New for Sociology and Anthropology

Oxford University Press / Oxford Reference Online.
Available online.   (W&L subscription)
Second edition (2008) by Timothy Darvill contains 4,000 entries covering "the essential vocabulary for everyday archaeological work in the English language," including principles, theories, techniques, artefacts, materials, people, places, monuments, equipment, and descriptive terms. Focuses on Europe, the Old World, and the Americas.
A link will be maintained on this library Web page.

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Everyday Sociology, W. W. Norton.
Available online.
A sociologist at the University of Southern California writes about the common ground and the differences between these two disciplines.
A link will be maintained on this library Web page.

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Salem Press / Gale Virtual Reference Library.
Available online.   (W&L subscription)
Edited by Carole Barrett and Harvey Markowitz, this three-volume set (2004)contains dozens of signed entries covering "the range of culture from lifeways, religious rituals, and material culture to art forms and modern social phenomena."
Links will be maintained in several locations in our Web site, including here.

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Washington and Lee University researchers now have online access to one of the most prestigious scholarly publication collections through Cambridge Histories Online.

This newly-released database contains the complete texts of over 250 volumes published since the 1960's in the various Cambridge Histories series on major historical topics.
Several series are still active and new volumes will be added to the database as published, as will any new series when they begin.
Here is a list of published volumes, thus far.

W&L students, faculty, and staff have access to this database through our Web site and through Annie (where we plan also to have links to individual titles in the series).

It is also possible to create links to sub-sets of this collection, such as the Native Peoples of the Americas.

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