See also the Review Sources Research guide, which points to strategies and places to search for Book Reviews; Film Dance and Theater Reviews; and Research Literature (which points to Annual Reviews and Dissertations as well as particular databases).
Reviews of research are essays which summarize what has been published about a given topic in recent years. The most important source for such reviews in anthropology is the Annual Review of Anthropology. The titles below which begin with the word "companion" often contain useful overviews of research.
