Anthropology 303 Anthropological Thought: How to use the Resources

• Biographical information about a single anthropologist
• Focus of research (highlights of books, chapters, articles written)
• Environmental scan of archaeological thought at the time and predecessors
• Society's impact upon research

Biographical Information

1. Institutional association listed in published articles
2. Detailed biographical entries in:
   • International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences
   • Anthropological lives: biographies of eminent anthropologists (print) Floor 2 GN 41.6 E87 1993
   • Visions of culture: an introduction to anthropological theories and theorists (print) Floor 2 GN33.M587 2004
   • Search the term anthropologists as a subject in the library catalog (books about), or the name of the anthropologist as subject
   • Search the anthropologist as author (books written by) and by subject in WorldCat (use ILL to borrow if CSUN does not own)
3. Personal web pages (Google)
4. Wikipedia (as last resort only; check bibliography and check our catalog and WorldCat for books about the anthropologist (name as subject)
5. Articles with name of anthropologist as a subject or in the title

Articles / book chapters / books written by the anthropologist

1. AnthropologyPlus: indexes articles by (and about) anthropologists; names may be entered under different forms; for example, Marcus, G. ; Marcus G. E.; Marcus, George E., Marcus George Emanuel
2. Sociological Abstracts (some cross over between disciplines; may need to search other discipline specific databases)
3. Anthrosource: full text of publications by the American Anthropological Association; backfiles in JSTOR. Search by Author name
4. JSTOR: archival (at least 2-3 years old) articles in anthropology and related fields from a variety of publishers. Search by Author name

Environmental Scan / Impact

1. Annual Review of Anthropology: Literature review of the field of anthropology; search anthropologists name
2. Social Science Citation Index (back door only)

Search for articles that cite your anthropologists. This interface will only give you the title of the article which cites her/him. Use the title to find the full citation by searching JSTOR, Anthrosource, Google Scholar or using Metasearch. Please note the examples of how to search for a name: Lastname FirstInitial? (no comma between the last name and firstname; search compound names in different combinations)

1. Google scholar (citation searching)