Research Guides: ANT238 Ethnography of Latin America: Databases and Journals

Journals

Selected Titles

American Anthropologist

American Ethnologist

Anthropological Quarterly

Anthropology Newsletter

JRAI (Journal of the Royal Anthropological Inst.)

Latin American Anthropological Review

Social Anthropology

General Reference Databases

Gale Virtual Reference Library
Excellent place to get an overview of terms and concepts you may be unfamiliar with.
Oxford Reference Online Premium
Search across authoritative dictionaries, encyclopedia and reference books for definitions and background information.
Google Scholar
Provides a search of scholarly literature across man disciplines, formats, and sources, including theses, books, abstracts, and articles.
Lexis-Nexis Academic
Comprehensive database with extensive sources on a wide range of academic research projects.

Academic OneFile This link opens in a new window
General academic database
Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
General academic database.

Databases for Journal Articles on Athropology

Try a few of the databases below to find relavant materials for your research.

AnthroSource This link opens in a new window
An online service of American Anthropological Association, AnthroSource offers access to more than a century of full-text anthropological knowledge, across the breadth and depth of the discipline. Discover scientific research information in the field of anthropology at your fingertips.

Anthropological Index Online
Searches journal articles from the catalog of the Royal Anthropological Institute in cooperation with the Centre for Anthropology, British Museum. Covers a broad geographical range, emphasizing the Commonwealth and Africa, and extending to Eastern and Central European ethnography and the Americas. Entries are compiled from over 700 journals reflecting all branches of anthropology and date from the 1950s to the present.
Country Studies
Information about countries world-wide from the Library of Congress, updated from their printed publications.
General Science Full Text
A bibliographic database that indexes articles of at least one column in length from English-language periodicals published in the United States and Great Britain. Periodical coverage includes popular science magazines as well as professional journals. Subjects covered: Astronomy, Atmospheric Science, Biology, Botany, Chemistry, Conservation, Earth Science, Environment, Food, Genetics, Health, Mathematics, Medicine, Microbiology, Nutrition, Oceanography, Physics, Physiology, Zoology.
J-STOR
is a multi-disciplinary database containing full text journals in disciplines such as History, Economics, Asian Studies, Political Science, Population, Sociology, and Statistics as well as core titles in African, Latin American, Slavic, and Middle Eastern studies.
National Geographic Magazine Archive, 1888-1994
Featuring the complete archive of the magazine to the mid-1990s, National Geographic Magazine Archive, 1888-1994, includes every page and every photograph, all fully searchable through an intuitive interface.
Project Muse
Offers nearly 250 journal titles from 40 scholarly publishers.
SCOPUS
Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature and quality web sources with smart tools to track, analyze and visualize research.

Social Explorer
Social Explorer is a premier U.S. demographics website. Online tools help visually analyze and understand the demography of the United States through the use of interactive graphics and maps.

Social Sciences Full Text
Selected scholarly periodicals in the social sciences (anthropology, political science, sociology, geography and economics, etc.) Coverage: 1983-present
SocINDEX with Full Text
Features more than 1,600,000 records with subject headings from a 15,600 term sociological thesaurus designed by subject experts and expert lexicographers. Coverage dates as far back as 1895
World History Collection
Contains cover-to-cover full text for more than 150 titles, including many peer-reviewed journals. Full text dates as far back as 1964. Cover a wide range of historical topics including anthropology, art, culture, economics, government, heritage, military, politics, regional issues, and more.
World Scholar: Latin American & the Caribbean
This database serves the needs of students and researchers by bringing together in a single place a rich collection of primary source documents about Latin America and the Caribbean; academic journals and news feeds covering the region; reference articles and commentary; maps and statistics; audio and video; and more.