Reference works

Reference works such as handbooks and encyclopedias are useful for definitions of terms and for brief factual information. The dictionaries and encyclopedias will provide you with:

• definitions of anthropological concepts
• ethnic and cultural groups worldwide
• known anthropologists and their works

This is just a selection. To find other dictionaries and encyclopedias use the library catalogue. At the Search tab type your topic keyword/s and the term 'dictionaries', for example: witchcraft dictionaries.

Anthropology

Online

Blackwells Reference Online
• A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies
  Edited by: David Theo Goldberg and John Solomos
• The Blackwell Companion to Major Classical Social Theorists
  Edited by: George Ritzer
• The Blackwell Companion to Major Contemporary Social Theorists
  Edited by: George Ritzer
Gayle Virtual Reference Library
• Africa: An Encyclopedia for Students, 4v, 2002
• Encyclopedia of Anthropology, 5v, 2006
• Encyclopedia of Food and Culture, 3v, 2003
• Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity, 3v, 2005
• Encyclopedia of Global Industries, 4th ed., 2007
• Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World, 2v, 2004
• Encyclopedia of Modern Asia, 6v, 2003
• Encyclopedia of Religion, 2nd ed., 15v, 2005
• World Religions, 2004

General Works

• Anthropological glossary
• Anthropology in use : a source book on anthropological practice
• Companion encyclopedia of anthropology
• Cultural theory : the key concepts
• Dictionary of anthropology
• Dictionary of concepts in cultural anthropology
• Encyclopedia of cultural anthropology
• Encyclopedia of social and cultural anthropolog
• Macmillan dictionary of anthropology

Anthropologists

• Routledge dictionary of anthropologists

Ethnic Groups, People, Cultures

• Encyclopedia of race and ethnic studies
• Encyclopaedia of South-east Asian ethnography : communities and tribes
• Encyclopedia of the third world
• Encyclopedia of world cultures
• Oxford illustrated encyclopedia of peoples and cultures
• World directory of minorities

Social Sciences, General Works

• Blackwell dictionary of modern thought
• International encyclopedia of the social and behavioural sciences is a current and authoritative encyclopedia with extensive further readings.
• Norton dictionary of modern thought

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