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Cultural Anthropology

Ref.: Franz Boas posing for Kwakiutl Hamatsa figure group at the Smithsonian Institution, 1895.

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Databases are great sources for finding information for your research paper. In databases, you will find peer-reviewed or scholarly articles, news articles, videos, and more for your research. Databases pull their information from a variety of Journals and other sources and compile it so that it is more easily found by the researcher. It is important to note that not any one database contains all the information a researcher needs, so be sure to check across several databases when searching for information. 

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Database is what is created when a large number of electronic journals are put in one place and a search interface (usually a search box) is added to help find what you need. Both databases and electronic journals can be subject specific. When you have a database that only has the title or abstract, but not the full text, it is usually referred to as an Index.

Subject Terms

The following is a partial list of subject headings related to Cultural Anthropology that can be used to locate articles, books, and other items in the FAU Libraries Catalog.

  • Altruism
  • Case Study
  • Cultural Relativity
  • Culture
  • Ethnocentricism 
  • Ethnography
  • Folklore
  • Franz Boas
  • Globalization
  • Linguistics 
  • Margaret Mead
  • Medical Anthropology
  • Ruth Benedict 
  • Subculture

Databases Specific to Anthropology

Video Resources in Anthropology

General Databases

Locating Full-Text Articles

Select Find it @ FAU if the article you are looking for does not appear as full text in the database.

Last updated on Feb 23, 2024 3:31 PM