Research Guides: SOC / ANT 506: Comparative Cultural Systems: Journal articles

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Sociological Abstracts (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
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indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. The database provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,800+ serials publications, and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers.
Anthrosource This link opens in a new window
It is a CMU subscription which includes the full text of current and legacy content from journals published by the American Anthropological Association.

American History and Life
the coverage is prehistory to present
AnthroBase
AnthroBase is a multilingual, searchable database of articles, theses, essays, reports, conference papers, field-notes etc., written by anthropologists and others with an interest in social and cultural diversity. (a free internet source)
HighWire Press Online Journals
A archive collection of full text access to 1713 journals.

Historical Abstracts (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
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Historical Abstracts covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present, including world history, military history, women's history, history of education, and more. This database provides indexing of more than 1,700 academic historical journals in over 40 languages back to 1955.
Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective: 1907-1984 (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
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This database offers a broad range of subject coverage in the humanities and social sciences and indexes more than 1,300,000 articles in nearly 1,100 periodicals, dating as far back as 1907, as well as citations of over 240,000 book reviews.
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CMU subscription - JSTOR offers interdisciplinary content including more than 1,500 academic journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
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This database abstracts and indexes the international literature in linguistics and related disciplines in the language sciences. The database covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. Documents indexed include journal articles, book reviews, books, book chapters, dissertations and working papers.

National Anthropological Archives
collect and preserve historical and contemporary anthropological materials that document the world's cultures and the history of anthropology. Their collections represent the four fields of anthropology – ethnology, linguistics, archaeology, and physical anthropology – and include fieldnotes, journals, manuscripts, correspondence, photographs, maps, sound recordings, film and video created by Smithsonian anthropologists and other preeminent scholars. (a free internet source)
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SOC / ANT 506: Comparative Cultural Systems: Journal articles

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