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  • Contains articles and essays on social and cultural anthropology, Old and New World archaeology, physical anthropology and anthropological aspects of related subjects emphasizing Mesoamerican, Native American and Andean archaeology and ethnology.

  • Offers access to more than 570,000 citations that cover articles published from the early 19th century to the present in more than 50 languages.

  • Produced by Harvard University's Tozzer Library.

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Terminology

Anthropological Literature uses the subject terminology from the Library of Congress, with the addition of some specialist terms created by Harvard:
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Finding Results

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