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Anthropological Index (AnthropologicalIndex)

Physical anthropology, archaeology, cultural ethnography, and linguistics

Why select this database?

  • An essential periodical index for the fields of physical anthropology, archaeology, cultural ethnography and linguistics
  • Offers access to more than 900 journals in the British Museum's Anthropology Library
  • Contains information from a broad geographical range, emphasizing the Commonwealth and extending to Eastern Europe ethnography and the Americas.
Database details
Subjects
anthropology linguistics
archaeology material culture
demography museum studies
ethnology primatology
folklore sociological anthropology
human ecology  
Sources 1,500

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Number of records Over 335,000
Dates covered 1957 to present
Updated 8 to 12 times a year
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Keyword kw: toto ethnography
Accession number no: XRAI07810
Author au: masagbor
masagbor grace
Author phrase au= mcdonough joyce m
[last name first]
Descriptor de: cultural
Descriptor phrase de= cultural anthropology
First page pg: 51
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Issue is: 2
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Language phrase ln= french
Notes nt: social life
Publication date pd: 1964
Source so: cultural research
Source phrase so= bulletin of the cultural research institute
Standard number sn: 0539-0184
Subject su: perception
Subject phrase su= time perception
Title ti: material culture
Title phrase ti= french anthropology and material culture
Volume vo: 3
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Year yr: 1963
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