Anthropology

 

Table of Contents

Anthropology Scope Top Databases Other Databases Journals Subject Guides Libraries and a Few Sample Books Open Access Journals Associations Museums and Smithsonian Institution

 

Scope

Scope: Anthropology Defined

 

“anthropology.(note 1) The study of man. The word probably originated with Aristotle’s description of the man with lofty ideas who is not a gossip or a talker about himself. The word anthropology is first found in English in an anoymous(sic) book on human nature, which divides the subject into psychology and anatomy.” Also, “The contemporary science of Anthropology consists of archaeology, cultural anthropology, linguistics, and physical anthropology.”

 

 

1. Winick, Charles. Dictionary of ANTHROPOLOGY New York: Philosophical Library, 1956. 28

 

 

 

Top Databases

 

AnthropologyPlus: available at: OC, SFU, TRU, UBC, UVic

http://eureka.rlg.org/Eureka/zgate2.prod

 

Anthropology Index Online: available at: CNC, NLC, TWU, UNBC, VIU

 

AnthroSource: available at: CAP, LC, SC, SFU, UBC, UVic, VIU

 

Other Databases

 

Databases through British Columbia Electronic Library Network (BC ELN)

http://www.eln.bc.ca/

 

 

Academic Search Complete: available at: BCIT, UBC

 

Academic Search Elite: available at: CNC, COTR, LC, NIC, NWCC, SC,  YC, VIU

http://www.eln.bc.ca/dbs/view.php?dbid=2

 

Academic Search Premier: available at: CAM, CAP, DC, ECUAD, JIBC, KPU, NLC, OC, RRU, SFU, TRU, TWU, UFV, UNBC, UVic, VCC

http://www.eln.bc.ca/dbs/view.php?dbid=31

 

Art Full Text: available at: ECUAD, NIC, SFU, TRU, UFV, UVic, YC

http://www.eln.bc.ca/dbs/view.php?dbid=79

 

Art Index: BCIT, CAM, CAP, CNC, COTR, ECUAD, KPU, LC, NIC, NLC, NWCC, OC, RRU, SC, SFU, TRU, TWU, UBC, UCFV, UNBC, UVic, VIU, YC

 

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Journals

 

Through UBC

 

Anthropology Journals available through JSTOR; organized by JSTOR

 

“JSTOR: Browse by Discipline: Anthropology” (2000-2007) JSTOR

Retrieved on March 6, 2007 through the UBC Library.

http://www.jstor.org/browse?frame=noframe&userID=8952aa3c@ubc.ca/01cce4406100501d52e&dpi=3&config=jstor#Anthropology

 

JSTOR Availability:

Arts & Sciences Collections: CAM, KPU, OC, SFU

Language & Literature Collection: OC, SFU

Unknown Collections: DC, LC, RRU, TRU, UFV, UBC, UNBC, UVic, VIU

 

Anthropology

American Anthropologist 1888-1999 (plus links to recent content 2000-2006)

Transactions of the Anthropological Society of Washington 1879-1885

American Antiquity 1935-2003

American Ethnologist 1974-1999 (plus links to recent content 2000-2006)

Annual Review of Anthropology 1972-2001

Biennial Review of Anthropology 1959-1971

Anthropological Quarterly 1953-2003

Primitive Man 1928-1952

Anthropology & Education Quarterly 1976-1999 (plus links to recent content 2000-2006)

Council on Anthropology and Education Quarterly 1974-1976

Council on Anthropology and Education Newsletter 1970-1973

Anthropology Today 1985-2001

RAIN 1974-1984

Cultural Anthropology 1986-1999 (plus links to recent content 2000-2006)

Current Anthropology 1959-1999 (plus links to recent content 1999-2005)

Yearbook of Anthropology 1955

Ethnohistory 1954-1999 (plus links to recent content 2000-2004)

Ethnomusicology 1953-2002

Ethos 1973-1999 (plus links to recent content 2000-2005)

International Journal of American Linguistics 1917-2002

Journal of American Folklore 1888-2001

Journal of Anthropological Research 1973-2003

Southwestern Journal of Anthropology 1945-1972

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 1995-2001

Man 1901-1994

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland 1907-1965

Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland 1872-1906

Journal of Anthropology 1870-1871

Journal of the Ethnological Society of London (1869-1870) 1869-1870

Journal of the Anthropological Society of London 1864-1871

Anthropological Review 1863-1870

Transactions of the Anthropological Society of London 1863

Transactions of the Ethnological Society of London 1861-1869

Journal of the Ethnological Society of London (1848-1856) 1848-1856

Latin American Antiquity 1990-2003

Lied und populäre Kultur / Song and Popular Culture 2000-2002

Jahrbuch für Volksliedforschung 1928-1999

Medical Anthropology Quarterly 1983-1999 (plus links to recent content 2000-2006)

Medical Anthropology Newsletter 1968-1982

Mexican Studies / Estudios Mexicanos 1985-2003

Proceedings of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland 1965-1973

 

 

 

 

Subject Guides

 

Capilano College Library Subject Guide: Anthropology

 

College of New Caledonia Library Guide to Useful Indexes for Anthropology

College of the Rockies Library Subject Guide for Anthropology and Sociology

Douglas College Library Anthropology Subject Guide

Kwantlen University College Library Anthropology Subject Guide

Langara College Library ANTH 2231: Primate Behaviour

Malaspina University-College Library Anthropology Resources

Northern Lights College Library Anthropology Subject Guide (pdf)

Northwest Community College Library Anthropology Subject Guide

SFU Library Anthropology Information Resources

Thompson Rivers University Library Anthropology Research Guide

Trinity Western University Library Which Index or Database Should I Use? Anthropology

UBC Library Subject Resources for Anthropology

 

