Archaeology
Bibliographies
Dictionaries
Encyclopedias
- Pearsall, Deborah M., ed. 2008. Encyclopedia of archaeology. San Diego, Calif. : Elsevier/Academic Press.
- Murray, Timonty. 2007. Milestones in archaeology : a chronological encyclopedia. Santa Barbara, CA : ABC-CLIO.
- Barker, Graeme, ed. 1999. Companion encyclopedia of archaeology. London : Routledge.
- Bintiff, John. 2004. A companion to archaeology. Malden, MA; Oxford: Blackwell.
- Encyclopedia of historical archaeology. 2002. New York : Routledge, 2002.
- Encyclopedia of human evolution and prehistory. 2000. 2nd ed. New York : Taylor & Francis.
- GIS Dictionary. Association for Geographic Information and the University of Edinburgh.
- Johnson, Matthew. 1999. Archaeological theory : an introduction. Oxford : Blackwell Publishers.
- Renfrew, Colin. 2004. Archaeology : theories, methods, and practice. 4th ed. London : Thames & Hudson.
Introductory Texts
- Balme, Jane and Alistair Paterson (eds.). Archaeology in practice: a student guide to archaeological analyses. Malden, MA : Blackwell, 2006.
- Bintiff, John. (ed.). A companion to archaeology. Malden, MA; Oxford: Blackwell, 2004.
- Evans, Thomas L. & Patrick Daly. Digital archaeology: bridging method and theory. London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.
- Gamble, Clive.Archaeology: the basics. London : Routledge, 2001.
- Fagan, Brian M. Ancient lives : an introduction to archaeology and prehistory. 3rd ed. Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Pearson Prentice Hall, 2007.
- Fagan, Brian M. and Christopher R. DeCorse. In the beginning: an introduction to archaeology. 11th ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ : Pearson Prentice Hall, 2005.
- Funari, Pedro Paulo, Andre Zarankin and Emily Stovel (eds.). Global archaeological theory : contextual voices and contemporary thoughts. Boston : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 2005.
- Grant, Jim. The archaeology coursebook : an introduction to study skills, topics and methods. 2nd ed. London; New York: Routledge, 2005.
- Hicks, Dan and Mary C. Beaudry (eds.) The Cambridge companion to historical archaeology. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
- Jones, Andrew. Archaeological theory and scientific practice. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
- Lilley, Ian. Archaeology of Oceania : Australia and the Pacific Islands. Malden, MA : Blackwell, 2006.
- Nelson, Sarah Milledge. Handbook of gender in archaeology. Lanham, MD : AltaMira Press, 2006.
- Maschner, Herbert D.G. and Christopher Chippindale (eds.). Handbook of archaeological methods. Walnut Creek, CA : Altamira Press, 2005.
- Renfrew, Colin and Paul Bahn, (eds.). Archaeology : the key concepts. New York : Routledge, 2005.
- Renfrew, Colin and Paul Bahn.(eds.). Archaeology : theories, methods and practice. 4th ed. London: Thames & Hudson, 2004.
- Wenke, Robert J. Patterns in prehistory : humankind's first three million years. 4th ed. New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.

Biological Anthropology
Dictionaries
- A dictionary of biology. 5th ed. Oxford [England] : Oxford University Press, 2004.
- Keller, Evelyn Fox and Elisabeth A. Lloyd (eds.). Keywords in evolutionary biology. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1992.
- Mai, Larry L., Marcus Young Owl and M. Patricia Kersting. The Cambridge Dictionary of human biology and evolution. New York,NY : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
- Peterson, William. Dictionary of demography: Terms, concepts, and institutions. New York : Greenwood Press, 1986.
- Stevenson, Joan C. Dictionary of concepts in physical anthropology. New York : Greenwood Press, 1991.
Encyclopedias
- Aufderheide, Arthur C. Cambridge Encyclopedia of Human Paleopathology. Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1998.
- Bullough, Vern L. and Bonnie Bullough (eds.). Human sexuality : an encyclopedia. New York : Garland Pub., 1994.
- Encyclopedia of human evolution and prehistory. 2nd ed. New York : Garland ; London : Taylor & Francis, 2000.
- Encyclopedia of genetics
- Encyclopedic dictionary of genetics, genomics and proteomics
- Encyclopedia of Life Sciences
- The Oxford companion to the body. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2001.
- Stanley Ulijaszek, Francis E. Johnston and Michael Preece (eds.). The Cambridge Encyclopedia of human growth and development. Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Introductory Texts
- Boaz, Noel Thomas. Essentials of biological anthropology. Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Prentice Hall, c1999.
- Boyd, Robert and Joan B. Silk. How humans evolved. 4th ed. New York : W.W. Norton, 2006.
- Ciochon, Russell L. John G. Fleagle. The human evolution source book. 2nd ed. Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Pearson Prentice Hall, 2006.
- Buss, David M. Handbook of evolutionary psychology. Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, 2005.
- Crawford, Michael H. (ed.). Anthropological genetics : theory, methods and applications. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
- Harrison, G.A. et al. Human biology : an introduction to human evolution, variation, growth, and adaptability.Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1988.
