Selected Library Sources for AMM 108:
Culture, People, and Dress

1. Online Sources
 
 
     
Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History
 
         
     
Britannica Online
 
     
Encyclopedia of Modern Asia Screenshot of the Gale Interface
  • Via Gale (preferred over Netlibrary) Search for the words: clothing [name of country] Note: when searching a Gale product: "Gale databases require that a cookie be set before full-text access is allowed. The first attempt to retrieve an article will be unsuccessful, but it will set up the cookie. Back up and a second click will succeed."
  • Via Netlibrary
  • About Remote Access
  • Also available in paper version: Reference/2nd floor DS4 .E53 2002 
 
         
     
Royal Geographical Society Picture Library
 
         
     
Internet Website for Textiles (Gutman Library, Philadelphia University)
 
         
     
Wikipedia
  • Article on National Costume (has links to articles on national items of dress)
 
         
     
Websites by Subject: Costume
  • Links to free websites
 
         
  2. Databases  
   
A. Links: Databases | Finding Journal Articles | Using Find IT! | About Remote Access
B. Databases:
  Wilsonweb (try Art Abstracts, Art Index Retrospective, Humanities Fulltext, Social Science Fulltext, or Humanities and Social Science retro Fulltext), Academic Search Elite, Project Muse, JSTOR, Sociological Abstracts, eHRAF, Ethnic Newswatch, Countrywatch, Worldcat.
 
         
         
  3. Library Catalog
Most of the items in the Library Catalog are to be found in the Library Building.
 
     
A. Links: Library Catalog | Help Finding Books
B. Subject Searches:
  Clothing and Dress, costume, costume and adornment, Ethnology, Textile fabrics, textile fabrics and industry, material culture, Jewelry, body-marking, fashion, handweaving, embroidery, weaving, name of country, name of group of people.
C. Title Searches: Images of Asia, Daily Life in...
D.  Get Materials not at this library - don't forget we can get items from other libraries for you.
 
         
  4. Books on the Second and Sixth Floors and of the Library
 
 
  Book Cover   The Clothing of the Renaissance World: Europe, Asia, Africa, The Americas
Reference/2nd floor GT509 V42 2008
 
      Encyclopedia of American Indian Costume
Reference/2nd floor E98.C8 P37 1994
 
         
      Illustrated Encyclopedia of Mankind
Books/6th Floor GN307 .I44 
See Volume 20 for Index
 
         
  The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Clothing through World History
Reference/2nd floor GT507 .G74 2008  3 volumes
         
      Memoirs of the American Anthropological Association
Books/6th Floor GN2 A22
 
         
      Worldmark Encyclopedia of Cultures and Daily Life
Reference/2nd floor GN333 .W67 1998 
See the section "Clothing" under each nationality
 
     

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C Thomas / J Koga 05/14/2009