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The Anthropology Department at the University of Utah focuses primarily on regional prehistory and ethnography. It has a special emphasis on genetics,behavioral ecology, demography, hunter-gatherers, and evolutionary approaches to human behavior. Regional expertise is strongest in Africa, Australia, New Guinea, the Middle East, and western North America.

Marie Paiva (library subject specialist) | U of U  Department of Anthropology| Laurence Loeb (Department Representative)

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Anthropological Index Online
Anthrosource
Art Full Text
Biosis Previews/Biological Abstracts
Cambridge Biological and Medical Sciences
CIA World Factbook
CINAHL

Country Watch
Digital Dissertations
Early Encounters in North America
eHRAF The web version of the Human Relations Area Files, a partial collection of ethnographic and other texts.
Family & Society Studies Worldwide
GPO Monthly Catalog
LLBA

Medline Ebsco
MLA Bibliography
Music Index Online
Sociological Abstracts
Web of Knowledge
WorldCat
Zoological Record

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UNIS (help)
Lists items owned by UofU Marriott, Math, and Quinney Law Libraries and periodicals they subscribe to. Tells where book is shelved and whether it is checked out. Search the Eccles Health Science Library catalog for medicine, nursing, pharmacy materials.

Worldcat (help)
A combined catalog of over 14,000 libraries from around the world. WorldCat lists over 40,000,000 items. You can place an interlibrary loan request for items found in other libraries while online. The book will be sent here.

Dictionary of Anthropology GN11 .D48 1986 Level One
Contains concise articles on subjects; its format resembles an expanded dictionary. Biographies are included, focus on 20th century socio-cultural anthropologists.

Companion Encyclopedia of Anthropology GN25 .C65 1994 General Reference Level Three
Organizes topical articles into sections by humanity, culture and social life. Contains 38 articles written by anthropologists. Each article contains a bibliography.

Encyclopedia of World Cultures GN550 .E53 1991 General Reference Level Three
The definitive guide to the subject and without parallel in its comprehensive treatment. Each volume is devoted to a geographic area. Each volume includes an ethnic names index, bibliographies, filmographies, maps and a list of cultures.

Grove Dictionary of Art Online
Contains 45,000 articles on every aspect of the visual arts: painting, sculpture, graphic arts, architecture, decorative arts and photography, from prehistory to the present day.

Grove Music Online
Grove Music Online comprises the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians.

http://www.aaanet.org/
The American Anthropological Association site.

http://www.physanth.org/
American Association of physical anthropology which lists information on careers and graduate programs.

http://www.saa.org/
Society of American Anthropology lists details of government affairs, careeer opportunities and meetings.

http://www.archaeological.org/
The Archeological Institute of America is the oldest association in North America dealing with world archaeology.

http://www.aaanet.org/sla/
Society for Linguistic Anthropology advances the study of language in its social and cultural context.

http://www.medanthro.net/
Society for Medical Anthropology contains academic resources and interest groups.

http://ethnobotany.yage.net/
Ethnobotany Garden has some interesting links to the field.

http://www.si.edu/
Smithsonian Museum Web site has information on exhibitions, events, and research.

http://www.folklife.si.edu/index.html
This is the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage and contains resources and publications.

http://www.mexicocity.com.mx/mantro.html
The National Anthropology Museum of Mexico.

http://www.civilization.ca/cmc/cmce.asp
Canadian Museum of Civilization.

http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/
British Museum site.

http://www.cyberpursuits.com/archeo/ne-arch.asp
Resources from the Near and Middle East region.

http://www.publicanthropology.org
This Web site illuminates areas beyond the discipline to foster social change.

http://www.culturalsurvival.org
Their goal is to promote rights, voices, and visions of indigenous people.

http://archnet.asu.edu
Contains a virtual library of archaeology.

http://www.forensicanthro.com
This has some good forensic anthropology sources.

http://www.radicalanthropology.com
This contains information on new thinking in current anthropology.

http://wings.buffalo.edu/ARD/
This is a searchable database of anthropology resources.

Geographic Areas:
Africa:

http://www.fieldmuseum.org/research_collections/anthropology/anthro_sites/anthro3/africa/africa.htm
This is from the Field Museum and points to some of their collections.

http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/dz/
This is an interesting Web site specifically concerned with a group of people in Nigeria, the Mambila.

The Americas:
http://www.cast.uark.edu/other/nps/nadb/
This is an archeological database of the United States, that has maps, permits and maps and interesting findings about archeology in the Americas.This "gray literature"
represents a large portion of the primary information available on archeological sites in the U.S.

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/97/andes/
This is cool! It is one from the National Geographic Andes expedition. Tons of photos, resources and even a virtual autopsy.

http://archaeology.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=
http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ancientmexico.com%2Fperu%2Fperu.html
A site about the ancient Andes including the Inkas and includes a map.

Asia:
http://www.fmnh.org/research_collections/anthropology/anthro_sites/anthro3/asia/china.htm
Interesting photos and stories of collections of anthropological artifacts from Japan, China, Tibet and more.

Europe:
http://www.h-net.org/~sae/links/#Anthro
A link to a lot of different links that might interest anthropologists studying Europe.

http://archaeology.about.com/od/westerneurope/
Different archeological websites about Western Europe’s peoples from Celtic to Northern Portugal.

Middle East:
http://almashriq.hiof.no/base/music.html
Here’s a link to a mid eastern music site, that has old songs and things as well as pictures, and sources of Arabic music.

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