Anthropology Research

• Annual Reviews  (Harvard Key required) 

Searches review articles, including the Annual Review of Anthropology.

• Oxford Bibliographies (Harvard Key required) 

Articles that are written and reviewed by scholars, which provide an overview of a topic and an annotated bibliography.​

• Very Short Introductions Online  (Harvard Key required) 

Concise introductions to a diverse range of subjects. 

• Anthropology Plus (Harvard Key required) 

A good source for finding book reviews, both historical and current. 

• Google Books (some content free / open access) 

A useful tool for searching within books and seeing book previews. 

• HOLLIS (some content  free / open access) 

Contains information about the many different types of items held in the Harvard Library.

• Academic Search Premier (Harvard Key required) 

A general-purpose database covering scholarly journals as well as more mainstream publications.

• Anthropology Plus (Harvard Key required) 

Searches the major literature, including journals, in anthropology and related fields. 

• AnthroSource (Harvard Key required) 

Searches journals published by the American Anthropological Association.

• Google Scholar (some content free / open access) 

Searches many different types of publications across a variety of disciplines. Learn how to connect Google Scholar to your library access. 

• JSTOR (Harvard Key required) 

Searches many different types of publications across a variety of disciplines.  

• View More: Harvard Library Databases Search Page

See all of the Harvard Library's databases. 

• Anthropological Fieldwork Online (Harvard Key required) 

Contains primary sources related to landmark ethnographies written by anthropologists like Bronislaw Malinowski and Ruth Benedict. 

• Anthropology Online (Harvard Key required) 

Brings together a wide range of written ethnographies, field notes, seminal texts, memoirs, and contemporary studies.

• Ethnographic Video Online (Harvard Key required) 

A large video streaming library of ethnographic films and documentaries. 

• Google Books (some content free / open access) 

A useful tool for searching within books. Once you find a book that you are interested in, check HOLLIS to see if Harvard owns it. When searching, include the terms ethnography or ethnographic. 

• HOLLIS (some content free / open access) 

Contains information about the many different types of items held in the Harvard Library. When searching, include the terms ethnography or ethnographic. ​

• HRAF World Cultures (Harvard Key required) 

Contains a variety of primary source materials on over 400 cultures. 

• ARTstor (some content free / open access) 

Contains images from museums, libraries, and archives from all over the world. 

• Ethnographic Video Online (Harvard Key required) 

A large video streaming library of ethnographic films and documentaries. ​

• Google Arts & Culture (free / open access) 

Contains images from over 130 museums from around the world.

• HOLLIS  Images (some content free / open access) 

Includes content from archives, museums, libraries, and other collections throughout Harvard University.

• DASH (free / open access) 

Harvard's central, open-access repository for research by Harvard community members. Contains Harvard anthropology dissertations from 2012-present and some undergraduate theses.

• HOLLIS (some content free / open access) 

Find dissertations and theses written by scholars from Harvard. 

• ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (Harvard Key required) 

Find dissertations and theses written by scholars from North American universities. Most post-1990 titles are available with full-text.