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Anthropology : Dictionaries & Encyclopedias

Below are a selection of Library-owned dictionaries and encyclopedias in anthropology. All titles with "Ref" before the call number are in the Reference Room. Titles without a prefix to the call number are in the Main Stacks in the basement.

  • Atlas of World Cultures
    Ref GN 345.3 M86 1981

  • Companion Encyclopedia of Anthropology: Humanity, Culture and Social Life
    Ref GN 25 .C65 1994

  • Dictionary of Concepts in Cultural Anthropology
    Ref GN 307 .W56 1991

  • Encyclopedia of Cultural Anthropology (4 volumes)
    Ref GN 307 .E52 1996

  • Encyclopedia of Social and Cultural Anthropology
     Ref GN 307 .E527 1997

  • Encyclopedia of World Cultures (10 volumes)
    Ref GN 307 .E53 1991

  • Encyclopedias of the Human Experience (9 volumes published to date, 1994-)
    Ref GN 345.7 .E729

  • History of Physical Anthropology (2 volumes)
    Ref GN 50.3 S64 1997

  • Illustrated Encyclopedia of Mankind (22 volumes)
    Ref GN307 .I44 1990

  • Worldmark Encyclopedia of Cultures and Daily Life (4 volumes)
    GN333 .W67 1998