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AnthroSource

A complete electronic archive of all AAA journals through 2003. Current issues for 11 of the AAA's peer-reviewed publications.

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Through 2003

Bibliografía Mesoamericana

Bibliographic data for the published literature pertaining to the anthropology of Mesoamerica. Content includes archaeology, ethnography, ethnohistory, art history, linguistics, physical anthropology, and other related disciplines.

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Covers 1514 to present

eHRAF World Cultures (formerly eHRAF Collection of Ethnography

A cross-cultural database containing over 300,000 pages of descriptive information on all aspects of cultural and social life. Topics range from religious beliefs, bringing up children, causes and cures of diseases, to economic and political behavior. In eHRAF's full-text sources (books, articles, and dissertations) the paragraphs are numerically subject-indexed for precise retrieval of information, and therefore OCM subject codes are crucial in performing powerful searches in the eHRAF databases.

The eHRAF User Guides explain the unique aspects of the database.

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The url for the former ”eHRAF Collection of Ethnography” was http://ets.umdl.umich.edu/e/ehrafe

Abstracts in Anthropology [vol. 46, 2003 - current]

Print issues from v. 1 (1970)- are located in Milne Indexes & Abstracts (Upper Level) - GN1 .A15

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Cites and summarizes scholarly articles in anthropology and archaeology. Covers more than 100 scholarly journal titles.

Includes articles written from 1970 to the present.

International in scope.

Annual Review of Anthropology

Each year, Annual Reviews critically reviews the most significant primary research literature to provide a guide to the principal contributions of the field.

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All articles since October 1972 (Vol. 1)

Anthropological Index Online

Indexes scholarly articles in all areas of anthropology and archaeology. Allows you to search by journal name.

Does not provide summaries or full-text.

Includes articles written from 1957 to the present.

International in scope.

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Clase

CLASE indexes documents published in Latin American journals specializing in the social sciences and humanities.

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CLASE (Citas Latinoamericanas en Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades) covers 1975 to the present.

Clase and Periodica

CLASE indexes documents published in Latin American journals specializing in the social sciences and humanities.

PERIODICA covers journals specializing in science and technology.

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Clase: 1975 to present Periodica: 1978 to present

Contemporary Chinese Societies

A multidisciplinary, multi-media approach to contemporary China. Requires QuickTime, which the application will attempt to install if it is not found.

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Historical Abstracts

Best database for world history. Lists scholarly articles from history journals. Allows you to search by journal name. Each article is summarized.

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Covers the history of civilization (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present. Includes articles written from 1954 to the present.

Periódica

PERIÓDICA indexes documents published in Latin American journals specializing in science and technology.

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PERIÓDICA (Índice de Revistas Latinoamericanas en Ciencias) covers 1978 to the present.

Countries and Their Cultures

In 4 volumes, 225 countries are described, focusing on the ways of life of the people, and the main forces affecting them.
For each country there is a mix of demographic, historical, social, economic, political, and religious information.

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ANTH 100: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology

A beginning point for students new to the field of Anthropology. This course guide provides very basic level links to databases useful for anthropological research.

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Last updated for Fall 2002

ANTH 224: Ethnography of Gender in Latin America

A course guide for one of Dr. Kintz' classes in ethnography. The site was originally designed to lead students to the right questions when evaluating websites. A few academic search engines have been included.

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Last updated for Fall 2003

ANTH 229: Ethnography and Film

A course guide designed to lead students in their web, book, and article research. It provides many links to cultural groups discussed and studied in class and tips on scholarly evaluation and searching techniques.

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Last updated for Fall 2006

ANTH 282: Qualitative Methods in Anthropology

A course guide originally intended for a three-part sequence of intensive research training. Currently, the site includes helpful information on locating and evaluating web resources for academic purposes.

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Last updated for Spring 2006

ANTH 307: Third World Development

A course guide that provides many links to reputable associations who target their efforts toward the developing world. Students will find resources to help with background information on countries, as well as statistics and official government websites.

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Last updated for Spring 2006

BIOL 288: Disease and the Developing World

A course guide created for a class with Dr. Bandoni-Muench, specifically relating to an assignment on tuberculosis.

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Last updated for Spring 2006

GEOG 123: The Developing World

A course guide geared to an assignment where students locate current newspaper articles (with very specific criteria) on a global topic concerning countries of the developing world.

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Last updated for Spring 2006

Glossary of Social Science

An A-Z list of definitions in the social sciences. Created by Dr. Frank W. Elwell of Rogers State University.

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Online Dictionary of the Social Sciences

A searchable A-Z list of definitions in the social sciences.

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Social Science Dictionary with a Durkheim Bias

An A-Z list of definitions in the social sciences. Created by Andrew Roberts at Middlesex University.

