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Anthropology Research Guide
Library Research Help
It may have been a while since you had a library session, and we have a new "SHUsearch" (the search box on the library home page) so things have changed a bit. So you might find the training videos that our wonderful instruction librarian Maria made for first year English:
I'm also attaching Maria's great power point on "power and authority in higher education publishing" which is especially relevant for our class.
Important Journals
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Medical AnthropologyMedical Anthropology provides a global forum for scholarly articles on the social patterns of ill-health and disease transmission, and experiences of and knowledge about health, illness and well being.
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Medical Anthropology QuarterlyMedical Anthropology Quarterly publishes research and theory in all areas of medical anthropology. Its goal is to stimulate development of important theory, methods, and debates in medical anthropology and to explore the links between medical anthropology, the broader field of anthropology, and neighboring fields in the humanities, social sciences, and health-related disciplines, including public health and clinical medicine.
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Journal of Religion & HealthJournal of Religion and Health explores the most contemporary modes of religious and spiritual thought with particular emphasis on their relevance to current medical and psychological research.
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Anthropology & HumanismJournal of the Society for Humanistic Anthropology. recognizes that professional inquiry takes place in a context of human value. The humanistic orientation is particularly concerned with the personal, ethical, and political choices facing humans.
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Human OrganizationHuman Organization is the journal of the Society for Applied Anthropology and the leading peer reviewed outlet for scholarship in the applied social sciences.
Databases
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Anthrosource This link opens in a new windowAnthroSource is the premier online portal serving the research, teaching and practicing needs of anthropologists. An online service of the American Anthropological Association (AAA), AnthroSource offers access to more than 100 years of anthropological knowledge. AnthroSource provides current content from AAA's diverse portfolio of 32 anthropological publications which includes journals, books, monographs, bulletins and newsletters.
Professional Societies
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Society for Medical Anthropology he Society for Medical Anthropology (SMA), formed in 1967 and incorporated into the American Anthropological Association (AAA) in 1971, is dedicated to the profession and practice of medical anthropology, which uses concepts and methods from anthropology to produce new understandings of health, disease, illness, treatment, and care.
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Society for Humanistic Anthropology The Society for Humanistic Anthropology (SHA) was first discussed at the 1974 meeting of the American Anthropological Association in Mexico City to open a dialogue on the means by which anthropologists might evoke, represent, or give account of the human subject both visually and in writing
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Society for the Anthropology of Religion The Society for the Anthropology of Religion is a section of the American Anthropological Association (AAA).We seek to facilitate the research and teaching of the anthropology of religion. We wish to support anthropological approaches to the study of religion from all the subdisciplines: cultural anthropology, archaeology, physical anthropology, linguistic anthropology and others.