Unofficial Subject Guide to Cyborg Anthropology

An Unofficial Subject Guide to Anthropology

(Being) Prepared by Rafael C. Alvarado, Director of Academic Technology

Resources at Dickinson

For subject assistance contact Theresa Arndt, Associate Director for Research & Instruction and library liaison to the Anthropology Department. Her number is 245-1750.

The Library of Congress Classification System, which is the call number system utilized for locating and organizing library resources, breaks Anthropology down into primarily these areas:

GN         = Anthropology.
GN49—298   = Physical anthropology. Somatology.
GN301—673  = Ethnology. Social and cultural anthropology.
GN700—890  = Prehistoric archaeology.
GN803—890  = By region or country.
D—F        = Descriptions of individual ethnic groups.

Reference Works

Encyclopedia of cultural anthropology / edited by David Levinson and Melvin Ember. New York : Henry Holt and Co., 1996. (4 vols.) Reference GN307 .E52 1996.

Encyclopedia of social and cultural anthropology / edited by Alan Barnard and Jonathan Spencer. London ; New York : Routledge, 1996. Reference GN307 .E648 1996.

Companion encyclopedia of anthropology / edited by Tim Ingold. London ; New York : Routledge, 1994. GN25 .C65 1994.

Handbook of psychological anthropology / edited by Philip K. Bock. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1994. Reference GN502 .H363 1994.

History of physical anthropology / edited by Frank Spencer. New York : Garland Pub., 1997. (2 vols.) Reference GN50.3 .H57 1997.

Fieldwork in the library : a guide to research in anthropology and related area studies / R.C. Westerman. Chicago : American Library Association, 1994. Reference GN42 .W47 1994.

Encyclopedia of social theory / editor George Ritzer. Thousand Oaks, CA : Sage Publications, c2005. (2 vols.) Reference HM425 .E47 2004.

Dictionary of the social sciences / edited by Craig Calhoun. New York : Oxford University Press, 2002. Reference H41 .D53 2002.

International encyclopedia of the social sciences. David L. Sills, editor Sills, David L. [New York] Macmillan [1968]. (17 vols.) Reference H40 .A2 I5