Research Resources:
Subject Research Guides:
Anthropology:
Collection Scope
The anthropology collections include resources related to linguistics,
folklore, ethnology, manners and customs, private and public life, gender, sexuality, political ecology,
transnationalism and globalization, diaspora studies, ethnicity, nationalism and the state, critical development
studies, anthropology of industrial societies, history and violence, kinship and religion. Chronologically the
collection covers prehistory to the present. Due to its global emphases no area studies are excluded, however there is a
special emphasis on African and Asian cultures. We collect in English language extensively. We collect in Spanish,
French and Portuguese and local and indigenous population languages selectively.
The Special Collections and Archives Library contains the William Elliot Griffis Collection that
documents the experience of Westerners in Japan, the roots of Japanese-American relations, and the special friendship
between Japan and Rutgers during the Meiji period (1868-1912). It also contains a collection of African travel
narratives and a strong manuscript collection pertaining to New Jersey and American women and their status, concerns and
activities from the late eighteenth century through the twentieth century.
The Library's membership to the Research Libraries Group/ Center for
Research Libraries Latin American Microform Project (LAMP) and the
Cooperative Africana Microfilm Project (CAMP) resource sharing programs
allows readers access to microforms of retrospective and hard-to-obtain
journals, newspapers, and other research materials, which may be
borrowed for use at RU Libraries through interlibrary loan.
It is to be noted that The Human Relations Area Files in microform
housed at Princeton University Libraries is a joint collection
development effort of RLG Metro.
