LibGuides: Anthropology: Find Articles

Core Resources

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Anthropology Plus This link opens in a new window
Anthropology Plus indexes nearly 900 journals and monographic series from the 19th century to the present. It covers sociocultural, archaeological, biological, and linguistic anthropology plus related fields such as art history, economics, ethnology, folklore, primatology, and psychology. The database is comprised of two databases, Anthropological Index Online and Anthropological Literature, which use different subject thesauri.
Updated monthly.
Bibliografía Mesoamerica This link opens in a new window
Bibliografía Mesoamerica is an online collection of thousands of citations for books, journal articles, theses and dissertations, and audiovisual materials on topics in Mesoamerican (Central American) anthropology, ethnology, linguistics, art, archaeology, and more. Content is updated constantly. For searching help, please use the Hints on How to Explore the FAMSI Collections page (http://www.famsi.org/howtoexplorefamsi.htm)
eHRAF Archaeology This link opens in a new window
A cross-cultural database containing descriptive information on archaeological traditions. eHRAF Archaeology is unique because each archaeological tradition contains a variety of source documents (books, articles, and dissertations) that have been indexed and organized according to HRAF's comprehensive tradition and subject classification systems.
eHRAF World Cultures This link opens in a new window Subjects: Anthropology, Art, Education, Folklore, French, German, Spanish, Women's Studies Funded by ISU Libraries
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Abstracts in Anthropology This link opens in a new window
The most recent two years are available online. All print volumes, 1970 +, are available in the Reference Collection. The call number is GN1 .A15.

Anthropology Commons™
The Digital Commons Network brings together free, full-text scholarly articles from hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide. Curated by university librarians and their supporting institutions, the Network includes a growing collection of peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, dissertations, working papers, conference proceedings, and other original scholarly work.

Related Resources

These databases include interdisciplinary and subject specific databases that include journals and articles related to anthropology.

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window Subjects: General, Multidisciplinary Funded by ISU Libraries
AGRICOLA (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
Agricola covers all aspects of agriculture, including paleobotany and archaeozoology.
Alt HealthWatch This link opens in a new window Subjects: Consumer Health | Counseling | Dental Hygiene | Nutrition and Dietetics | Evidence Based Medicine | Health Care Administration | Health Sciences | Nursing | Occupational Therapy | Pharmacy | Physical Therapy | Physician Assistant | Psychology | Sport Science Funded by ISU Libraries
America: History & Life This link opens in a new window Subjects: History | Anthropology | Biography | Folklore | Geneaology and Family History | Women's Studies Funded by ISU Libraries
American Museum of Natural History Scientific Publications This link opens in a new window
This site includes "Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History." It has "some of the great ethnographies of the 20th century, particularly on North American Indians."

Anthropological Abstracts (German Anthropology Online)
"Anthropological Abstracts introduces most publications in cultural/social anthropology published in German language area (Austria, Germany, Switzerland) in the form of abstracts in English. Most of these publications are not included in major Abstracting Services such as the "International Bibliography of the Social Sciences" or "Sociological Abstracts". Anthropological Abstracts (AA) includes monographs, anthologies, museum catalogs, and journal articles. It is a convenient source of information for scholars who do not read German, to become aware of these publications. Most abstracts are authored by the editor, others are bracketed by the ## sign."

Anthropological Index Online This link opens in a new window Subjects: Anthropology | Folklore | Ethnic Studies | Native American Studies Index only Free
Art Full Text This link opens in a new window Subjects: Art Limited to 4 users at one time. Funded by ISU Libraries
Dissertations and Theses, Proquest This link opens in a new window Subjects: General, Multidisciplinary | Business | Health Sciences | History | Literature and Literary Criticism | Political Science | Psychology | Sociology Funded by ISU Libraries
Handbook of Latin American Studies This link opens in a new window
Subjects: History, Anthropology, Languages
Funded by the US Government
HeinOnline This link opens in a new window
HeinOnline includes an American Indian Law Collection and the U.S. Treaties and Agreements Library.
Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new window Subjects: History Funded by ISU Libraries
Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective: 1907-1984 This link opens in a new window Subjects: General, Multidisciplinary, Humanities Funded by ISU Libraries
Humanities International Index This link opens in a new window Subjects: General, Multidisciplinary, Humanities Funded by ISU Libraries

International Bibliography of Anthropology
International Bibliography of Anthropology (Bibliographie internationale d'anthropologie) PRINT RESOURCE
(Main Book Collection: Z 7161. I 593) Published annually, this bibliography contains citations for journal and monograph articles on topics in anthropology. Articles can be found by author's name, place name, or by subject. The Eli M. Oboler Library has volumes 44 (1998) through volume 55 (2009) and volumes 1-43(1955-1997) under the title International bibliography of social and cultural anthropology with the same call number.