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Hart, John P. and John Edward Terrell. (eds.) Darwin and archaeology : a handbook of key concepts. Westport, CT : Bergin & Garvey, 2002.
- Health, nutrition, and population indicators : a statistical handbook. Washington, DC : World Bank, c1999.
- Jurmain, Robert. Introduction to physical anthropology. 11th ed. Belmont, Calif. Thomson Wadsworth, c2008.
- Nelson, Harry, Robert Jurmain and Lynn Kilgore. Essentials of physical anthropology. St. Paul, MN : West Pub. Co., c1992.
- Relethford, John H. The human species : an introduction to biological anthropology. 4th ed. Mountain View, Calif. : Mayfield, c2000.
- Stanford, Craig B. John S. Allen and Susan C. Anton. Biological anthropology : the natural history of humankind. Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Pearson Prentice Hall, c2009.
Methodology, Philosophy and History

Social Anthropology
Bibliographies
Dictionaries
- Andermahr, Sonya. A glossary of feminist theory. London ; New York : Arnold, 1997.
- Calhoun, Craig. Dictionary of the social sciences. New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.
- Cashmore, E. Ellis. Dictionary of race and ethnic relations. 4th ed. London ; New York : Routledge, 1996.
- Knapp, Sarah D. The contemporary thesaurus of social science terms and synonyms : a guide for natural language computer searching. Phoenix, Ariz. : Oryx Press, 1993.
- Payne, Michael. A dictionary of cultural and critical theory. Oxford, OX, UK ; Cambridge, Mass., USA : Blackwell Reference, 1996.
- Williams, Raymond. Keywords : a vocabulary of culture and society. London : Fontana Paperbacks, 1983.
- Winthrop, Robert H. Dictionary of concepts in cultural anthropology. New York : Greenwood Press, 1991.
Encyclopedias
- Ember, Carol R. and Melvin Ember (eds.). Encyclopedia of medical anthropology : health and illness in the world’s cultures. New York : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 2004.
- Gall, Timothy L. (ed.) Worldmark encyclopedia of cultures and daily life. Detroit : Gale, 1998.
- Barnard, Alan and Jonathan Spencer (eds.). Encyclopedia of social and cultural anthropology. London : Routledge, 2002. (1998 online edition)
- Kuper, Adam and Jessica Kuper (eds.). The social science encyclopedia. 3rd ed. Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2004.
- Lehman, Jeffrey (ed). Gale encyclopedia of multicultural America. 2nd ed. Farmington Hills, MI : Gale Group, 2000.
- Levinson, David (ed.). Encyclopedia of world cultures. Boston, Mass. : G.K. Hall, 1991.
- Levinson, David and Melvin Ember (eds.) Encyclopedia of cultural anthropology. 4 vols. New York : Henry Holt and Co., 1996.
- Manstead, Antony S.R. and Miles Hewstone. Blackwell encyclopedia of social psychology. Oxford, UK ; Cambridge, Mass., USA : Blackwell, 1999
- Ritzer, George (ed.) Encyclopedia of social theory. Thousand Oaks, CA : Sage Publications, c[2004] 2005.
- Smelser, Neil J. and Paul B. Baltes (eds.). International encyclopedia of the social & behavioral sciences. Oxford : Elsevier Science, 2001.
Introductory Texts
- Bowie, Fiona. The anthropology of religion : an introduction. 2nd ed. Oxford, UK ; Malden, MA : Blackwell, 2006.
- Ember, Carol R.Cultural anthropology. 12th ed. Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Pearson Prentice Hall. 2007.
- Ember, Melvin and Carol R. Ember (eds.) Countries and their cultures. New York : Macmillan Reference USA, 2001.
- Eriksen, Thomas Hylland. What is anthropology? London : Pluto, 2004.
- Howard, Michael C. Contemporary cultural anthropology. 5th ed. New York : HarperCollins College Publishers, c1996.
- Moore, Jerry D. Visions of culture : an introduction to anthropological theories and theorists. 2nd ed. Walnut Creek, Calif. : AltaMira Press, 2001. [1997 online edition]
- Nanda, Serena and Richard L. Warms. Cultural anthropology. 9th ed. Belmont, CA : West/Wadsworth Pub., 2007.
- Peoples, James G. and Garrick Bailey. Humanity : an introduction to cultural anthropology. 6th ed. Belmont, CA : Wadsworth/Thomson Learning. 2003.
- Podolefsky, Aaron and Peter J. Brown (eds.) Applying cultural anthropology : an introductory reader. 6th ed. Boston : McGraw-Hill, c2003.
- Rosman, Abraham. The tapestry of culture : an introduction to cultural anthropology. 4th ed. New York : McGraw-Hill, 1992.
- Turner, Bryan S. The Blackwell companion to social theory. Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Publishers, 2000.
Handbooks and Research Guides
- Atkinson, Paul ... [et al.]. 2001. Handbook of ethnography. London : Sage Publications. American Anthropological Association. AAA guide. (Lists U.S. university departments and staff, other institutes etc and AAA members. AAA Website)
- Bock, Philip K. Handbook of psychological anthropology. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1994.
