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Anthropology

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Gender Studies
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Key Resources
Dictionaries & Encyclopedias

The Library reference collection contains a broad range of useful resources such as encyclopaedias and dictionaries some examples are:

  • Biographical Dictionary Of Social And Cultural Anthropology
  • The Encyclopedia of world cultures
  • The Encyclopedia of cultural anthropology

To find more dictionaries or encyclopedias for Anthropology do a Keyword search in the catalogue for the term dictionaries (or encyclopedias) Eg: anthropology dictionaries, ethnology encyclopedias.

Finding Books

The catalogue is the key to the collection, use it to find primary resources such as books, exam papers, journals and audiovisual items. Finding items in the library catalogue will help you refine your searching

A keyword search can help you find items on a specific topic, and can be achieved by using a combination of terms. It searches the whole record, for example, the search dowry women India will retrieve results containing ALL the words. Select the link above for tips on using the keyword search.

Alternatively, you can use the subject heading approach. For example

Bride price Ethnology - Research Aboriginal Australians
Kinship Anthropology - Field work Marriage customs
Dowry Anthropology - Methodology Native title

HINT: use the subject heading links from the catalogue records of recommended books to find more on the same topic eg. Books listed on reserve or in your subject guide

Journals

The library has a wide variety of print and online journals and newspapers. Check the catalogue for print and or electronic holdings. Journals are good source of current issues in your subject. Some scholarly journals which may be useful to you are:

  • American Anthropologist
  • Anthropological quarterly
  • Anthropology Today
  • Annual review of Anthropology
  • Australian journal of anthropology
  • Cultural anthropology
  • Current anthropology
Online Journals Locating journal articles using the databases
  • Journal titles are listed in the catalogue NOT journal articles
  • Journal articles are indexed in online databases and printed indexes
  • Databases can be full text or citation only or a combination of the two.

NOTE: If there is no full text of the article on the database check the catalogue for our holdings of the journal

Internet Resources

Internet Directories

Ethnography

Kinship

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