• Books in Miller Library:
  
  
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    • 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 cultures
       
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    • Ethnology -- check the related subjects in addition to the subheadings
      
      
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• Academic Search Premier
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• Anthropological Index Online (AIO)
  • based on the journal holdings of the Anthropology Library at the British Museum
  • coverage from 1957+
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• AnthroSource
  • the premier online resource serving the research, teaching, and professional needs of anthropologists
  • developed by the American Anthropologist Association (AAA)
  • brings 100 years of anthropological material online
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• JSTOR
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• Project MUSE
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• WilsonWeb
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  • two components: OmniFile Full Text Mega; Humanities & Social Sci Retro
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• Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology. Bulletin
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• Lexis-Nexis Academic
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• Anthropology Review Database
  
  
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• Hacker Online
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• American Anthropological Association (AAA) Style Guide (pdf)


• RefWorks
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