For questions, further research assistance, or one-on-one research consultations, please contact: Liz Cooper, Anthropology Librarian, (404)727-0115, liz.cooper@emory.edu

Or contact the Reference Desk at (404)727-6875 or woodref@listserv.cc.emory.edu

Call numbers for anthropology

There is no easy way to browse through anthropology books on the Library shelves. General books on anthropology are in the call number range "GN". However, most anthropology books are scattered across the collection. For example, anthropological ethnographies written about cultures are classified with the books about the country/region of the culture (e.g. Africa in "DT"; Asia, "DS"; Latin America, "F") and books from the four fields of anthropology could be scattered in almost any call number depending on the subject. Therefore, to find books on an anthropological subject, it is best to search the library's catalog, EUCLID.

Searching EUCLID (the Emory Libraries' Catalog)

EUCLID is the key to Emory's library holdings. Search it to identify books, music, videos, and magazines/journals (but not articles) that all of Emory's libraries own.

TIPS: For best searching results, try using Boolean Operators (AND, OR, NOT). You may also increasingly find many electronic materials in EUCLID.

When searching EUCLID by subject, we recommend that you select the Browse search mode. Browsing will retrieve a list of subject headings established by the Library of Congress. 

A sample list of LC subject headings for anthropology:

Most materials in EUCLID which say "held by GENERAL" are located in the Main Woodruff Library. See the Location Guide on this page.

Can't find the book you want?

If the book is checked out or at Oxford College or in storage....click on the Request button at the bottom of the screen while looking at the record in EUCLID. You can RECALL a book, if someone else has checked it out, and within 14 days it should be returned. If it is at Oxford, click on the ATLANTA-OXFORD LOAN option to have it delivered in a day to the library. Click on the STORAGE option to obtain materials that are marked storage. It takes 1 to 2 days to have them delivered to the library.

To find materials not available at Emory, consider using, RLIN or WorldCat , both union catalogs of items held in research and special libraries. To request items not held by Emory, complete the Interlibrary Loan form

As an Emory student, you may borrow materials from Georgia Institute of Technology, Georgia State University, and the University of Georgia using your EmoryCard.

You may also borrow materials from other local colleges/universities that are part of ARCHE: Atlanta Regional Consortium for Higher Education. Stop by the Woodruff Library Reference Desk for an Interlibrary Use Card.

To obtain materials not available at Emory University you can also place a request through Interlibrary Loan.

• Bibliographies (A bibliography is a list of sources -- books and/or journal articles -- on a particular subject.)
• Biographies
• Dictionaries
• Directories
• Dissertations
• Encyclopedias
• Grants

• Guides to the Literature (A guide to the literature offers an introduction to research methods and useful study tools in a specific or broad subject area.)
• Handbooks
• Human Relations Area Files
• Indexes, Abstracts & Databases (An index lists articles which have appeared in magazines or journals. A database is an electronic index. Some indexes include abstracts, or short summaries, of the article contents.)
• Style Manuals

To identify articles about a certain topic, you will need to search in Emory's online databases. Remember, anthropology is a wide-ranging field. The Databases webpage on Anthropology lists some of the major databases and indexes relevant to anthropology as taught at Emory. Make sure to also look at the Databases page for databases for related disciplines, such as sociology, biology, area studies, women's studies, political science, psychology, environmental studies, public policy, etc...

Emory University

• Anthropology Department
• Institute of African Studies
• Emory Center for Myth and Ritual in American Life (MARIAL)
• Center for the Study of Health, Culture and Society
• Rollins School of Public Health
• Graduate Division of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
• Department of Biostatistics
• Center for the Advanced Study of Ape and Human Evolution
• Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center
• School of Medicine

Other Anthropology Related Internet Sites

• Anthropology Resources on the Internet a great listing of various anthropology-related websites, including anthropology associations, etc. from the American Anthropological Association (AAA) website.
• Anthropology Review Database (ARD) published online by the Univeristy of Buffalo, ARD is a database of signed, refereed reviews covering the entire gamut of anthropological publications, including books, audiovisual materials, software & multimedia, exhibits, tourist sites, conferences, and on-line resources.
• Tozzer Library of Harvard College one of the world ’s pre-eminent anthropology collections.

 

Scholarly Societies

• American Anthropological Association (AAA), the primary professional society of anthropologists in the US. Their website also includes links to other anthropology societies.
• Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI), the professional society for anthropologists in Great Britain and Ireland. It is the oldest professional society of anthropologists.
• Southern Anthropological Society (SAS)

   

Centers, Institutes and Organizations

• Anthropology at the Smithsonian Institution
  • Joseph F. Cullman 3rd Library of Natural History The Cullman Library holds the Smithsonian's collection of rare books in anthropology and the natural sciences. Its world-class collection contains approximately 10,000 volumes published before 1840 in the fields of physical and cultural anthropology, ethnology, Native American linguistics, and archeology; botany; ornithology, mammalogy, herpetology, ichthyology, entomology, malacology, and other zoological fields; paleontology; and geology and mineralogy.
  • National Museum of Natural History: Anthropology Good website with online exhbits, links to the museum's archives, collections, and anthropology research programs websites.
• Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology and Max Planck Institute for Physical Anthropology, two institutes that are part of the prestigious German research institute, the Max Planck Society. Websites includes links to working papers and other publications.
• School of American Research (Santa Fe, NM) a center for advanced study in anthropology, the humanities, and Native American Art.
• Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research is a major funding organization for anthroplogical research. Their website includes abstracts and bibliographies of funded projects, symposium reports, occasional papers, etc.