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DaVinci's "The Vitruvian Man (c.1485)"

Anthropology (Oxford English Dictionary):

1. The science of man, or of mankind, in the widest sense.

This seems to have been the original application of the word in Eng. but for two and a half cent., to c 1860, the term was commonly confined to the restricted sense b. Since that date, it has sometimes been limited, by reaction, to c.

b. The science of the nature of man, embracing Human Physiology and Psychology and their mutual bearing.

The sense in which was used by Aristotle, and Anthropologia by Otto Casmann 1594-5 in his Psychologia Anthropologica, sive Animæ Humanæ Doctrina; and Anthropologia: Pars II. hoc est de fabrica Humani Corporis. This author seems to have first used the term.

c. The ‘study of man as an animal’ (Latham). The branch of the science which investigates the position of man zoologically, his ‘evolution,’ and history as a race of animated beings.

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Albertsons Library provides access to over 230 research databases and indexes via its "Articles, Databases" link on the library's homepage: http://library.boisestate.edu

We have created several subject-specific lists of databases germane to your topic. For Anthropology, the following databases cover the spectrum of anthropological research and scholarship:

Abstracts in Anthropology

• Cultural Anthropology
• Physical Anthropology
• Archaeology
• Linguistics
  

Anthropological Index Online

• Index to current periodicals in the Anthropology Library at the British Museum.

AnthroSource

• Full text articles available via JSTOR
  
• List of titles covered can be found at http://www.anthrosource.net/page/holdings

eHRAF Archaeology

• Full text articles available
  
• Cross-cultural database containing information on the world's prehistory

eHRAF World Cultures (collection of ethnography)

• Full text articles available
• Cross-cultural database that contains information on all aspects of cultural and social life
  

Interdisciplinary databases that may cover anthropological research:

Academic search premier

• Full text articles available
• Cross-discipline scholarly database

BioOne

• Biosciences database covering biology, ecology, and environmental sciences
• Research includes evolution, anthropology, natural history, palaeontology, zoology, etc.

JSTOR: The Scholarly Journal Archive

• Full text articles available.
• Cross-discipline scholarly database
  

ProQuest Dissertations

• Comprehensive collection of multidisciplinary dissertations and theses
  

SAGE Premier

• Full-text articles available
• Cross-disciplinary scholarly database

ScienceDirect

• Full text articles available
• Over 2000 science, technology and medical journals

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