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Anthropology: Home

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Library Shelf Locations

  • GN - Anthropology
  • GR- Folklore
  • GT- Manners and Customs
  • CC- Archaeology
  • BL- Religions, Mythology, Rationalism
  • P1-P1091- Linguistics and Languages
  • QM- Human Anatomy

Collection Highlights

Click through to see some of the anthropology books at the library.

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Professional Associations

 

Society for Cultural Anthropology

Publishers of the open-access journal Cultural Anthropology, this organization within the American Anthropological Association publishes ethnographic writings from a variety of theoretical approaches regarding all manners of cultural anthropology topics.

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Archaeological Institute of America
Publishers of Archaeology Magazine and the American Journal of Archaeology, the Archaeological Institute of America is the oldest and largest North American archaeological association. They are dedicated to the protection, research, and understanding of archaeological resources all over the world.

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American Anthropological Association
The world's largest professional and scholarly anthropological association, the American Anthropological Association publishes 22 scholarly journals, holds biannual research conferences, and hosts a number of professional organizations concerned with the various sub-fields of anthropology.

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Society for American Archaeology
The Society for American Archaeology, an organization with the American Anthropological Association, is a group dedicated to the discovery and dissemination of archaeological findings and records. To these ends, they are involved in political and educational efforts to provide stewardship and conservation of archaeological artifacts.

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