Goddard Library has a one month trial of Anthropology Online from Alexander Street Press!
Here is how Alexander Street Press describes it:
Essential for study in the areas of politics, economics, history,
psychology, environmental studies, religion, area studies, linguistics,
and geography, the database will contain more than 100,000 pages of
material at completion, including tens of thousands of pages of
previously unpublished material from major archives.
Key names to be represented in the collection include Franz Boas (The Mind of Primitive Man), Ruth Benedict (Tales of the Cochiti Indians), Margaret Mead (Coming of Age in Samoa), Claude Levi-Strauss (Structural Anthropology), Clifford Geertz (The Interpretation of Cultures), A. R. Radcliffe-Brown (Structure and Function in Primitive Society), David MacDougall (Transcultural Cinema), Paul Rabinow (Essays on the Anthropology of Reason), E. E. Evans-Pritchard (Nuer Religion) and Bronislaw Malinowski (Argonauts of the Western Pacific). Other targeted names include James Clifford, Marshall Sahlins, Karl Heider, Napoleon Chagnon, and many more.
All aspects of human behavior are thoroughly covered in the collection,
including kinship, family, race, material culture, marriage, gender,
prehistory, evolution, kinesthetics, food and foraging, cooking,
economic systems, social stratification and status, male and female
roles, political organization, conflict and conflict resolution,
religion and magic, music and the arts, and much more. Alexander
Street’s indexing allows the content to be searchable by geographical
region, cultural or kinship group, anthropological subjects, and more.
Here's what one review source has to say about it:
Anthropology Online is like an explorer’s attic, bursting with
written ethnographies, field notes, memoirs, and contemporary studies
about the peoples of the world." –Library Journal
Find it under the Articles and More... tab. Then choose Trial Databases. On-campus use only.
The trial ends October 20th. Check it out and let us know what you think!
