Library Guide for WRI 179/180:

Cultural Politics of the Body

Spring 2008
Noelle Mole, Instructor

Librarians: Linda Oppenheim (lindao@princeton.edu, 258-4043) and Mary George (mwgeorge@princeton.edu, 258-3254)

1. Background sources

Encyclopedia of cultural anthropology, edited by David Levinson and Melvin Ember. New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1996. 4 vols.

[Firestone Library, Trustees Reading Room GN307 .E52 1996]

This work contains 340 articles covering nine general areas in the field of cultural anthropology.

Gale encyclopedia of medicine, edited by Jacqueline L. Longe. 3rd ed. Detroit, MI : Gale Group, 2006. 5 vols.

[Firestone Library, Trustees Ready Room RC41 .G35 2006]

The 1700 articles give a thorough description of diseases, disorders, tests, treatments and many common drugs in lay terms. The online edition can be searched as part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library.

2. Finding Books on Your Topic

Suggested subject headings

	Body art
        Body human--symbolic aspects
        Body image in women
        Cultural psychology
	Diseases--social aspects
	Ethnopsychology
        Healers--Ghana
        Healing
        Health--cross-cultural studies
	Health and race
        Indians of Mexico--health and hygiene 
	Indians of Mexico--medicine
	Medical anthropology
	Mental illness--social aspects
        Psychiatry, transcultural
	Rites and ceremonies
	Shamanism
        Tattooing
	Traditional medicine
	Women healers

3. Finding scholarly journal literature

You can link to the electronic indexes and databases listed below to identify journal, magazine, and newspaper articles by going to the Library's home page section Articles and Databases. For a tutorial on basic database searching, using Proquest as an example, click on the link.

ProQuest Direct - Periodical Research Library

Indexes journals and some newspapers. Provides the complete article in many cases.

Ebsco Academic Search Premier

Another general journal index with many complete articles.

Omnifile [Wilson indexes]

Broad general index that is actually a combination of Readers' Guide, Humanities Index, General Science and others. Some full text is available.

Global Health Database

International public health database abstracting literature about healthcare, biomedical life sciences, diseases, nutrition, etc. Covers English and foreign language journals, books, reports, patents, dissertations and conference proceedings.

Medline

Database produced by the National Library of Medicine that indexes and abstracts the international biomedical journal literature.

Annual Review of Anthropology

Yearly synthesis and critical evaluation of the primary research literature in the field, beginning in 1972. Print volumes for each year can be found in the Firestone Library Trustees Reading Room under the call number GN1.A5115

Anthropology Plus

"Worldwide indexing of journal articles, reports, commentaries, edited works, and obituaries in the fields of social, cultural, physical, biological, and linguistic anthropology, ethnology, archaeology, folklore, material culture, and interdisciplinary studies. Anthropology Plus combines Anthropological Literature from Harvard University and the Anthropological Index, Royal Anthropological Institute from the UK." Indexes over 5,000 sources.

AnthroSource

"Full text access to peer reviewed journals, newsletters and bulletins through a collaboration between the American Anthropological Association and the University of California Press." An electronic archive of all the AAA's journals.

Abstracts in Anthropology

"Comprehensive coverage of significant, current scholarship in cultural anthropology, physical anthropology, archaeology, & linguistics." The database begins in 2001. The print volumes began in 1970 and are shelved in the Trustees Reading Room, call number: GN1.A35.

ipoll databank (Roper)

"Comprehensive, up-to-date source for national public opinion. The database is a full-text retrieval system updated daily and organized at the question-level, providing tools to sift through nearly a half million questions asked on national public opinion surveys since 1935. Registration is required but is free."

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4. Style and Citation Manuals

(Courtesy of Nancy Pressman Levy)