UCFV Library Anthropology Guide to Research

UVic Library Anthropology Research Guide

 

 

Libraries and a Few Sample Books

 

 

The George & Mary Foster Anthropology Library

http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ANTH/

 

The Koerner Library of UBC has reference books available for use in the library on the second level. Some examples include:

 

Anthropological Glossary(note 2) This book has about 282 pages of definitions including terms such as “ACCLIMITIZATION” (1), “FOOD GATHERING SOCIETIES” (90) and “MAORI” (167)

 

Encyclopedia of Cultural Anthropology(note 3)

In addition to exploring cultural anthropology, the book includes, “. . . it also covers selected information from the other three fields of anthropology-linguistics, biological anthropology, and archaeology” (vii). Titles of articles include “Altruism” (xi), “Archives” (xi), “Belief Systems” (xii), “Dreams” (xiii), “Human Universals” (xv), and “Writing Systems” (xix).

 

History of Physical Anthropology: An Encyclopedia(note 4) In two volumes. The preface (ix) says that there are three types of topics included: “. . . the development of specific areas of scientific inquiry and theory”, “the description of the discipline’s intellectual and institutional development . . .”, and “implicit biographical sketches.” Also includes, “. . . history of primate behavioural studies . . .”

 

Macmillan Dictionary of Anthropology(note 5) This is a dictionary of about 291 pages with entries such as, “agriculture” (7), “economic anthropology” (87), and “solidarity” (264).

 

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Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia, Library

(because of construction, the library is being housed temporarily in room 2314 of the Anthropology and Sociology Building. http://www.moa.ubc.ca/collections/library.php

 

This library has books on a variety of topics. The following are some examples:

 

Ancient American Pottery(note 6)

The inside of the front of the book jacket states, “Archeologists in our own time are gradually reconstructing the lost chapters of history that extend from the sixteenth century A.D. to the fifth century B.C. Pottery is here, as always, the key to knowledge, . . .” The book contains many nice photographs of pottery artifacts that are mostly in black and white. In the table of contents (ix), there are headings such as “THE SOUTHWEST OF THE U.S.A.” Another heading is “THE POTERY OF CENTRAL AMERICA” with subheadings such as “THE ZAPOTECS”, “WESTERN MEXICO”, and “LATE AZTEC”. On page one, the book mentions how “. . . the wheel . . .” was not part of “American Pottery”. Also mentioned is “The first known appearances of pottery in America are in the second millennium B.C., . . .” (2).

 

Early Civilization in China(note 7)

The table of contents pages (no page numbers) have headings such as, “Paleolithic China”, “Neolithic China”, “The Bronze and Early Iron Ages”, and The Artistic Tradition of the Shang and Chou”. The outside back book cover states, “This absorbing volume surveys prehistoric and early dynastic China in the light of the archaeological remains, and covers the period from the earliest prehistoric site at Chou K’ou Tien through the Shang and Chou dynasties to the end of the latter in 221 B.C.

 

The Festivals of Nepal(note 8)

The table of contents pages (no page numbers) have headings such as “Nawabarsa and Bisket, Nepalese New Year in Bhadgaon and Thimi”, “Rhato Machhendranath Rath Jatra, the Chariot Ride of Red Machendra”, Gokarna Aunsi, Nepalese Father’s Day”, Sorah Sraddha, Sixteen Days of Ancestor Worship”, Chakandeo Jatra, a Travelling Merchant becomes a God” and Sapana Tirtha Mela, Dreams and Renewed Life for the New Year”

 

The forward of the book, (15) includes, “. . . the continuous flow of interrelated festivals throughout the year is literally a way of life, reflecting their joys and fears, dreams and sorrow.”

 

 

From the Land of the Totem Poles: The Northwest Coast Indian Art Collection at the American Museum of Natural History(note 9) The book jacket back says, “Nearly 100 color plates in the book and numerous historical photographs from the Museum’s archives recall a bygone era and are a tribute to the stunning artworks of the North Pacific Region.”

 

Monuments in Cedar(note 10) The front of the book jacket says, “. . . author Keithahn traces the totem pole from Stone Age to Golden Age, shows its importance in Indian social and political life.” Includes chapter headings such as: “THE TOTEMPOLAR REGION AND ITS PEOPLE” (14), “ORIGIN OF THE TOTEMPOLE” (14), “TYPES OF TOTEM POLES” (14), and “READING A TOTEM POLE” (14).

 

Smithsonian Institution Libraries: John Wesley Powell Library of Anthropology (note 11)

http://www.sil.si.edu/Libraries/anth-hp.htm

 

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http://www.sil.si.edu/Libraries/anth-hp.htm

 

 

 

Open Access Journals

 

Open Access Journals: Directory of Open Access Journals: “43 journals belonging to subject: Anthropology”

http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=subject&cpid=124

 

Associations

 

 

 

American Anthropological Association

http://www.aaanet.org/

 

Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and Commonwealth

http://www.theasa.org/

 

Royal Anthropological Institute

http://www.therai.org.uk/

 

Alaska Anthropological Association

http://www.alaskaanthropology.org/

 

Museums and Smithsonian Institution

Museums and Smithsonian Institution

 

Museum of Anthropology at The University of British Columbia

http://www.moa.ubc.ca/

 

Maxwell Museum of Anthropology

http://www.unm.edu/~Maxwell/

 

Smithsonian Institution Libraries: John Wesley Powell Library of Anthropology

http://www.sil.si.edu/Libraries/anth-hp.htm

 

 

University of Cambridge: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

http://museum.archanth.cam.ac.uk/index.htm

 

University of Michigan Museum of Anthropology UMMA

http://www.lsa.umich.edu/umma/

 

USU Museum of Anthropology

http://www.usu.edu/anthro/museum/