Anthropology Resources

Finding Books

CONSORT is the shared catalog of the Kenyon, Denison, Ohio Wesleyan, and Wooster Libraries.

OhioLINK is a catalog containing the collections of 85 libraries throughout Ohio. OhioLINK members include all academic libraries in Ohio as well as a few public libraries.

Kenyon students, faculty and staff may request materials from other CONSORT or OhioLINK libraries. If you are unable to find a specific item in CONSORT or OhioLINK, try using WorldCat, a catalog which contains the holdings of over 9,000 institutions worldwide. To request an item found in WorldCat, you will need to use our Interlibrary Loan form.

Finding Journal Articles

Library catalogs (CONSORT and OhioLINK) do not contain information about individual articles within journals. You will need to search an index or database to find citations for articles or, in many cases, the full-text of the articles themselves.

When you have identified a promising article, check CONSORT or OhioLINK to determine which library holds copies of the journal that you need. Remember to search by the journal title, not the title of the article. If Kenyon does not own the journal or it is not available online, you will need to request the article using the Interlibrary Loan form.

 

Article Indexes and Databases

Anthropology Plus (1983 - )
This resource combines formerly two separate databases: Anthropological Literature and Anthropological Index. This resource indexes articles from over 1,000 journals and 200 edited works each year in anthropology and related fields. Focus is on the fields of archaeology, cultural and social anthropology, biological and physical anthropology, and linguistics. It also covers the periodical collection of the British Museum Department of Ethnography (Museum of Mankind). Entries are compiled from over 750 journals received in the Department of Ethnography. It also includes citations from related fields, e.g. botany, demography, folklore, religion, etc.

Social Science Citation Index (1980 - ) [Part of the ISI Web of Knowledge]
Social Science Citation indexes 1,700 journals spanning 50 disciplines, as well as covering individually selected, relevant items from over 3,300 of the world's leading scientific and technical journals. It contains searchable, full-length, English-language author abstracts for approximately 60% of the articles in the database.

Abstracts in Anthropology (1980 - )
[On the Reference Shelves - REF GN A15 V53]
Provides indexing and abstracting of anthropology periodicals. The subject and author indexes, which are cumulated annually, refer you to abstract numbers within the volume which summarize the articles.

Academic Search Complete
A comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database designed specifically for academic institutions. This resource contains more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. In addition, Academic Search Complete offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,300 journals and a total of 10,900 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1865, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format.

Social Sciences Abstracts [1994- ]
Indexes and abstracts articles from English-language periodicals published in the United States and elsewhere. Coverage includes a wide range of interdisciplinary fields covered in a broad array of social sciences journals.

ELECTRONIC JOURNALS

Focus Anthropology
A peer-reviewed publication of undergraduate research and photography in all fields of anthropology: cultural, biological, archaeological, or linguistic. Published by Kenyon College anthropology majors.

JSTOR
Provides access to the full content of a variety of scholarly journals. Coverage generally begins with volume one of a journal, and ends 2-5 years from the present. Journals may be browsed or searched. Includes the anthropology journal listed below. In addition, there are a number of interdisciplinary journals.

Electronic Journal Center
The EJC includes the full content of nearly 7,300 academic journals in a variety of subjects. You can search or browse the entire collection, or just review the Anthropology section.

Finding Images

AP Images
A collection of pictures, graphics, text, and audio from the Associated Press. The print negative archive contains over 50 million photographs. Graphics Database is a professionally produced collection of approximately 14,500 maps, graphs, charts, logos, flags, illustrations, etc. that are ideal for multimedia presentations. The Text Database features 800,000 news stories written by AP writers, dating back from 1997. The AP Audio Database contains over half a million searchable audio clips dating back to the 1920s, with clips as recent as 48 hours.

OhioLINK Digital Media Center
Includes more than 65,000 images, covering art and architecture, historical and archival images, maps of Ohio towns and cities, and more.
Mayan Archaeology Digital Photographs

Using Reference Resources

These types of resources can be used for a quick overview of a topic. They can also be useful for finding citations to works which can help you further your research.

General Anthropology Print Resources

Encyclopedia of Anthropology [Ref. GN11 E63 2006]
A five volume encyclopedia which studies topics related to human evolution, human culture, and human reality in a global context. This collection reports on humans as biological and cultural beings. Includes a bibliography for each entry.

Encyclopedia of Cultural Anthropology [Ref. GN307 .E52 1996]
This four volume encyclopedia covers all of the sub-fields, important persons, topics, concepts, and organizations in the field of cultural anthropology. Each essay also includes a bibliography for further research.

Encyclopdia of Human Geography [Ref. GF4 E54 2006]
This encyclopedia studies how humans use the surface of the Earth, how social phenomena are distributed spacially, and how human beings bring space into consciousness.

History of Physical Anthropology: An Encyclopedia [Ref. GN 50.3 .H57 1997]
This two volume encyclopedia covers the major areas and subfields of the discipline. It also includes biographical sketches of major and minor figures in the field and entries on the history and development of the discipline in countries around the world.

Encyclopedia of Prehistory [Ref. GN710 E532 2000]
A nine volume encyclopedia; each volume discusses a different continent or geographic region. Provides information on all archaeologically known cultures, covering the globe and humankinds prehistory. Helpful for comparative studies.

Peoples, Nations, and Culture: An A-Z of the People's of the World, Past and Present [Ref. GN316 P38 2005]

Using Audio/Visual Equipment and Software

For upper-level courses, you may need to document your research process or provide visual images. LBIS has camcorders, digital cameras, DVD players, and other A-V equipment available for you to borrow. Click here for a list of circulating equipment.

The Multimedia Collections Unit provides editing equipment to work on creating and manipulating digital still and moving images. Click here for more information on what is available and instructions on using the equipment.

LBIS also provides access to Atomic Learning, a collection of short, easy-to-view and understand tutorial movies that answer common questions people have when learning and using software. It includes more than 20,000 individual tutorial movies, which cover more than 100 software applications.