WorldCat interface, 9/19/07.

Dissertations and Theses - A&I | includes Full Text

Proquest Dissertations and Theses - A&I database includes citations for masters and doctoral dissertations from 1861 to those accepted as recently as last semester; those published from 1980 forward also include 350-word abstracts, written by the author. Citations for master's theses from 1988 forward include 150-word abstracts. The database represents the work of authors from over 1,000 North American graduate schools and European universities. The full text of dissertations and theses (Rice, 1918- ) may also be downloaded free of charge.

Handbook of Latin American Studies

The Handbook is a bibliography on Latin America consisting of works selected and annotated by scholars. Edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress, more than 130 academics from around the world choose over 5,000 works for inclusion in the Handbook. (1935-)

JSTOR | includes Full Text | Source List

JSTOR provides online, fulltext access to over 300 core scholarly journals from date of inception to a "moving wall" of 2-5 years from present. The archived collection includes journals in humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. The content is searchable by author, title, fulltext with limits by discipline, year, and article type. (Note: pop-up blocking must be disabled.)

Modern Language Association Bibliography (via FirstSearch) | includes Full Text

This bibliography covers literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore from over 4,000 journals and series published worldwide between 1926 and the present. The MLA Bibliography is updated ten times per year. (1926-)

Sociological Abstracts | includes Full Text

Sociological Abstracts covers 3,000 journals (and some books) in sociology, social planning/policy, and related subjects. (Alternate interface languages include: French, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese and Korean). (1963-)

Web of Knowledge previously known as Web of Science | includes Full Text

The Web of Science is an integrated database of three citation indexes: Science Citation Index (SCI), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), and Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI). SCI and SSCI have searchable author abstracts and each database may be searched by a variety of other accesses including who the author cites. WOS permits searching one or more of the three databases. SCI on WOS coverage is from 1900 to date. SSCI indexes material from 1956 to date. AHCI indexes materials from 1975 to date. Includes ISIHighlyCited: a directory of over 250 eminent researchers in life sciences, medicine, physical sciences and social sciences. (minimum 1975- (see description))

Finding Books

WebCat
Look for books in Fondren Library by searching Fondren's catalog.

WorldCat
To find books not in WebCat, look in this index of books held by over 15,000 libraries.

Other Libraries' Catalogs
A list of links to other libraries' online catalogs.

Interlibrary Loan
Rice students, staff, and faculty can borrow books and other materials not in Fondren.

Online Text Collections

Digital Dissertations and Theses from ProQuest/UMI

A comprehensive source for doctoral dissertations from the United States and Canada. Includes citations for dissertations ranging from 1861 to those accepted last semester. A limited number of master's theses is also included. Titles represent authors from North America and Europe, with over a million titles in full text.

eHRAF [Electronic Human Relations Area File]

Guide

Provides full-text ethnographic information on the cultures of the world. This continues (and will eventually duplicate) the microfiche HRAF which is available in Fondren Library's Government Publications Department. (1995-)

Microform Sets

Human Relations Area Files

Call Number:  GN 345.3 .H85  microfiche, continued by eHRAF

Library Catalog Access:  series & individual titles

Guide:  comprehensive indexes and guides are necessary to locate the fiche

Reference Works

Archaeological Method and Theory: An Encyclopedia. Garland Pub.: 2000.

Call Number:  CC75 .A654 2000   REFERENCE

Cambridge Encyclopedia of Human Evolution. Cambridge University Press: 1992.

Call Number:  GN281 .C345 1992   REFERENCE

Companion Encyclopedia of Anthropology: Humanity, Culture and Social Life. Routledge: 1994.

Call Number:  GN25 .C65 1994   REFERENCE

Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology. Timothy Darvill. Oxford University Press : 2002.

Available Online

Call Number:  CC70 .D37 2002    STACKS

From amphora to ziggurat, and Beaker Culture to molluscan analysis, this comprehensive dictionary, covers the essential vocabulary for archaeological work, including principles, theories, techniques, artefacts, materials, people, places, monuments, equipment, and descriptive terms. The dictionary focuses especially on Europe, the Old World, and the Americas, and covers legislation relating to the United Kingdom and the USA.

Countries and Their Cultures. Macmillan Reference : 2001.

Call Number:  GN307 .C68 2001 (volumes 1-4)   REFERENCE

Dictionary of the Social Sciences. Craig Calhoun. Oxford University Press : 2002.

Available Online

Call Number:  H41 .D53 2002    STACKS

Collecting anthropology, sociology, political science, economics, human geography, cultural studies, and Marxism in one volume, the Dictionary presents concise, clearly written definitions of more than 1,500 important terms.

Encyclopedia of Archaeology: History and Discoveries. ABC-CLIO: 2001.

Call Number:  CC100 .E54 2001 (volumes 1-3)   REFERENCE

Encyclopedia of Archaeology: The Great Archaeologists. ABC-CLIO: 1999.

Call Number:  CC110 .E54 1999 (volumes 1-2)   REFERENCE

Encyclopedia of Cultural Anthropology. Henry Holt and Co.: 1996.

Call Number:  GN307 .E52 1996 (volumes 1-4)   REFERENCE

Encyclopedia of Human Evolution and Prehistory. 2nd ed. Garland: 2000.

Call Number:  GN281 .E53 2000   REFERENCE

Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. Pergamon Press: 1994.

Call Number:  P29 .E48 1994 (volumes 1-10)   REFERENCE

Encyclopedia of Prehistory. Kluwer Academic/Plenum: 2001.

Call Number:  GN710 .E53 2001 (volumes 1-7)   REFERENCE

Encyclopedia of Social and Cultural Anthropology. Routledge: 1998.

Available Online

Call Number:  GN307 .E525 1996   REFERENCE

Encyclopedia of World Cultures. David Levinson. G.K. Hall: 1991-1996.

Call Number:  GN307 .E53   REFERENCE

v.1 North America; v.2 Oceania; v.3 South Asia; v.4 Europe (Central, Western, and Southeastern Europe); v.5 East and Southeast Asia; v.6 Russia and Eurasia, China; v.7 South America; v.8 Middle America and the Caribbean; v.9 Africa and the Middle East; v.10 Indexes

History of Physical Anthropology: An Encyclopedia. Garland: 1997.

Call Number:  GN50.3 .H57 1997 (v.1 & v. 2)   REFERENCE

International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences. Elsevier Science: 2001.

Call Number:  H41 .I58 2001   REFERENCE

Oxford Companion to Archaeology. Oxford University Press: 1996.

Call Number:  CC70 .O96 1996   REFERENCE

Websites

These are major (and generally well-maintained) directories of anthropology websites.

Anthropology Resources on the Internet

From the American Anthropological Association.

Voice of the Shuttle: Anthropology

Voice of the Shuttle: Archaeology

WWW Virtual Library ofAnthropology

Yahoo Directory: Anthropology and Archaeology