Topics include race, postmodernism, witchcraft, magic and methodology. Each reference contains cross references and a bibliographic guide to further reading. Each entry includes a bibliography of films and an alternate name index. Each volume contains essays by specialists on specific aspects of Indian life, with an extensive bibliography and detailed index. A source of basic information on the major prehistoric cultures, archaeological sites, and artifact types of North America.
Entries are cross referenced and there is some statistical data.
Entries range from broad overviews, to treatments of particular themes, to discussions of peoples, societies and particular sites. Published eight times per year, this publication covers mostly English-language periodicals in anthropology, and gives summaries for the citations. Author and subject indexes, referring to abstract numbers, plus annual cumulated indexes, make this anthropology source simple to use. 1972- Full text articles covering a broad range of topics within anthropology. The online version does not cover the previous five years.