- Carrier, James.G. (ed.) A handbook of economic anthropology. Cheltenham : Edward Elgar. 2005.
- Glazier , Stephen D. (ed.) Anthropology of religion : a handbook. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1997.
- Denzin, Norman K. and Yvonna S. Lincoln, (eds.) Sage handbook of qualitative research. Thousand Oaks : Sage Publications, 2005.
- Levinson, David. Ethnic groups worldwide : a ready reference handbook. Phoenix, Ariz. : Oryx Press, 1998.
- Lewis-Beck, Michael S., Alan Bryman and Tim Futing Liao. (eds.) The Sage encyclopedia of social science research methods. Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage, 2004.
- McAllister, Ian, Steve Dowrick and Riaz Hassan. The Cambridge handbook of social sciences in Australia. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
- Sargent, Carolyn F. and Thomas M. Johnson (eds.). Handbook of medical anthropology : contemporary theory and method. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1996.
- Trimble, Joseph E. and Celia B. Fisher (eds.). The handbook of ethical research with ethnocultural populations and communities. Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, 2006.
- Weeks, John M. Introduction to library research in anthropology. 2nd ed. Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, c1998.
Methodology, Philosophy and History
- Barnard, Alan. History and theory in anthropology. Cambridge, U.K. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
- Barrett, Stanley R. Anthropology : a student's guide to theory and method. Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, 1996.
- Bernard, H. Russell. Research methods in anthropology : qualitative and quantitative approaches. 4th ed. Published: Lanham, MD : AltaMira Press, 2006
- Brewer, John D. Ethnography. Philadelphia, PA : Open University Press, 2000.
- Darnell, Regna. Invisible genealogies : a history of Americanist anthropology. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, c2001.
- Dresch, Paul, Wendy James and David Parkin. (eds.). Anthropologists in a wider world : essays on field research. Oxford : Berghahn, 2000.
- deMarrais, Kathleen and Stephen D. Lapan. (eds.) Foundations for research : methods of inquiry in education and the social sciences. Mahwah, N.J. : L. Erlbaum Associates, 2004.
- Emerson, Robert M. et al. Writing ethnographic fieldnotes. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1995.
- Erickson, Paul A. and Liam D. Murphy. A history of anthropological theory. [Peterborough, Ont. ; Orchard Park, NY] : Broadview Press, 2003.
- Eriksen, Thomas Hylland and Finn Sivert Nielsen. A history of anthropology. London : Pluto Press, 2001.
- Fowler, Floyd J. Survey research methods. 3rd ed. Published: Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, 2002.
- Gingrich, Andre and Richard G. Fox (eds.) Anthropology by comparison. London ; New York : Routledge, 2002.
- Hastrup, Kirsten. A passage to anthropology : between experience and theory. New York : Routledge, 1996.
- Hobbs, Dick and Richard Wright. The SAGE handbook of fieldwork. London ; Thousand Oaks : SAGE, 2006.
- Jaarsma, Sjoerd R. and Marta A. Rohatynskyj. (eds.) Ethnographic artifacts : challenges to a reflexive anthropology. Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, 2000.
- Kearney, Michael. Changing fields of anthropology : from local to global. Lanham, MD : Rowman & Littlefield, 2004.
- Kiefer, Christie W. Doing health anthropology : research methods for community assessment and change. New York : Springer, 2006.
- Kuper, Adam. Conceptualizing society. London ; New York : Routledge, 1992.
- Layton, Robert. An introduction to theory in anthropology. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1997.
- Lett, James. Science, reason, and anthropology : the principles of rational inquiry. Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c1997.
- McGee, R. Jon and Richard L. Warms. Anthropological theory : an introductory history. 4th ed. Boston : McGraw-Hill, 2008.
- Moore, Henrietta L. and Todd Sanders (eds.) Anthropology in theory : issues in epistemology. Malden, MA : Blackwell, 2006.
- Ortner, Sherry B. Anthropology and social theory : culture, power, and the acting subject. Durham : Duke University Press, 2006.
- Peacock, James L. The anthropological lens : harsh light, soft focus. 2nd. ed. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.
- Smith, Gavin A. Confronting the present : towards a politically engaged anthropology. Oxford ; New York : Berg, 1999.
- Van Maanen, John. Tales of the field : on writing ethnography. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1988.
- Watson, C.W. (ed.) Being there: fieldwork in anthropology. London ; Sterling, Va. : Pluto Press, c1999.
- Walford, Geoffrey. Debates and developments in ethnographic methodology. Amsterdam ; Boston ; London : JAI, 2002.
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Ethnomusicology
Dictionaries
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General Anthropology
Dictionaries
Encyclopedias
Introductory Texts
- William A. Haviland et al., 2010, The essence of anthropology. Boston : McGraw-Hill Higher Education.
- Podolefsky, Aaron, Peter J. Brown, and Scott M. Lacy, eds., 2009, Applying anthropology : An introductory reader. Belmont, Calif. : Wadsworth Cengage Learning.
- Metcalf, Peter. 2005. Anthropology: the basics. Abingdon [England] ; New York : Routledge.

Biography
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