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Anthropology : Biographical resources The following are major sources for biographical information on anthropologists and other significant persons influential in social anthropology. Additional sources will be found via the Anthropology dictionaries & encyclopedias guide. Anthropology Biography Web [web access]
[Brief, encyclopedic entries on the lives of significant anthropologists or prominent thinkers in other fields who have influenced the discipline] Biographical directory of anthropologists born before 1920 [print]
[Brief biographical information together with sources for additional information] Brightsparcs [web access]
[A searchable database of brief biographical information & archival sources on people in Australian science - includes many social anthropologists] Dead Sociologists Index [web access]
[Provides brief biographies of sociologists such as included Durkheim, Marx & Weber] Encyclopedia of social & cultural anthropology [print & electronic]
[Includes a biographical appendix] International dictionary of anthropologists [print]
[Entries consist of a biographical essay together with lists of major works & sources of additional information] International encyclopedia of the social and behavioral sciences [print & electronic]
[Includes substantial biographical information] Intute - Anthropologists: life and works [web access] Women anthropologists [print]
[Comprises a biography, a bibliography of selected works & a listing of critical studies]
To find other material in the library, try this catalogue search A subject heading search can be used to locate material on individuals, eg. Durkheim (a keyword search such as emile and durkheim will be more comprehensive, but will also produce a lot of irrelevant references). Last update: 17 December 2009 Helen Attar
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