ProQuest One Anthropology is the largest collection of ethnographic primary sources supporting students’ firsthand engagement with human diversity around the world. It provides a wide range of digital resources for the study of anthropology, including archives, manuscripts, video, and audio, which encompass foundational ethnographic research, historical field recordings, and visual anthropology materials.
Resources work in tandem to bring the fieldwork process to life by juxtaposing original fieldwork with subsequent published ethnographies, as well as follow up studies and visual ethnographies that span a century. It brings together field notes, ethnographies, video, audio, and manuscripts representing over 1,000 cultural groups and traditions and includes rare and unpublished primary materials.
ProQuest One Anthropology provides:
Anthropological Fieldwork Online
Anthropological Fieldwork Online digitizes early twentieth-century anthropological fieldwork, delivering a primary source database of field notes, images, recordings, correspondence, and manuscripts documenting ethnographic research and scholarly analysis.
Anthropology Online
Anthropology Online brings together ethnographies, seminal texts, and contemporary studies, providing a comprehensive collection of written scholarship supporting research across anthropological theory, methods, and global cultural studies.
Contemporary Anthropology: Archaeological Fieldwork and Methods
Contemporary Anthropology: Archaeological Fieldwork and Methods provides primary source materials on modern archaeological practice, including excavation records, field documentation, and resources illustrating methods, analysis, and interpretation of past societies.
Ethnographic Sound Archives Online
Ethnographic Sound Archives Online documents historic field recordings and supporting materials, providing access to global audio collections tracing music, sound, and culture within their ethnographic and historical contexts.
Ethnographic Video Online Series
Ethnographic Video Online Series provides streaming access to ethnographic films, documentaries, and field footage, supporting research and teaching through visual anthropology materials that document cultural practices and communities worldwide.
Ethnographic Video Online, Royal Anthropological Institute Teaching Edition
Ethnographic Video Online, Royal Anthropological Institute Teaching Edition connects curriculum-aligned video content with teaching guides, lesson plans, and activities supporting instruction in core anthropology topics including kinship, identity, belief systems, and culture.
Customer Resources
View the ProQuest One Anthropology Brochure
See titles available for ProQuest One Anthropology
See what's new in ProQuest One Anthropology
Find training and informational resources
Key Benefits
Trace The Scholarly Process
Students and researchers can follow anthropology from original field notes and draft manuscripts through published ethnographies, follow-up studies, and visual ethnographies spanning a century.
Multi-Format Anthropology Content
The collection includes archives, manuscripts, written ethnographies, films, field footage, documentaries, and historic audio recordings that support both advanced research and classroom learning.
Built For Teaching And Discovery
Deep indexing and searchable transcripts help users find material by cultural group, place, subject, and ethnographer, while curriculum-aligned teaching resources support introductory anthropology instruction.
Hours of ethnographic video
Hours of historic field recordings
Pages of field research & reference
Pages of teaching guides
Included Content / Coverage
Covers foundational ethnographic research, archaeological fieldwork and methods, seminal and contemporary ethnographies, ethnographic films, field footage, documentaries, and historic sound recordings. Content spans early 20th-century fieldwork through contemporary scholarship and represents more than 1,000 cultural groups globally.
Fast Facts
Content Format
Multimedia
Also part of...
Highlighted Subjects
Ethnography and fieldwork methods
Visual anthropology, ethnomusicology, and archaeological research
Type of Content
Archival materials
Ethnographies
Field recordings
Reference works
Unpublished field notes
Documentaries
Platform
Access on the ProQuest video platform
Also available on ProQuest platform
Territorial Rights
Worldwide with regional content restrictions
Related Products
ProQuest One Global Studies & International Relations
ProQuest One Global Studies & International Relations provides extensive resources for studying critical global issues in historical and contemporary contexts. Government documents and thematic collections providing archival materials, periodicals, news scripts, multimedia, and a wide range of primary and secondary sources support interdisciplinary research.
Read more
Music Online: Listening Collection
Music Online: Listening Collection provides institutions streaming access to millions of tracks across classical, jazz, world, American, popular, and historic recordings, supporting the teaching and research of music with broad global coverage and ongoing monthly growth.
Read more
ProQuest Digital Collections
ProQuest Digital Collections offers discipline-aligned multiformat content and vast primary sources spanning six centuries of essential content to serve researchers and students of all levels. The subscription includes many rare and exclusive resources, encompassing over 160 million primary source items. With broad, affordable access of scholarly content, the resource supports Black Studies, Anthropology, Entertainment & Popular Culture, Global Studies & International Relations, History, Literature, Performing Arts, Visual Arts & Design, and Women's Studies.
Read More