Dept. of tools, kerleone, April 25, 2003 at 12:24:53 PM CEST

800 Dissertations from Hamburg University Online

The University of Hamburg has a exemplary online database of meanwhile 800 dissertations online (most of them in german). You can browse them by department or search for keywords. And yes, you can read them completely online. I just stumbled over a thesis about the universality of the human rights, but there are also works about for example african families in exile or tourism and socio-cultural change in Madagaskar. Sadly, there are not many doctoral theses from anthropology.

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Dept. of tools, zephyrin, April 6, 2003 at 10:50:04 PM CEST

African Studies Abstracts Online

African Studies Abstracts Online is the new electronic journal of the African Studies Centre in Leiden. Like its printed predecessor (African Studies Abstracts), African Studies Abstracts Online provides an overview of articles from periodicals and edited works on Africa in the field of the social sciences and the humanities available in the library of the African Studies Centre in Leiden. Each issue contains up to 450 titles with abstracts of collective volumes, journal articles and chapters from edited works, arranged geographically. Each issue also contains a geographical index, a subject index, an author index, and a list of journals and edited works abstracted in that issue. Almost 240 journals are scanned on a regular and systematic basis. This includes all the leading journals in the field of African studies, as well as a number of journals dealing with third world countries and development studies in general. Just under the half are published in Africa. A selection of edited works is also accessed and abstracted on a chapter-by-chapter basis. All publications covered are available at the African Studies Centre library in Leiden.

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Dept. of tools, zephyrin, April 3, 2003 at 1:51:22 PM CEST

Anthropological Literature online index

Anthropological Literature is a bibliographic index to articles in journals and edited works received by Tozzer Library with more than 600,000 entries from the 19th century to the present. More than thirteen hundred edited works have been indexed since 1984. The index is updated quarterly. Coverage is international in scope. Major topics include cultural/social anthropology, Old and New World archaeology, biological/physical anthropology, linguistics, history, sociology, folklore, human geography and geology.

Kerleone adds: But it seems that you have to pay for accessing the database in case you're not a lucky member of harvard university. But: Students from Munich University can access it via the e-Media Portal from Bayrische Staatsbibliothek. You only need to enter your library number and PIN.

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Dept. of tools, fabulous, April 2, 2003 at 3:38:13 PM CEST

HADDON

Web site for HADDON, the online catalogue of archival ethnographic films and film footage shot during the first half-century of cinema.

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Dept. of tools, kerleone, April 2, 2003 at 9:43:12 AM CEST

Search for Similar Books

At the library of congress, the largest library in the world I discovered a interesting feature (which a lot may already know): If you search for a book using the "basic search feature, you can click on the "call number" of the book ("Signatur" in german). Now you can browse up and down through the books with a call number near the searched book and you will find mostly books with a very similar topic (but not always). A great help, even if you have to order the books at your local library afterwards.

The call numbers are sorted by an hierachical classifacation system, which is best explained at this external site. Also you may want to read more about the composition of a call number.

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Dept. of tools, kerleone, March 31, 2003 at 2:18:20 PM CEST

Mundus - Gateway to Missionary Collections in the UK

"The Mundus Gateway makes it easier for researchers from a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds to locate collections of missionary materials held within the UK that are relevant to their research. The Mundus database contains descriptions of more than 400 collections accumulated in Britain by individuals and societies engaged in the overseas missionary movement between the 18th and 20th centuries."

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Dept. of tools, kerleone, March 11, 2003 at 8:41:28 PM CET

Encyclopedia from the 18th century online

In the center of digitalization of the national library of bavaria you can search online all entries of the german Zeldler encyclopedia from the 18th century, called "Grosses vollständiges Universal-Lexicon aller Wissenschaften und Künste". It's a useful tool, because I already found entries there especially from persons of this time, which you can't find in actual encyclopedias.

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Dept. of tools, kerleone, February 5, 2003 at 11:13:53 AM CET

Daily Updated Title Pages of International Newspapers

At Today's Front Pages you can view the front pages of 179 newspapers from 26 countries for free. They are daily updated! But there could be more newspapers from non western nations. Via Das Kollektiv

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Dept. of tools, kerleone, January 29, 2003 at 1:25:13 PM CET

Slave Movement During the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

Ok, it's unlikely that someone needs this, but you never know: "This site provides access to the raw data and documentation which contains information on the following slave trade topics from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: records of slave ship movement between Africa and the Americas, slave ships of eighteenth century France, slave trade to Rio de Janeiro, Virginia slave trade in the eighteenth century, English slave trade (House of Lords Survey), Angola slave trade in the eighteenth century, internal slave trade to Rio de Janeiro, slave trade to Havana, Cuba, Nantes slave trade in the eighteenth century, and slave trade to Jamaica." Via Malorama

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Dept. of tools, zephyrin, January 27, 2003 at 10:53:17 AM CET

Photos out of Africa

More than one thousand photos out of Africa : Mali, Burkina Faso, Egypt & many more. Click on the link and visit the gallery. All photos are available for private, editorial and commercial use.

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Dept. of tools, kerlone, January 22, 2003 at 10:42:32 AM CET

Online Papers on Consciousness

Online papers on consciousness, a collection of over 1000 papers on consciousness and related topics. Via Social Science Weblog

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Dept. of tools, kerlone, January 7, 2003 at 9:34:31 PM CET

Gigantic Picture Collection

The library of congress has a collection of 7 Million pictures (it's not a typo !!!) online, which you can browse through. A lot of pictures are also available in high resolution files. Besides a high probability of finding anthropolic interesting pictures by keyword search, there are also some interesting collections, like the 400 pictures ABDUL HAMID II COLLECTION, the 850 picture CURTIS (EDWARD S.) COLLECTION with photos from american indians and some others like a transportation collection of Asia and another collection with pictures from native americans. Really amazing! Via this First Monday Article

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