Anthropology Subject Guide
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Films: Use WestCat to search the Libraries collection of films on videotape. Choose the Guided Keyword search and click on More Limits. Under Medium choose Videorecording and click button to set limit. This will return you to the Guided Keyword search screen. Enter a term in one of the boxes in order to search all videos the term will apply to. Caution: a search using anthropology or archaeology may not return all films in these broader categories. A good strategy is to try the broad categories, then follow up with more specific terms. For example, to generate a list of films for the Caribbean enter: caribbean
A growing, searchable collection of over 150 videos covering the study of human culture and behavior including the work of many of the most influential documentary filmmakers of the 20th century, including interviews, previously unreleased raw footage, field notes, study guides, and more. Upon completion this will contain more than 1,000 videos.
Several thousand streaming videos which allows searching for specific video segments, organize videos into folders, create personal playlists for your students to view, and even create customized bookmarks within any program. Includes videos from the Humanities & Social Sciences, Business & Economics, Science & Mathematics, and Health & Medicine collections.
Films for Anthropological Teaching
GN42.3 .Z9 H44 1995
"An annotated guide to 1,575 films, including price and distributor. Arranged by film title; indexed by geographical area, subject, distributor, & persons involved."
An excellent scholarly directory of languages of the world describing a total of more than 6,700 living languages. Entries provide information on population, dialects, immigrant languages, bilingualism, ecological setting, availability of dictionaries and the Bible. Can be searched by country, language family, or language name files to find demographic linguistic information.
The electronic Human Relations Area Files is a full-text cross-cultural database that contains over 350,000 pages of information on all aspects of cultural and social life written by social scientists, travelers and missionaries. Information is organized into cultures and ethnic groups and the sources are subject-indexed at the paragraph level. Updated annually. Coverage: 1866 to the present.
An index to thousands of oral histories in English from collections on the public Web, gathered from repositories, libraries and archives around the world. When possible, interview transcripts, sometimes with audio or video, are included. There are numerous ways to search the interviews. Updated regularly.