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

People

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

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

Library Catalog Info

Dickinson uses the Library of Congress Classification System to organize library resources. It divides Anthropology into 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.

Blogs

• :: antropologi.info ::
• Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology (A Group Blog)
• Anthropology.net
• Open Access Anthropology
• Culture Matters
• Digital Ethnography
• Boas Blog

Societies

• American Anthropological Association (AAA)
• Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA)
• National Association for the Practice of Anthropology (NAPA)
• National Association of Student Anthropologists (NASA)
• Consortium of Practicing & Applied Anthropology Programs (COPAA)