Spring 2009 — Professor Jay Levi

Print References | Native Americans | Social Sciences Database and Indexes | Databases and indexes| Journals | Web links

Print references

• GN is the call number range for books on anthropology
• E 50 - E 99 is the call number range for books on American Indians

Encyclopedias and other general reference titles are used to get an overview of a topic written by a specialist, find related terms that will apply to your topic, or identify a selected list of references.

• Encyclopedia of Cultural Anthropology.
  Levinson, David & Ember, Melvin, ed. 1996.
  CC Ref GN 307 .E52 1996
• Social and Cultural Anthropology: the key concepts.
  Rapport, Nigel and Overing, Joanna. 2000.
  GN 316 .R37 2000
• Worldmark Encyclopedia of Cultures and Daily Life. v. 2 - Americas
  Gall, Timothy L., ed. 1998.
  CC Ref 333 .W67 1998
• Encyclopedia of World Cultures.
  O'Leary, T. J. and David Levinson, eds. 1991- .
  vol. 1. North America.
  CC Ref Folio GN 550 .E53 1991

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Encyclopedias, dictionaries, and guides for Native Americans

• Handbook of North American Indians.
  Sturtevant, Willian C., ed. 1972- .
  Library has: volumes 4 - 15; 17.
  Gov Docs SI 1.20/2: (Level 1)
• The Encyclopedia of North American Indians. 1997.
  CC Ref E 76.2 .E53 1997 v.1
• Encyclopedia of North American Indians.
  Frederick E. Hoxie, ed. 1996.
  CC Ref E 76.2 .E53 1996
• Native America in the Twentieth Century. 1994.
  CC Ref E 76.2 .N36 1994
• Encyclopedia of Native American Healing. 1996.
  CC Ref E 98 .M4 L96 1996
• Dictionary of Native American Mythology. 1992
  CC Ref E 98 .R3 G46 1992
• Native American Women: a biographical dictionary. 2nd ed.
  Gretchen M. Bataille, ed. 2001.
  CC Ref E 98 .W8 B38 2001
• The Lumbee Indians: an annotated bibliography, with chronology and index.
  Starr, Glen Ellen. 1994
  CC Ref E 99 .C91 S72 1994
• Shamanism: an encyclopedia of world beliefs, practices, and culture.
  Walter, Marido Namba and Fridman, Eva Jane Neumann. 2004
  CC Ref GN 475.8 .S445 2004

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Social sciences databases and indexes

• America: History and Life, 1964 to date.
  Index with abstracts of journal articles, selected books, book reviews, and related material published in history and related discipline journals; no full text.
• Abstracts in Anthropology, 1974 - 1997.
  Basic index in the field; covers books, articles, and papers.
• Anthropological Literature: an Index to Periodical Articles and Essays, late 19th c to date.
  Large article index for anthropology; use Find it! button to link to full text.
• AnthroSource, 1960 to date.
  Journal articles, newsletters and bulletins from the American Anthropological Association.
• Contemporary Women's Issues, 1992 to date.
  CWI provides global coverage of information (articles, newsletters, IGOs, and more) on women; some full text.
• Ethnic News Watch, 1991 to date.
  Index and full text of about 300 minority newspapers published in the U.S.
• eHRAF Collection of Ethnography/Human Relations Area Files
  Ethnographies are coded according to culture group (i.e. Ojibway) and topic (i.e. childrearing); good for cross-cultural topics; much material is pre-1950; the major part of the collection is available in the microfiche collection; newer material is online; see a reference librarian for assistance.

• SSCI - Social Science Citation Index / Web of Knowledge, 1969 to date.
  The Institute for Scientific Information publishes the Social Sciences Citation Index, which provides access to current bibliographic information and cited references, covering more than 1,700 of the world's leading social sciences journals in a broad range of disciplines. It also covers individually selected, relevant items from more than 3,400 of the world's leading natural and physical science journals. A powerful capability is cited reference searching, a process whereby one tracks the number of times a specific work has been cited or referenced in other works.
• Sociological Abstracts, 1952 to date.
  Main index to the discipline.
• Women Studies Abstract, 1972 to date.  Indexes scholarly and popular publications not covered by more mainstream indexes.
  CC Ref HQ 1101 .W65
• Women's Studies Index, 1989 to date.
  Straight alphabetical author and subject listing of bibliographic citations. Comprehensive indexing of scholarly periodicals, selective indexing of popular titles.
  CC Ref HQ 1180 .W683
  

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Multidisciplinary databases

• LexisNexis Academic
  Indexes over 5,600 publications in news, finance, health and medicine, and government information.
• Academic Search Premier
  A general multidisciplinary database. A full-text icon or link will be visible when the full-text article is available.
• Current Contents
  A very large, interdisciplinary index with good coverage of the social sciences; no full text.
• ProQuest Research Library
  Provides access to newspapers and a large selection of journal articles; many are full text.

In indexes where there is no full text, remember to check the Find It Button/Journals List and/or Bridge to see whether Carleton or St. Olaf owns the journals for your citations.

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Journals

If you want to know if Carleton subscribes to a particular journal (print and/or electronic), from the FIND link on the home page, search in the Journals List for your title. If the journal is available electronically, follow the link. If a journal is available in paper at Carleton, write down the call number.

Full text articles may be found in many databases, including:

JSTOR and Project Muse.

Alternate method when searching in a database:
To see if Carleton subscribes to a journal, click the "Find It" button from any subscription database. Follow the links to full text or print information.

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Web links

A few selected links to major sites are provided below:

A Guide to Internet Resources in Anthropology
Lengthy, partially annotated list of websites relevant to anthropology from a professor at the University of Plattsburgh.

Ethnographic Atlas
A database of over 1,000 societies coded by George P. Murdock.  Analyze categories and themes cross-culturally and browse descriptions of the societies.

Nativeweb
This Anthropology section is one of several sections, containing links for information about or for Native or Indigenious Peoples.

WWW Virtual Library: Anthropology
Well-regarded, extensive site for academic resources.

Native American Sites
Major site for anthropology; winner of many awards.

Duke Collection of American Indian Oral History
Transcripts of interviews conducted from 1967 to 1972 with Indians in Oklahoma.

Regional museums and historical societies
Check their Web sites for any resources that may be available online.

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