• AnthroSource - full text
• Anthropological Index Online
• Anthropological Literature - Clapp Ref Z5112.A5
• Social Sciences Full Text
• Sociological Abstracts
• Annual Review of Anthropology - broad essays with extensive bibliographies

• Human Relations Area Files - Clapp GN643.H8 - ethnographic field data from Yale
• Atlas of World Cultures: A Geographical Guide to Ethnographic Literature - Clapp Ref G1046.E1 P7

• Anthro.Net
• Anthropology Resources on the Internet
• Voice of the Shuttle - Anthropology
• ArchNet
• Center for Materials Research in Archaeology and Ethnology - MIT
• Google Scholar

• tip: use an encyclopedia for a quick overview, to develop vocabulary for searching, & for further sources
  
  
• International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences > Anthropology section
  
• Encyclopedia of Anthropology (Birx) - Clapp Ref GN11 .E63
  
• Encyclopedia of Cultural Anthropology - Clapp Ref GN307 .E52
  
  
• search encyc* + [your broad topic] for more in the library catalog

• tip: in the library catalog, click on the title of a useful book > full record tab - follow the subject links to find more on that topic
• useful subject searches for finding books on this topic in the library catalog include:
  • anthropology
  • archaeology
  • ethnology (for cultural anthropology)
    
    
• click on the NExpress or Virtual Catalog buttons to request items checked out or that we don't own
  
  
• search WorldCat for items we don't own - click on the Find It! Wellesley button to request

Librarians for Anthropology

Laura Reiner
Research & Instruction, x2108

Graham Henderson
Collections, x3514

Related resources

Library catalog

Interlibrary loan

Writing help (PLTC)

Citing sources: American Anthropological Association style guide

Wellesley Anthropology Department

Tozzer Library, Harvard

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