Provides citations and informative annotations on reference sources, including handbooks and manuals, bibliographies, indexes, databases, literature surveys and reviews, catalogs, dissertations, book reviews, conference proceedings, and employment and grant sources. Separate sections are focused on 12 subfields of anthropology, including physical, linguistic, medical, cognitive and urban anthropology, archaeology, and anthropology of women, among others. Encyclopedias and Dictionaries Barnard, Alan and Jonathan Spencer, eds. Encyclopedia of Social and Cultural Anthropology . Contains over 250 clear, concise entries, written by specialists, on theory, history and ethnography.
Areas covered include kinship, gender and family, marriage and consumption.
Also provides over 500 brief definitions of terms and concepts in social and cultural anthropology and over 200 biographical entries. Extensive corss-references, a detailed subject index and bibliographies containing references for further reading are provided. Cayton, Marx Kupiec, ed. Encyclopedia of American Social History . This encyclopedia uses the scholarship of historians, sociologists, geographers and anthropologists to present a different view of American history.