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Anthropology Online: Articles

Guide to assist with fully-online instruction and research, created during the COVID 19 pandemic

Important Information for Searching in ALL article databases

Once you find citations to some interesting articles, click  find the article online.  This will also take you to more information about finding articles in the few journals that we don't have online. 

Please note that many more article databases (which all point to a significant amount of online material, can be found on the UCSD research guides for specific fields of Anthropology.

Anthropology Articles

A few databases focus specifically on the discipline called Anthropology. But the interests of scholars in this field go into so many different areas you should also look at the rest of this page. Further down are databases that cover many disciplines at one time. The column on the right includes databases for other subject disciplines that also interest anthropology researchers. Let us know if we've left anything out.

NOTE: Besides journal articles, many of these databases also include other research materials such as dissertations and conference proceedings.

Off-campus?  Be sure to set up your browser for remote access!  

The place to start if you're looking for articles in anthropology or archaeology.

Fulltext of journals published by the American Anthropological Association.

Fulltext of journals published by the American Anthropological Association.

Multi-Disciplinary Databases

Multidisciplinary databases which include lots of anthropology content.

More General Subject Databases Useful for Anthropology Research

See also databases by Subjects A-Z  or by title Databases A-Z

Databases for Particular Regions or Groups