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Anthropological Fieldwork Online This link opens in a new window
Anthropological Fieldwork Online brings the fieldwork underpinning the great ethnographies of the early 20th century into the digital world. This fully indexed, primary source database unfolds the historical development of anthropology from a global perspective, bringing together the work of early scholars who shaped the theories and methods students learn about, critique and re-shape today.
AM Explorer This link opens in a new window
AM Explorer is a cross-collection search of the entire corpus of Adam Matthew's digitized arts and cultural heritage material in subjects including Area Studies, Cultural Studies, Empire and Globalism, Ethnic Studies, Gender and Sexuality, History, Politics, Literature, Theatre, and War and Conflict.
African American Communities (AM Explorer)
Focusing predominantly on Atlanta, Chicago, New York, and towns and cities in North Carolina this resource presents multiple aspects of the African American community through pamphlets, newspapers and periodicals, correspondence, official records, reports and in-depth oral histories, revealing the prevalent challenges of racism, discrimination and integration, and a unique African American culture and identity.
Ethnographic Sound Archives Online This link opens in a new window
Ethnographic Sound Archives Online brings together over 2,000 hours of previously unpublished historic field recordings from around the world, alongside their supporting field notes and ethnographers' metadata, opening new paths for the study of music in its cultural context.
Church Missionary Society Archive This link opens in a new window
Repository of source materials on the work of this globally influential group, founded in 1799 as an Anglican evangelical movement and still active today. Includes records of both the CMS and the many other missionary societies which have become associated or amalgamated with it over its lifetime.
The Cornell University Witchcraft Collection
Part of Cornell University Library’s Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell’s Witchcraft Collection contains over 3,000 titles documenting the history of the Inquisition and the persecution of witchcraft, primarily in Europe.
Hunter-gatherer Religion Database (HGRD)
The Hunter-gatherer Religion Database (HGRD) documents the early religious systems of 84 hunter-gatherer societies from around the world. This database is built from historic ethnographic source materials and contains quantitative variables on a range of supernatural beliefs and practices, as well as qualitative notes and references. Wherever possible, the focus is on how societies were before conversion to major world religions and prior to substantial shifts towards sedentary means of subsistence.
Early English Books Online (EEBO) This link opens in a new window
Contains page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473–1700