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Anthropology

A guide for finding Anthropology reference materials, books, periodicals and articles, career resources, and web sites.

Finding Books, eBooks, Audio Visuals etc.

Use the Library Catalog to search the main collection for print resources and ebooks. The Library Catalog also provides location and availability details.

TIPS:

  • Click on the book title to see subject headings (example below), if you're having trouble coming up with the right keywords to find your books or articles. 
  • Use truncation, for example if searching for political or politics, you can type polit* and get any form of the root word before the *

Subject terms in the library catalog use the Library of Congress Subject Headings. There are 891 resources in our library catalog with the subject heading Anthropology. Below are a few examples of related subjects that you can do a subject or keyword search for in the library catalog and bring up lists of books about:

  • Applied anthropology
  • Ethnology - Cultural Anthropology
  • Forensic Anthropology
  • Human Remains Archaeology
  • Medical Anthropology
  • Medical anthropology -- Research -- Methodology.
  • Medical anthropology -- Methodology.
  • Physical anthropology
  • Public health Anthropological aspects
  • Public health -- Anthropological aspects -- Research -- Methodology.
  • Public health -- Anthropological aspects -- Methodology.

Locating Books by Library of Congress Call Number

Library Catalog record explained: 

  • Location, Floor Consult a call number map to find them.
  • Call Number (the book's address on the shelf)
  • Status (whether the book is Available or if someone else has it checked out)

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Reading a call number

Books are arranged on the shelves by their Library of Congress call numbers. You can think of this number as an address for the book. Break it down and read it one line at a time as follows:

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Line 1: Call numbers are arranged first in alphabetical order. All books with call numbers that start with LC will be between L and LD.

Line 2: Within the LC call numbers, books are arranged in number orderLC 5131 will be between LC 5000 and LC 5150 

Line 3The last part of the call number consists of a letter and a number. The letters are read in alphabetical order. Read the numbers as decimal numbers, not whole numbers, so .T75 is read as T.75 -- LC 5131 .T75 is between LC 5131 .T70 and LC 5131 .T8