Getting Started
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21st Century Anthropology: A Reference Handbook
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'21st Century Anthropology' offers students a reference source that will serve their research needs with more detailed information than encyclopedia entries but not so much jargon detail or density as a journal article or a research handbook chapter.
Publication Date: 2010 -
International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral sciences
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Fully revised and updated, the second edition of the International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, Twenty Five Volume Set, first published in 2001, offers a source of social and behavioral sciences reference material that is broader and deeper than any other. Available in both print and online editions, it comprises over 3,900 articles, commissioned by 71 Section Editors, and includes 90,000 bibliographic references as well as comprehensive name and subject indexes.
Call Number: H41 .I58 2015ebPublication Date: 2015 -
International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences by Covers scholarship and fields that have emerged and matured since the publication of the original international edition. Highlights the expanding influence of economics in social science research and features new articles and biographies contributed by scholars from around the world on a wide array of global topics in the social sciences.
Publication Date: 2008
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Blackwell Reference Online This link opens in a new window 350+ titles in the humanities and social sciences, including the Blackwell companions and handbooks. Strengths are psychology, sociology, history, literature, philosophy, and religion.
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Oxford Bibliographies Online This link opens in a new window A scholar-curated library of subject bibliographies in the humanities & social sciences; each entry offers a guided tour through key literature on a topic.
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Oxford Reference Online This link opens in a new window Reference dictionaries and companions, including illustrations, web links, and searching individual titles or by subject area; from Oxford University Press.
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Routledge Handbooks Online This link opens in a new window DRM-free handbooks offering peer-reviewed research articles in the humanities, social sciences, education, psychology, engineering & built environment. Chapters can be browsed, searched, viewed & downloaded.
Media
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Ethnographic Video Online: Foundational Films [Alexander Street] This link opens in a new window Classic & contemporary documentaries, including previously unpublished footage from working anthropologists & ethnographers in the field; videos include accompanying field notes, liner notes, filmmaker biographies, related articles, study guides, etc., when possible.
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Ethnographic Video Online: Indigenous Voices [Alexander Street] This link opens in a new window Classic & contemporary documentaries, including previously unpublished footage from working anthropologists & ethnographers in the field; videos include accompanying field notes, liner notes, filmmaker biographies, related articles, study guides, etc., when possible.
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Kanopy This link opens in a new window Streaming educational & feature films across all disciplines, with films from the BBC, California Newsreel, Criterion, PBS & many others. Create a free Kanopy account on campus, then connect to a Kanopy app and watch on your mobile device or smart TV. See Kanopy Help.
Websites
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American Anthropological Association Links for Anthropology resources on the web
Smith Pioneers in Anthropology
Barbara Honeyman Heath Roll graduated from Smith College in 1932 and went on become an anthropologist and expert in somatotypes. She worked with Margaret Mead in Papua New Guinea from 1966 to 1975. Her papers from this time are house in Smith College Special Collections.