Reference works

Reference works such as handbooks and encyclopedias are useful for definitions of terms and for brief factual information. The dictionaries and encyclopedias will provide you with:

• definitions of anthropological concepts
• ethnic and cultural groups worldwide
• known anthropologists and their works

This is just a selection. To find other dictionaries and encyclopedias use the library catalogue. At the Search tab type your topic keyword/s and the term 'dictionaries', for example: witchcraft dictionaries.

Anthropology

General works

• Anthropological glossary
• Anthropology in use : a source book on anthropological practice
• Companion encyclopedia of anthropology
• Cultural theory : the key concepts
• Dictionary of anthropology
• Dictionary of concepts in cultural anthropology
• Encyclopedia of cultural anthropology
• Encyclopedia of social and cultural anthropolog
• Macmillan dictionary of anthropology

Anthropologists

• Routledge dictionary of anthropologists

Ethnic groups, peoples, cultures

• Encyclopedia of race and ethnic studies
• Encyclopaedia of South-east Asian ethnography : communities and tribes
• Encyclopedia of the third world
• Encyclopedia of world cultures
• Oxford illustrated encyclopedia of peoples and cultures
• World directory of minorities

Social sciences, General works

• Blackwell dictionary of modern thought
• International encyclopedia of the social and behavioural sciences is a current and authoritative encyclopedia with extensive further readings.
• Norton dictionary of modern thought

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