Selected Anthropology Online Resources

Databases
(* licensed to Rhodes College)

*360Search
Click on "Anthropology & Sociology". 360Search will then simultaneously search a number of databases that contain anthropology related sources.
• *ARTStor
  ARTstor is a non-profit organization created by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. As part of its ongoing effort to become a community resource, ARTstor is developing a rich digital library that will offer coherent collections of art images and descriptive information as well as the software tools to enable active use of the collections. The ARTstor Library′s initial content will include approximately 300,000 images covering art, architecture and archeology. Instructional Guides & Handouts.
• *ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials
  Combines the premier index to journal articles, book reviews, and collections of essays in all fields of religion with ATLA′s online full text collection of major religion and theology journals.
• *Social Sciences Fulltext
  An in-demand resource for a wide variety of users from students to social workers, Social Sciences Full Text covers the latest concepts, trends, opinions, theories, and methods from both applied and theoretical aspects of the social sciences.
• *Sociological Abstracts
  Abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences.

Online Reference Sources
(* licensed to Rhodes College)

• *Dictionary of the Social Sciences
• *Dictionary of Anthropology
• *A Dictionary of Sociology
• *The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States
• *The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology
• *The Oxford Companion to Archaeology
• *A Dictionary of Astronomy
• *A Dictionary of Earth Sciences
• *Encyclopedia of Social and Cultural Anthropology
• *The Oxford Companion to the Earth
• *A Dictionary of African Mythology
• *A Dictionary of Asian Mythology
• *A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology
• *A Dictionary of English Folklore
• *The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
• *A Dictionary of Superstitions
• *A Dictionary of World Mythology

Online Journals
(* licensed to Rhodes College)

• Anthropological Index Online
  The Anthropological Index to Current Periodicals in the The Anthropology Library at the British Museum (incorporating the former Royal Anthropological Institute library)
• Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History Research Library
  The Anthropological Papers, published continuously since 1907, are monographic volumes that include some of the great ethnographies of the 20th century, particularly on North American Indians. Several illustrious anthropologists published their work in the Anthropological Papers, as well as many past and present curators of the AMNH Division of Anthropology.
• *Anthropology Journals - Subject List from SerialsSolutions
• Anthropology Review Database
  The Anthropology Review Database is intended to improve the level of access of anthropologists to anthropological literature by making them more aware of what is being published and helping them to evaluate its relevance to their own interests.
• ARD - Anthropology Review Database
• Cultural Analysist: An Interdisciplinary Forum on Folklore and Popular Culture (UC Berkeley)
  Cultural Analysis is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to investigating expressive and everyday culture. The journal features analytical research articles, but also includes notes, reviews, and responses
• *JSTOR Anthropology Journals
• Museum Anthropology Review
  Museum Anthropology Review is an open access journal whose purpose is the wide dissemination of peer-reviewed articles, reviews, essays, obituaries and other content advancing the field of material culture and museum studies, broadly conceived. The journal is edited by Jason Baird Jackson in the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology at Indiana University.
• Directory of Open Access Journals - 3,200 free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals, many of them searchable at the article level.

Selected Websites

• African Diaspora Archaeology Network (U of Illinois)
  This African Diaspora Archeology Network (ADAN) is a collaborative, interdisciplinary effort which provides a focal point for dialogues concerning archaeological and historical studies of African diasporas.
• American Anthropological Association
• Anthropology Biography Web (New Mexico State U)
  This biography web has been developed by the anthropology students  at Minnesota State University, Mankato as a part of our EMuseum. We strive to produce brief descriptions of anthropologists and other scientists that have direct influence on the discipline of anthropology.
• Anthropology Collection Database
  is site provides access to collection data housed in the Department of Anthropology, California Academy of Sciences. These data and images are copyrighted by the California Academy of Sciences, ©2003-2007.
• Anthropology Resources on the Internet
• AnthroTECH - Virtual Library of Anthropology
• Anthropology & Archaeology in Latin America
  From LANIC: Latin American Network Information Center
• Anthropology Resources on the Net
  From the American Anthropological Association
• Mediatedcultures.net (Kansas State University)
  Home of the digital ethnography working group, a team of cultural anthropology undergraduates led by Dr. Michael Wesch exploring the impact of digital technology on human interaction and human interaction on digital technology
• MIT Open Courseware - Anthropology
• National Anthropological Archives and Human Film Archives(National Museum of Natural History)
  The National Anthropological Archives and Human Studies Film Archives collect and preserve historical and contemporary anthropological materials that document the world′s cultures and the history of anthropology. Their collections represent the four fields of anthropology – ethnology, linguistics, archaeology, and physical anthropology – and include fieldnotes, journals, manuscripts, correspondence, photographs, maps, sound recordings, film and video created by Smithsonian anthropologists and other preeminent scholars.
• MIT Anthropology OpenCourseware
  OCW shares free lecture notes, exams, and other resources from more than 1700 courses spanning MIT′s entire curriculum.
• National Museum of the American Indian
• Understanding Race (American Anthropological Association)
  Looking through the eyes of history, science and lived experience, the RACE Project explains differences among people and reveals the reality – and unreality – of race.  The story of race is complex and may challenge how we think about race and human variation, about the differences and similarities among people.
• "Race: Are We So Different?" (Amer. Anth. Assn)
  The exhibition RACE: Are we so different? brings together the everyday experience of living with race, its history as an idea, the role of science in that history, and the findings of contemporary science that are challenging its foundations.
• Smithsonian Department of Anthropology
  Includes a number of online exhibits.
• World Food Habits (Illinois State University)
  English language resources for the anthropology of food and nutrition.

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