Aloha Jim, 

I thought if you have not yet used the Public Anthropology Journal Archive (or remind you if you have not used it recently) that you can search for ANY AUTHOR, TOPIC, OR CULTURAL GROUP written about in the American Anthropologist from 1888 through 2000. There is a reasonable chance you will find articles that you never knew existed. Try it and see. All you have to do is click here for "site search" - its located at the bottom of the left hand column of the webpage (http://www.publicanthropology.org/)  or, easier still, click here for advanced search http://www.publicanthropology.org/home%20(site-search).htm)

For example, if you are interested in the MAYA, do you know ALL the articles written on them (or that make significant comparative reference to them) in the American Anthropologist? Here is a year by year list with the authors for each article. Do you recall who said what? (To check your memory, click on advanced search and type in Maya.)

1888 (Brinton), 1891 (Quevedo, Thomas), 1893 (Thomas), 1894 (Fewkes, Saville), 1895 (Fewkes, Hager), 1896 (Thomas), 1897 (Gunckel), 1899 (Thomas), 1900 (Bowditch, Thomas), 1901 (Bowditch), 1902 (Gordon, Gordon, Thomas), 1904 (Wilder), 1905 (Goodman), 1906 (Fewkes, Rust), 1907 (Swanton), 1911 (Howe, Thompson), 1914 (Hagar), 1915 (Hagar, Judd, Spinden), 1918 (Morley, Wilson), 1919 (Popenoe, Popenoe, Willoughby), 1920 (Roys), 1921 (Lothrop), 1922 (Roys), 1923 (Roys), 1924 (Blom), 1925 (Radin, Ricketson, Teeple), 1926 (Mac Leod, Teeple), 1927 (Teeple, Teeple), 1928 (Estabrooks, Macleod, Redfield, Ricketson, Teeple), 1931 (Beyer), 1932 (Thompson, Whorf), 1933 (Beyer, Roys, Spinden), 1934 (Andrews, Butler, Eggan, Redfield), 1935 (Butler), 1936 (Beyer, Butler, Weitlaner), 1938 (Cresson, Satterthwaite, Thompson), 1939 (Lothrop), 1941 (Lothrop), 1945 (Krieger), 1951 (Starr), 1955 (Millon, Nicholson), 1956 (Willey), 1957 (Coe), 1962 (Cowgill), 1964 (Holland), 1965 (Golkind, Vogt), 1967 (Nash, Reina), 1968 (Rosaldo), 1971 (Lange), 1973 (Berlin/Breedlove/Raven), 1991 (Hendon, Lounsbury), 1989 (Fox), 1994 (Gossen, Mascia-Lees, Nash), 1995(Griffith, Low), 1997 (Brady, Crooks, Griffith, Houston, Jones, and Nash), 1998 (Gutierrez-Estevez, Wright/Chew), 1999 (Wright/Chew), and 2000 (Gillespie, Hendon)

And can you recall not only ALL the articles written by BOAS in the American Anthropologist but what he said in each? Here is a list of his articles. To rediscover what he wrote about in each of them, click on advanced search and type in Boas.):

Anthropometry of Shoshonean Tribes (1899) , Changes in the Bodily Form of Descendants of Immigrants (1912), Changes in Bodily Form of Descendants of Immigrants (1940), Evolution and Diffusion? (1924) , Heredity in Anthropometric Traits (1907), Heredity in Head Form (1903), In Memoriam: Herman Karl Haeberlin (1919), Northern Elements in the Mythology of the Navaho (1897), Notes On the Chatino Language (1913), Notes on the Chemakum Language (1892), Notes on the Chinook Language (1893), On Alternating Sounds (1889), On the Variety of Lines of Descent Represented in a Population (1916), Physical Characteristics of the Indians of the North Pacific Coast (1891), Property Marks of Alaskan Eskimo (1899), Report on the Academic Teaching of Anthropology (1919), Sketch of the Kwakiutl Language (1900), Some Recent Criticisms of Physical Anthropology (1899), The Cephalic Index (1899), The Classification Of American Languages (1920), The Correlation of Anatomical or Physiological Measurements (1894), The Head-forms of the Italians as Influenced by Heredity and Environment (with Helene Boas) (1913), The Methods Of Ethnology (1920), The Origin of Totemism (1916), The Social Organization of the Kwakiutl (1920), The Social Organization of the Tribes of the North Pacific Coast (1924), The Vocabulary of the Chinook Language (1904), Waldemar Bogoras (1937),

Feel free, then, to use the Journal Archive in your research and please remind your students about it. (Since there are two summaries of each article, readers get a "bifocal" overview of each article.) And please pass word of the Journal Archive on to colleagues, especially those overseas. It is an easy way to find out who said what when.

Remember, to use the site search, click here and look at the bottom left corner (http://www.publicanthropology.org/) or click here for advanced search (http://www.publicanthropology.org/home%20(site-search).htm).  If you have trouble with the URL hotlinks, simply cut and paste them into your internet browser.

Regards,

Rob

Webmaster, www.publicanthropology.org 
Professor of Anthropology, Hawaii Pacific University
Director, Center for a Public Anthropology
Editor, California Series in Public Anthropology    http://www.publicanthropology.org/Bookseries/UCseries.htm