Northern Kentucky University

Anthropology Books & Media

These are suggestions only and do not reflect the full range of materials that may be useful to you. For additional assistance, Ask Steely Library!

For locating specific items, using the library's catalog, NKUIRE, is recommended. Keyword, Author, Title, and Subject are among the ways you can search.

For Non-Print Media (videos, DVDs, CDs, slides, etc.), consider the ‘Media Searches’ tab atop the NKUIRE search page.

WorldCat is the world's most comprehensive bibliography, with more than 49 million bibliographic records representing 400 languages. Covers information from 2100 B.C.E. to the present. Includes holdings information from libraries across the world. Now includes the Library of Congress Subject Headings as its thesaurus. If Steely Library does not own a title, it may be requested through SourceFinder.

Browsing for books in Steely's Reference and Circulating collections can be very useful. For Anthropology, the following call number areas are suggested:

• CC1-960 - Archaeology
• GF1-900 - Human ecology; Anthropogeography
• GN1-890 - Anthropology
• GN49-298 - Physical Anthropology; Somatology
• GN51-59 - Anthropometry
• GN62.8-265 - Human variation
• GN269-279 - Race (general)
• GN280.7 - Man as an animal. Simian traits versus human traits
• GN281-289 - Human evolution
• GN296-296.5 - Medical anthropology
• GN301-674 - Ethnology; Social and Cultural Anthropology
• GN378-396 - Collected ethnographies
• GN397-397.7 - Applied anthropology
• GN406-517 - Cultural traits, customs and institutions
• GN537-674 - Ethnic groups and races
• GN700-890 - Prehistoric anthropology

New Anthropology Titles in the Library Catalog, NKUIRE