JSTOR (Arts & Sciences I-XV, Ecology & Botany I, Life Sciences) This link opens in a new window Subjects: Philosophy, Mathematics, History, Business, Anthropology, Art, Biological Sciences, Communication, Media, Persuasion, Dance, Music, Political Science, Sociology, Social Work, Criminal Justice, Theatre, Literary Criticism, Creative Writing, Business Writing, Technical Writing Funded by ISU Libraries
MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window
Indexes articles in the subjects of literature, language, linguistics, and folklore from journals, books, proceedings, and dissertations. Researchers will find good coverage of American Indian languages, literature and authors. Visual anthropologists will find articles on films.
Philosopher's Index with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Covering all major fields of philosophy and including full-text journals from more than 30 countries this database covers philosophical anthropology.
PsycInfo This link opens in a new window Subjects: Dance, Education, Psychology, Health Sciences Databases, Sports Science and Sports Education, Counseling, Dietetics, Health Care Admininstration, Health Education, Nursing, Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy, Public Health, Radiographic Science, Speech Language Pathology, Paramedic Science, Special Education Funded by ISU Libraries
PubMed This link opens in a new window Subjects: General Health Sciences. Funded by US Government
Social Sciences Citation Index This link opens in a new window Subjects: Political Science, Psychology, Sociology, Women's Studies Funded by ISU Libraries
Sociological Collection This link opens in a new window Subjects: Folklore, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology, Criminal Justice, Women's Studies. Funded by ISU Libraries
Web of Science This link opens in a new window
This database is comprised of Science Citation Index Expanded (1993-present); Social Sciences Citation Index (1993-present); Arts & Humanities Citation Index (2009-present) and Emerging Sources Citation Index (2015-present).

PrimateLit
PrimateLit database is no longer being updated as of Nov. 30, 2010. -- "The PrimateLit database provides 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 (behavior, colony management, ecology, reproduction, field studies, disease models, veterinary science, psychology, physiology, pharmacology, evolution, taxonomy, developmental and molecular biology, genetics and zoogeography)."-PrimateLit web page.

Open Access Journals

Many, but not all, open-access journals are included in the "Journals by Title" tab on the Library's homepage.

Free Open Access Anthropology Journals
A selection of open-access journals in anthropology and related fields that includes journals in many languages (e.g., English, Spanish, German, multilingual)
Archaeology and Anthropology
This journal is published cooperatively by the University of Guyana and the Department of Anthropology, Boise State University, as the journal of the Walter Roth Museum of Anthropology.
IK: Other Ways of Knowing
This multidisciplinary and peer-reviewed journal published original research articles as well as review articles in all areas of indigenous knowledge from a global perspective.

Primary Resources / Digital Resources

Indigenous Histories and Cultures in North America This link opens in a new window
Native American Studies | History |
Explore manuscripts, artwork and rare printed books dating from the earliest contact with European settlers right up to photographs and newspapers from the mid-twentieth century. Browse through a wide range of rare and original documents from treaties, speeches, and diaries, to historic maps and travel journals.
Indigenous Newspapers in North America This link opens in a new window
American Indian Newspapers aims to present a diverse and robust collection of print journalism from Indigenous peoples of the US and Canada over more than 9,000 individual editions from 1828-2016.
World Scholar: Latin America And The Caribbean This link opens in a new window
"This multidisciplinary resource includes a comprehensive range of content for the region, providing research across the humanities both for current issues and events in Latin America and the Caribbean as well as for historical perspective back to the colonial period."
Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine: 1780-1925, Part I This link opens in a new window
Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine: 1780-1925, Part II This link opens in a new window
This database includes archival collections on 'Evolution and the Origin of Species' and historical American medical periodicals.

History Subject Guide -- primary resources on Native Americans

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Anthropology: Find Articles