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Use the drop down lists to select the publication year(s) to be searched or check a box to search for an entire decade or all years. If you do not know which year you must tick the checkbox to search for all possible years. Note that if nothing is specified it will automatically search files from the last few years.
Although the Index includes data from the late 1950s there are very few records until the 1960s.
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Terms entered here will search for author names. The default is to look for whole names. Note that diacritics are not used at present (we are waiting for the state of the WWW to improve). Also note that publications by "institutional authors" have the institution name treated as author. We shall eventually enable a function allowing the easy searching of initials and surnames. We shall also enable the inspection of a list of all author names contained in the index.
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Any Field will find the search term(s) entered wherever they occur in the record. Title and Journal will search those areas only.
More than one word implies an 'and': so 'flint tools' find articles where the words 'flint' and 'tools' both occur, but not just as the phrase 'flint tools'. Terms entered in different fields 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.
| How to combine terms | ||
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| AND | flint tools | |
| AND | and | flint and tools |
| AND | & | flint & tools |
| OR | or | witchcraft or magic |
| OR | , | witchcraft, magic |
| OR | | | witchcraft | magic |
Only one operator may be used in a single field at the moment, so it is not possible to do "x and y or z". Brackets cannot be used to construct complex search terms.
All of the text search terms can be restricted to search for whole words, for words beginning or ending with the search term or to look anywhere in a word. Clicking on the box to the right of the input box for each term will reveal a list of the options. Note that if you choose 'anywhere', 'beginning' or 'end' then truncation is automatic - no '*' is necessary.
Journal. The raw data contains both full and contracted titles and both are searched if a term is entered in the 'Journal' field. A check box at the bottom allows you to select the display of short title only.
A list of all journal titles is available .
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Users can use the lists of Journal titles and different sorts of keywords to add the search terms to their searches. In order to facilitate an article search, the Anthropological Index Online has a keywords list that can be used for refined searches. This allows the retrieval of articles even if the words are not contained in the title.
The Keywords list is largely based on the Thesaurus of the Anthropology Library at the British Museum and the Library of Congress reference handbooks.
A preliminary look at the keywords can be useful to identify areas and preferred terms used in the indexing of AIO articles. The list includes the world's most important ethnic groups, and archaeological sites, geographical areas, as well as names of the scholars whose work has been indexed in AIO.
Most ethnic groups are listed under the most common terms used in the
anthropological literature. e.g. the Northwest Coast ethnic group Kwakwaka'wakw,
goes under the name of Kwakiutl, the Kenyan group Abagusii can be found under
Gusii, and the Siberian ethnic group Vogul will be found under the voice Mansi,
etc. Please note that AIO ethnic names choice is purely functional to keep
accuracy and consistency standards. We would not be able to maintain consistency should we follow the current rate at which ethnic groups change their names. Ethnic groups themselves often present different spellings for their name. AIO does not take a political stance in relation to this choice.
Please note that places which have changed geographical boundaries, such as Yugoslavia, have been listed as 'Former Yugoslavia', 'Former Soviet Union', etc. Specific geographical location and appropriate names are given wherever
possible. However, newer identities are not added retrospectively to earlier records.
Descriptive keywords are also included in the lists. These keywords are aimed to cover areas of research that would be inappropriate or too narrow for single terms headings. This allows a broad enough search without confusing it with synonyms or unnecessary repetitions. A common term like 'Heritage' for example has been substituted by 'Cultural resource management'. This is because the latter is more descriptive the the former.
Such keywords also cover the theoretical aspects of research. For example,
specific theories and/or methodologies go under 'Theory of...anthropology,
archaeology' etc. The same applies to an author's specific works. Marcel Mauss's
theory can be found for instance either under 'Work of Marcel Mauss', 'Theory of
anthropology' or 'History of anthropology' (all descriptive keywords). More
recent works are going to be found under the author's name with the forename always before the surname e.g 'Work of Clifford Geertz', the name on its own usually stands for an obituary.
Anthropological Index 0nline does not normally cover the archaeology of the northern hemisphere (Europe, the Balkans and Russia) after the Medieval period. An exception is when more recent period archaeological surveys carried out in such countries are relevant for either theoretical or methodological reasons.
Lists of keywords are available. They are divided by Countries, Ethnic Groups, Places and General Keywords.
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Three pop-up lists allow searchers to select from the same headings
that were used in the original printed index. This achieves consistency
with the back data, and gives some simple keyword-like filtering.
The term "Other" has been used under Subject in the following ways:
- To mean more than one of the AIO subjects, (e.g. linguistics and archaeology, as in the case of inscriptions)
- For articles of a theoretical nature or concerning subjects
only partially covered by AIO e.g. demography, human ecology, statistics etc.
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Languages are searchable but only where the data exists - in some of the older data the identity of some common languages was taken to be obvious so has not been entered. English is the unmarked default. Note that at present it is not possible to do "NOT" searching (so, for example, you cannot opt to exclude non- English sources). We are aware of the need to do this and are considering means to enable it. Languages used include the following: Albanian, Armenian, Belorussian, Bulgarian, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, Flemish, French, Gaelic, Georgian, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Serbo-Croat, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tadzhik, Turkish, Ukrainian. Close This Window and return to your search of Anthropological Index Online version
