The link above takes you to W&L's Primo database listing. This set, which is the most renowned encyclopedia on Native Americans, still is available only in printed form -- call number E 77.H25 in our Reference collection on Leyburn's Main Floor.

Third edition (2000) of a collection of official and quasi-official documents on the "history of the relations between the United States government and the American Indians from the founding of the nation to the end of the twentieth century."

Volume contains 27 original essays, summarizing the state of anthropological knowledge of Indian peoples, as well as the history that got us to this point. You may preview the contents

Individual volumes cover history and native people of four regions of the U.S. -- Southeast, Southwest, Great Plains, and Northeast.

Three-volume set synthesizes scholarship on the Native American past, covering all states and the native peoples who lived in them. You may preview the contents

Third edition (2015) is a guide to "each tribe’s history and modern-day life, including location and land status, government and infrastructure, community services and facilities, cultural traditions, economic activity, and contact information including official tribal web addresses. It features and unprecedented amount of information about 567 federally recognized tribes in 34 American states."

Five-volume set, published in 2006, contains about 1,000 signed entries that "focus on topics in physical/biological anthropology, archaeology, cultural/social anthropology, linguistics, and applied anthropology. Also included are relevant articles on geology, paleontology, biology, evolution, sociology, psychology, philosophy, and theology." You may preview a list of entries.

Second edition (2009) combines anthropological theory and ethnography, including 275 substantial entries, over 300 short biographies of important figures in anthropology, and nearly 600 glossary items, all alphabetically arranged.

The IESBS (2002) is the largest reference work on the social and behavioral sciences ever published -- over 4,000 signed articles in 26 printed volumes.

Covers scholarship and fields that have emerged and matured since the publication of the original international edition. Highlights the expanding influence of economics in social science research and features new articles and biographies contributed by scholars from around the world on a wide array of global topics in the social sciences. Acquisition was made possible by the McCrum Palmer Book Fund.

Edited by Mircea Eliade, this 2005 fifteen-volume set is the most important encyclopedic work on religion.

This is the third edition (2003) of the most comprehensive encyclopedia on American history, comprising ten volumes in printed form. The 4,400 signed articles range in length up to 7,000 words. [ preview ]