Guide to scholarly literature subdivided into subject areas, such as Anthropology, Sociology, and Political Science. Articles in each subject cover major categories of research with corresponding bibliographies of recommended resources. A wide range of articles from a variety of subjects may be of interest for this class. Here are a few examples:
Covers significant developments in the subfields of Anthropology, including archaeology, biological anthropology, linguistics and communicative practices, regional studies and international anthropology, and sociocultural anthropology.
It indexes articles and essays in over 2500 journals and edited works on all aspects of anthropology and archaeology, including art history, demography, economics, geography, geology, genetics, psychology, religion and sociology.
The only comprehensive abstracting journal in the field of anthropology, publishing three thousand abstracts per volume which provide a thorough coverage of anthropological scholarship in all its subfields.
Full-text database of published ethnographies, memoirs, archival material, and selected images. Geographic coverage is global and all aspects of human behavior are covered including kinship, family, race, marriage, gender, material culture, religion, conflict resolution, economic systems, and more.
A fully indexed primary-source database that includes field notebooks, images, and recordings from archival collections from North America, Europe, and the Asian Pacific.
Collection of documentary films in streaming video format for the visual study of human culture and behavior. Includes classic and contemporary documentaries produced by leading video producers in the discipline; previously unpublished footage from working anthropologists and ethnographers in the field; and select feature films.
eHRAF World Cultures is a cross-cultural database that contains over 350,000 pages of ethnographic and other documents (including books, journal articles, and dissertations) on all aspects of cultural and social life.
Area Studies Databases
These multidisciplinary databases focus on articles about specific regions. Many more are available on the Databases webpage--search for your region of interest to bring up relevant databases.
Index of published literature about native peoples of North America, including books, journal literature, conference papers, and U.S. & Canadian government documents.