SOC 306 Cultural Anthropology

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"The World Digital Library is a cooperative project of the Library of Congress, the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), and partner libraries, archives, and educational and cultural institutions from the United States and around the world. The project brings together on a single website rare and unique documents – books, journals, manuscripts, maps, prints and photographs, films, and sound recordings – that tell the story of the world’s cultures."

Extensive list of sociology related links.

DARE Database – UNESCO Database to the Social Sciences

Provides sociological commentary, data analyses, essays, and theories.

Provides links to statistics from various country and intergovernmental agencies.

The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), located within the U.S. Department of Education and the Institute of Education Sciences, is the primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data related to education.

The Statistical Abstract of the United States, published since 1878, is the authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States.

Referred to as “The official [online] gateway to all government information.”

The site offers open access journals on a wide range of academic topics.

Open Access Journal

Selected American Anthropologist articles (with the unlocked padlock icon) are free. Titles that are not free may be available through the library.

Anthropology News – features recent and ongoing anthropological research

A wide ranging list of available online resources compiled by the American Anthropological Association (AAA)

Sociologist Frank Elwell's adaptation of Marvin Harris's Cultural Materialism.