Anthropology
Finding library resources for Anthropology
Background Information - Latin Ameria
Locating Books on Latin America
- Library Search Box
- Center for Research Libraries - Digital Collections
- HathiTrust Digital Libray - over a million full text documents for Latin America
- Brazilian and Portuguese history and culture. The Oliveira Lima Library -full text documents
- Sabin Americana, 1500-1926 - full text documents
- World scholar. Latin America & the Caribbean- full text documents
Locating Peer-Reviewed Articles on Latin America
While you can use the library search box to locate academic articles, it is often more useful to use a specialized database such as:
- Annual Reviews - extensive overviews of the literature published on a variety of topics
- Anthropology Plus
- HAPI - Hispanic American Periodicals Index
- Dialnet - index to over 1,000 open access journals - mostly in Spanish
- JSTOR - Note you can use advanced search to limit results to anthropology
- Scielo - index to full text documents majority on Brazil
Also good to consult the specialized databases for subject area of your topic, for example: Religion, Medicine, Sociology
Other sources for journal articles (and books)
Locating Newspaper Articles on Latin America
- Factiva - full text of major Latin American newspapers. Can limit search to particular religion
Other Resources for Ethnographic Research on Latin America
- CIAO: Columbia International Affairs Online - full text of papers, articles, policy documents etc. Significant content for Latin America
- LANIC - Portal to Latin America Resources on the Web
- LAPOP: Latin America Public Opinion Project - provides full text documents - mostly in Spanish
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