Anthropology

Collection overview

Collection strengths include the social, cultural and behavioural aspects of anthropology.

Geographical focus is on worldwide, although not comprehensive, coverage of anthropology.

Collection location

• Most books are located on the 7th floor.
• All anthropology items available on open access will either display the location:
  • SOCIOLOGY - as they are co-located with the Sociology Collection - with the classmark prefix 3 eg SOCIOLOGY 7th Floor (3) KCU Cri, or the location
  • HEALTH with the prefix 3 eg HEALTH 7th Floor (3) HB Bue
• Large books are shelved in a separate sequence - indicated by the prefix ‘f’ or ‘folio’, before the location code
• Recent issues of periodicals are on display bays in the Periodicals Room, 4th Floor. For more information on finding journals, see our journals resources page
• Some items are held in the closed access stacks. These will display the location Stack Service. Please request at the Stack Service desk on the 4th floor South Block.
• To locate individual titles use the online catalogue

Related collections

• Area collections of Latin American Studies and United States Studies
• Geography collection
• Health Studies collection - abortion, physical anthropology
• History collection – social history
• Politics collection – European Union
• Special Collections: especially the Harry Price Library of Magical Literature
• Many major dictionaries, encyclopedias and reference works in the Information Centre, 4th floor, as well as in the Sociology collection on the 6th floor

Classmarks for Anthropology

All classmarks in this collection have a numerical prefix of 3 eg SOCIOLOGY 7th Floor (3) KCU Cri

Note – anthropology of the American Peoples will be found in the United States and Latin American collections.

African ethnology: KO

Cultural studies: KEW

Death customs: KGM

Ethnicity: KED

Ethnology: KO-KS

Family: KCW

Fieldwork - geographic: KEBG

Folklore -  European: KL

History of anthropology: KE3

Human evolution: HBC

Hunter gatherers: KGG

Internet and Society: KDTI

Magic: KII

Material culture: KER

Methodology: K4

Physical anthropology: HB

Polynesian peoples: KPP

Postmodernism: KEWP

Sexuality: KCU

Shamanism: KIIS

Subcultures: KCGN

Visual anthropology: KEBV

Witchcraft: KIE

For a more detailed explanation of classmarks see the Library's leaflet 'A guide to the classification scheme'.

Other libraries

For more information about Anthropology holdings in other academic libraries in the London area, please consult the M25 Consortium of Higher Education Libraries website: www.m25lib.ac.uk. Of particular interest to Anthropology researchers is the library of the Centre for Anthropology (CfA) Library, British Museum, the catalogue is one of the British Museum catalogues. For elsewhere in the UK, consult the Consortium of University and Research Libraries catalogue: www.copac.ac.uk