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Anthropology
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Anthropology Databases
AnthroSource (American Anthropological Association)
AnthroSource offers access to more than a century of full-text anthropological knowledge across the discipline.
eHRAF World Cultures
This database contains ethnographic collections covering all aspects of cultural and social life.
JSTOR - Journal Storage (ITHAKA)
JSTOR includes academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.
NDSU subscribes to the following archival journal collections: Arts & Sciences I, II, III, IV, VII, and VIII, as well as the Language and Literature and Life Sciences collections. For more information on collection subject coverage and title lists, please visit http://about.jstor.org/journals.
Expanded coverage includes eBooks through Aug. 31, 2020 and access to unsubscribed content through Dec. 31, 2020. This includes 26 journal archives in public health, and more than 6,000 articles related to COVID-19.
Project MUSE (Johns Hopkins University Press)
Provides digital humanities and social sciences content in full text, as well as, subscription access to current content from scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences.
Multidiscplinary Databases
Academic Search Premier (EBSCO)
This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 4,500 journals, including full text from 1975-present for more than 3,700 peer-reviewed titles.
This database indexes literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. Dated back to 1910.
Google Scholar (Google)
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. If using Google Scholar off-campus, please follow these instructions to set your preferences to connect to NDSU Library resources.
Historical Abstracts (EBSCO)
Representing scholarship from more than 90 countries, the database includes book citations, dissertations and theses, and coverage extends to related disciplines such as archeology, anthropology and sociology.
Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) - 1900-present (Clarivate Analytics)
Accessed via Web of Science®, this database provides access to the bibliographic and citation information needed to find research data, analyze trends, journals and researchers, and share findings in the social sciences.
Browse the Shelves
Research Collection
CC Archaeology
CC 72 - 81 Philosophy, theory, methodology
CC 135 - 137 Preservation, restoration, conservation
CN Inscriptions, epigraphy
GF Human ecology, anthropogeography
GF 51 Environmental influences on humans
GF 75 Human influences on the environment
GN Anthropology
GN 49 - 298 Physical anthropology
GN 296 - 296.5 Medical anthropology
GN 301 - 674 Ethnology, social and cultural anthropology
GN 397 - 397.7 Applied anthropology
GN 406 - 442 Cultural traits, customs, institutions
GN Anthropology
GN 301 - 674 Ethnology, social and cultural anthropology
GN 537 - 674 Ethnic groups and races
GN 700 - 890 Prehistoric archaeology
GR Folklore
GR 72 - 79 Folk literature (general)
GR 99.6 - 390 By region or country
GR 420 - 950 By subject
GT Manners and Customs
P Philology, linguistics
P 1 - 85 General
P 101 - 410 Language, linguistic theory
Print Government Information
Physical government documents are shelved using the SuDocs (Superintendent of Documents) Classification Scheme.
Please send us a chat or speak with us in person at the Reference Desk if you need help locating a government document.
AE National Archives and Records Administration
LC Library of Congress
I Interior Department
ID US Agency for International Development
SI Smithsonian Institution
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Online Archives
ArchiveGrid (OCLC)
ArchiveGrid is an important destination for searching through historical documents, personal papers, and family histories held in archives around the world.
The diverse collections of the Department of Anthropology are an unparalleled resource containing historical and contemporary materials that document the world's cultures and history of anthropology.
Online Ethnographies
The Anthropological Papers, published continuously since 1907, are monographic volumes that include some of the great ethnographies of the 20th century, particularly on North American Indians.
The EVIA Digital Archive Project is a collaborative endeavor to create a digital archive of ethnographic field video for use by scholars and instructors.
Online Image Collections
The Image Database includes photographs from original excavations and personal collections, as well as images of artifacts within the Museum's collections.
Online database of information describing photographs taken by Works Progress Administration (WPA) in preparation for Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) dam construction in the 1930s.
