Research Guides: Anthropology: Cultural

Article Databases

AnthroSource
Full-text database with American Anthropological Association publications, including journals and newsletters.
eHRAF World Cultures
Ethnographic materials covering all aspects of cultural and social life worldwide. eHRAF is unique in having subject indexing at the paragraph level. This allows detailed and precise searching for concepts not easily found with keywords.
JSTOR
Access the full-text of thousands of scholarly journals and books covering the humanities, social sciences, and business. Many journals extend to the first volume. Auraria Library has access to the JSTOR Archival Journals and Primary Sources Collection.
Project Muse
Full text access to scholarly journals and books in the arts, literature, history, ethnic studies, philosophy, religion, music, anthropology, education, film and media studies, political sciences, mathematics, gender studies, and related areas.

OAIster
Identifies and often links to primary resources residing in digital repositories worldwide. See Auraria Library's Primary Reources guide and the eBooks Guide for more digital repository options.

American Ethnologist
A quarterly journal concerned with social and cultural anthropology. The journal’s articles combine ethnographic specificity with original theoretical thinking, conveying the relevance of the ethnographic imagination to the contemporary world.
Food and Foodways
A refereed, interdisciplinary, and international journal devoted to publishing original scholarly articles on the history and culture of human nourishment.
American Anthropologist
Publishes articles that add to, integrate, synthesize, and interpret anthropological knowledge; commentaries and essays on issues of importance to the discipline; and reviews of books, films, sound recordings and exhibits.
Cultural Anthropology
Publishes ethnographic writing informed by a wide array of theoretical perspectives, innovative in form and content, and focused on both traditional and emerging topics. It also welcomes essays concerned with theoretical issues, with ethnographic methods and research design in historical perspective, and with ways cultural analysis can address broader public audiences and interests.
Human Organization
The journal of the Society for Applied Anthropology and the leading peer reviewed outlet for scholarship in the applied social sciences.