Top of the page encyclopedias and guides Interdisciplinary courses often involve areas of study with which you may not have much familiarity. Encyclopedias and other general reference works can help you develop a general feel for a discipline's history and methodological quirks, and they can be invaluable guides to disciplinary jargon. A good source of general information on historical and contemporary concepts in cultural anthropology. Provides detailed information on thousands of cultural groups. 40 .A2 I5 Similar to the Encyclopedia of Cultural Anthropology but broader in scope.
Indexes describe the contents of journals and other publications.
There is never any guarantee that an item listed in an index is held here at Carleton. Indexes Allows simultaneous searches of important indexes in art history, the humanities, biology, agriculture, business, social sciences and general-interest publications. Each is important in its own right as a straightforward record of scholarly literature, but WoS' real strength lies in its ability to find articles which cite a given work. Project Muse Provides the full text of nearly sixty scholarly journals, including Configurations and English Literary History . The key index in the field.