• Books in Miller Library:
  
  
  • Reference:
    
    
    • Anthropological resources: a guide to archival, library, and museum collections
    • Countries and their cultures
    • Dictionary of anthropology
    • Dictionary of Latin American racial and ethnic terminology
    • Encyclopedia of anthropology
    • Encyclopedia of cultural anthropology
    • Encyclopedia of multiculturalism
    • Encyclopedia of world cultures
    • Ethnic groups worldwide
    • Gale encyclopedia of multicultural America
    • Muslim peoples: a world ethnographic survey
    • Outline of world culture
      
      
  • Books in the main collection:
    
    
    • Subject search suggestions: start here and skim the headings
      
      • Enter a specific culture as a subject -- Mayas -- take note of the 62 subject headings and the 4 related subjects
        
      • Latin America - Civilization
      • Indians of Central America
      • Indians of South America
      • Andean Archaeology
        
        
    • Author Search:
      
• Books outside Miller Library:
  
  
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  • WorldCat
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  • Interlibrary Loan
    • free, online form, budget 1-2 weeks

• Anthropological Index Online -- from the British Museum, a major source for anthropological research, citation only, check the keyword listing, requires resourceful searching but definitely worthwhile
  
• JSTOR -- goldmine, complete full-text runs of 14 major scholarly journals in anthropology
  
• Academic Search Premier
  • 4,500+ general and academic journals, including anthropology
  • coverage from 1985+
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  • select peer-reviewed
    
• Literature Online (LION)
  • 350,000+ works of English and American poetry, drama and prose
  • 130+ full-text literature journals
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• WilsonWeb
  • 3,500+ general and academic journals, including English language and literature
  • two components: OmniFile Full Text Mega and Humanities & Social Sci Retro
  • OmniFile Full Text Mega: indexing begins in 1982, abstracts in 1984, and full-text in 1994
  • Humanities & Social Sci Retro: index only, 1907-1984
  • 1,750 journals are full-text
  • select peer-reviewed
  
  
• Check journal titles against the library's list of full-text electronic periodicals
  
  
• Interlibrary Loan
  • free, online form, budget 1-2 weeks

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• WC Department of Anthropology: Resources -- citing sources in anthropology!
• American Anthropological Association: AnthroLinks
• Anthropology Resources on the Internet
  
  
• Google: Ethnicity
• Yahoo: Anthropology and Archaeology

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• Hacker Online
  • examples