Find the Cultural, Historical, Political, and Social Context
Directories with Background Information about Organizations and Associations:
- Encyclopedia of Associations: International Organizations"Covers multinational and national membership organizations from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe - including U.S.-based organizations with a binational or multinational membership."
- Encyclopedia of Associations: National Organizations of the U.S."Comprehensive source of detailed information concerning nonprofit American membership organizations of national scope."--Summary in catalog record.
- Yearbook of International Organizations OnlineAnnually updated directory with detailed information about international organizations.
Discover Country-Level Social and Political Context:
- Europa World PlusOnline.
Updated annually.
Economic, political, historical, and geographic profiles of 250+ countries and global regions. Directory information for political, business, media, and cultural agencies and officials, including 1,900 international organizations.
Anthropology Encyclopedias (for more information about ethnography):
- Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology2023- .
(formerly Cambridge Encyclopedia of Anthropology (2016-2022))
"[I]ts goal is to facilitate access to scholarship in Social Anthropology for experts and non-experts worldwide. All entries are written and peer-reviewed by leading academics." -- Home page - International Encyclopedia of AnthropologyWiley, 2018.
"Over 1,000 entries, ranging from concise summaries to longer writings, present the reader with in-depth discussions of hundreds of key topics, including: ecology, human evolution, gender, health, language and education, kinship, politics, and power, as well as biographical entries of many of the world’s most influential founding anthropologists." -- About this reference work
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- Encyclopedias Online: Use Subject Encyclopedias to Understand Your TopicThis online guide links to a wide variety of reliable subject encyclopedias purchased by the library.