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For anthropological treatments of particular topics do a keyword search in Albert combining a topic word with the phrases Anthropological Aspects or Social Life and Customs. For example:

• Dancing--Anthropological Aspects
• Australian Aborigines -- Social life and Customs

 For information on a particular culture use the specific name of the culture.

Videos

To search Albert for videos type key words or a title into the search box then click on the arrow on the right and change "Entire Collection" to "Films Videos"

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To search the contents of ebooks try:

Annual Review of Anthropology Palo Alto, CA: Annual Reviews,1972-. 

- includes:

•  Companion to the Anthropology of American Indians

• Companion to the Anthropology of Japan

• Companion to the Anthropology of Politics
• Companion to Psychological Anthropology: Modernity and Psychocultural Change

Dictionary of Anthropology. (Ref 306.03 B238) Oxford: Blackwell, 1997.

Encyclopedia of Cultural Anthropology. (Ref 306.03 L578) 4 vols. New York: Henry Holt, 1996.

Encyclopedia of Medical Anthropology: Health and Illness in the World's Cultures. (Ref 362.103 Em12) 2 vols. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum, 2004.

Encyclopedia of Human Evolution and Prehistory. (Ref 573.2 T189a) New York: Garland, 1999.

 Encyclopedia of Social and Cultural Anthropology. (Ref 306.03 B253) New York: Routledge, 1996.

- Includes

• Encyclopedia of Anthropology
• Encyclopedia of Food and Culture
• Encyclopedia of World Cultures plus Supplement (2002)

Handbook of Ethnography. (Ref. 306.018 At56h)Thousand Oaks, CA : Sage , 2001

Handbook of Forensic Anthropology and Archaeology. (Ref 614.1 B613) Walnut Creek, Calif. : Left Coast Press, 2009.

International Dictionary of Anthropologists. (Ref 306.0922 W736) New York: Garland, 1991.

- Includes

• Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America

- includes

• 21st Century Anthropology

 

Africa Focus: Sights and Sounds of a Continent - A collection of digitized visual images and sounds of Africa from the University of Wisconsin-Madison's African Studies Program.

 African Online Digital Library - Digital Library for Africa with exhibits, essays, interviews and research. Searchable.

American Folklife Center - From the Library of Congress, this site is meant to "preserve and present American life". Information can be searched by state. Includes bibliographical references.

American Museum of Natural History: Anthropology Division - Displays over 200,000 images from the museums collection.

California Academy of Sciences: Anthropology Department - The database collection is highly visual, with many images to enjoy. Find online exhibitions, publications, and more.

 CSAC's Ethnographics Gallery - From the Centre for Social Anthropology and Computing.  From the University of Kent in Canterbury, England.

 Ethnographic Resources related to Folklore, Anthropology, Ethnomusicology, and the Humanities - From the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress.

Pacific Studies WWW Virtual Library - A directory of a wide assortment of Web sites, bibliographies, and discussion lists related to the Pacific Islands.

Public Anthropology - "...demonstrates the ability of anthropology and anthropologists to effectively address problems beyond the discipline..."

Survey of California and Other Indian Languages - From the University of California, Berkeley, Linguistics Department.

WWW Virtual Library -- Museums - Search by country for links to different museums.