Anthropological Index Online


	Anthropological Index Online The Anthropological Index to Current Periodicals in the The Anthropology Library at the British Museum (incorporating the former Royal Anthropological Institute library)

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We will be retiring these old search pages from 1st December 2009. Please use the new site and update your bookmarks. Emailing of results is no longer available from this site - only from the new one.

The new site has improved search forms, diacritics and record marking. If you have problems with character display, set your browser to view UTF-8 or switch to ascii display in the results. Journal and keywords lists automatically enter the selected title or word in the form, but you will need to enable Javascript for this to work. Feedback is welcome.

Year published
1950s	1960s	1970s	1980s	1990s	2000s	All years	Recent data (last updated 29-05-09 ) Note this contains material published over the last few years
2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008
1999	1998	1997	1996	1995	1994	1993	1992	1991	1990
1989	1988	1987	1986	1985	1984	1983	1982	1981	1980
1979	1978	1977	1976	1975	1974	1973	1972	1971	1970
1969	1968	1967	1966	1965	1964	1963	1962	1961	1960
1959	1958	1957

NB There is only a limited amount of data available from the late 1950s.

Any Field Help on keywords is also available	Match
Author	Match
Title	Match
Journal List of journal titles	Match
Language

Subject Heading - Use the pop-up lists below N.B. See help for how "Other" is used

Continent	Region	Subject Area (if in doubt leave blank)

Formatted - 'Refer' format (for database import) - Short Titles Show Keywords with search results

The data is (c) RAI and use is permitted for educational non-commercial purposes (including private study). Institutions that make heavy use are expected to contribute towards the costs of data entry. See our statement of terms and conditions of access . Commercial institutions wishing to use Anthropological Index Online are asked to contact the RAI to arrange access. Read the full copyright statement

Retrospective conversion: As from 5 March 2001 the searchable data includes a further 140,000 references from the original paper edition of AI. The earliest reference is from 1957. The retrospective conversion has been enabled by grants to the Royal Anthropological Institute from the Getty Foundation, ESRC (UK), the Mellon Trust, the Pilgrim Trust and the Marsh Christian Trust.

Instructions

Fill in the form above, then click on the "Search the AI" button.

Combinations will automatically be combined - So "zeitlyn" in Author and "soothsayer" in title will find a work by one of the anthropologists called Zeitlyn with the word soothsayer in the title. Note that searches are NOT case-sensitive

If you select the default option to "match anywhere" then truncation is automatic in the sense that it searches for what you put in - no "*" is necessary, and strings will be found wherever they occur. The pop-up list allows you to restrict searching to find either whole words only or strings at the beginnings or ends of words.

The back data contains intials only so authors should be searched for either by plain surname, or by putting initials before the surname i.e. searching for "d zeitlyn" finds works by David Zeitlyn. Note also that the early data has not been fully keyworded. New data will include first names where they are available. Note that the default setting for Authors is "Whole Word".

Browsable lists of journal titles and author names will follow.

Guidance on boolean searching is also available.

Photocopies are available of most indexed articles for research or private study from
The Anthropology Library at the British Museum, Centre for Anthropology,
The British Museum, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG, United Kingdom

Copies can also be ordered from the British Library Lexicon service - note this is not administered by the RAI.

Note: Museum of Mankind is the Department of Ethnography of The British Museum

Send us your comments,suggestions and notifications of any errors in the data on the Anthroplogical Index Online or send email to CSAC

Fellows and Junior Fellows of the RAI can consult references from AIO at the Anthropology Library, The British Museum (and borrow books). How to Join the RAI
Go to the RAI homepage - Go to the CSAC homepage
David Zeitlyn 28 March 1996 revised 14 April 2005

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The Anthropological Index Online has been made available with the financial support of the William Buller Fagg Charitable Trust and the practical support of CSAC at UKC.

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