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AccessScience (McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology)

Access all the articles from the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology. Includes the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms.

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HLAS Online - Handbook of Latin American Studies

A selective annotated bibliography of scholarly works on Latin America, the multidisciplinary Handbook alternates annually between the social sciences and the humanities.Works reviewed include books, journal articles, book chapters, and conference papers. Published since 1935.

Connect with 'FindText' enabled.

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Anthropology Collection Database

The California Academy of Science provides an online searchable database accessing nearly 16,000 objects and over 12,000 images.

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ARTstor

Access over 300,000 images covering architecture, painting, photography, sculpture, decorative arts and design, as well as archeological and anthropological objects. Learn about WebEx Training Sessions for individual users.

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InteractiveDig

From the Archaeological Institute of America's journal Archaeology comes a website that walks students through a variety of treasure digging adventures. Day by day accounts of the archaeological digs, plus pictures of each trip's findings can be found at this site.

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Museums: Archaeology on the Net

Provides links to the major museums of archaeology where articles, special projects, and images can be found.

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Rubbings of Maya Sculpture

View Merle Greene Robertson's archive of Maya imagery.

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American Memory Historical Collections

A gateway to primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States.

Offers more than 5 million items (digitized documents, photographs, recorded sound, moving pictures, and text) from more than 90 historical collections.

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Center for World Indigenous Studies (CWIS)

CWIS ”has in its files and electronic archives the largest collection of tribal and tribally related documents anywhere.”

Registered students and donors can receive access to the George Manuel Library archives.

CWIS also supports the Indigenous node of the World Wide Web Virtual Library.

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InteractiveDig

From the Archaeological Institute of America's journal Archaeology comes a website that walks students through a variety of treasure digging adventures. Day by day accounts of the archaeological digs, plus pictures of each trip's findings can be found at this site.

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World Folklore and Folklife

Geneseo's access to World Folklore and Folklife will end in the near future.
Subjects include:

• Celebrations and Rituals


• Food and Drink


• Holidays and Festivals


• Music and Dance


• Religion and Belief


• Tales, Myths, and Urban Legends


• Traditional Arts and Crafts

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Anthro.net

Anthro.Net is a search engine dedicated to the study of anthropology and archaeology. Students can search a database of over 40,000 pages from reviewed web sites with anthropological content. Search results will include internet based journal articles, well developed topical sites and bibliographic references for anthropology, archaeology and the other social sciences.

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Anthropology Resources on the Internet

A comprehensive list of Internet resources which are "directly and primarily of anthropological relevance."

Cultural Resource Management on the Web: Explore the Dynamic Field of CRM

A featured article from C&RL News, July/August 2006, that suggests some of the best internet resources related to the protection of historical lands and cultures.

Intute, Social Sciences: Anthropology

Provides free access to high quality resources on the Internet. Find conferences and events, full-text papers, links related to Anthropology and bibliographies through the website's search capabilities or by browsing by subject.

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Visual Anthropology

Provides online news and resources for visual anthropology including full-text papers, reviews (of film, festivals, conferences, etc.), conference announcements, exhibitions, and guides to new books, films, and other publications.

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Academic Search Complete

A recommended multidisciplinary resource to begin your research in all subject areas. Contains full text for more than half the journals covered.

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Indexing for over 10,000 publications, with full text for more than 6,100. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles.

ArticleFirst

Indexes 12,500 journals in science, technology, medicine, social science, business, the humanities, and popular culture.

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1990 to the present.

Google Scholar

Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web.
On-campus users will see additional links to ”Full Text” and ”IDS (ILL)” which will lead to resources available from Milne Library. To have these links available off campus, use ”Scholar Preferences” to set ”SUNY Geneseo” as the ”Library Link.”

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JSTOR

JSTOR, a multidisciplinary database, provides the full text of many scholarly journals in the humanities, sciences and social sciences back to their beginning.

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Full text beginning as far back as 1665.

ProQuest

A recommended multidisciplinary resource to begin your research in all subject areas. Abstracts and full text for both popular magazines and scholarly journals.

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Includes ABI/INFORM Global, American Medical Association, Platinum Periodicals, ProQuest Education Journals, ProQuest Health Management, ProQuest Psychology Journals, ProQuest Social Science Journals, and ProQuest Reference & Research Library.

Scopus

Scopus is an extensive database for scholarly journal articles in the scientific, technical, medical and social sciences fields.

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Scopus covers titles continuously from 1996 onwards, including citation data. Some content is available back into the 1960s. Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database. It covers:

• Life Sciences >3,400 titles
• Health Sciences > 5,300 titles (including 100% coverage of Medline titles)
• Physical Sciences > 5,500 titles
• Social Sciences > 2,850 titles