Anthropology 

Follow the steps here to find a book on your reading list

Use a Title search in the catalogue  eg.  Title searches are usually easier than author searches

Results

There are 2 results for the title. Record one is a book on the shelf.  It is available to be borrowed. Use the call number to find the book on level 3 of the library.

Record two is an electronic book. E-books are available off campus to read from home.  Enter in your username and password at the prompt.

Finding a chapter in a book

Always look up the title of the book in the catalogue, not the title of the chapter, which is in quotes.

eg Caldwell, M. 'Domesticating the french fry: McDonalds and consumerism in Moscow', in The anthropology of globalization: a reader eds. Jonathan Indi and Renato Rosaldo. Oxford UK. Blackwell

To Find items on Reserve (3 hour loan) or e-reserve (articles and chapters that have been digitised)

To find books on a topic for your assignment use the Catalogue keyword search. Choose your search terms from your essay topics.

Use your essay topics to select some search terms eg

eg the search globalization anthropology retrieves a list of 71 items with both these words in the record.

Browse the list by relevance or sort by date.

Experiment with other keywords such as globalization social problems or globalization social conditions

For more information about a book - contents subject headings etc. click on

NOTE Subject headings group books about the same topic together. Use them to find more relevant titles. For Example these are the subject headings listed for the book Modernities, class, and the contradictions of globalization : the anthropology of global systems

Culture and globalization.

Globalization -- Social aspects.

No need to use capitals

Leave out punctuation

Use truncation *  to find all forms of a word eg

cultur* 
-finds culture cultures cultural
globali*ation 
-finds globalization and globalisation

Use brackets and the word or for synonyms eg

children (television or tv)

finds children with the word tv or with the word televison