Anthropology 374: Identity and Place: Recent Perspectives on Diaspora Processes

Sources for Midterm Presentations and Review Essay

A number of resources and strategies may be helpful for this project. These are just a few places to start your work. Be sure to ask a reference librarian for additional assistance; we're here to help!

Abstracts in Anthropology.
Good place to find sources. A very general subject index appears at the end of each volume; entries in the index list abstract numbers, which you look up in the volume for that year.
Reference Indexes

Anthropological Index Online
From the Royal Anthropological Institute. Use the list of keywords to connect to articles on your topic; you can limit to year of publication in the search form.

AnthroSource
Searchable full text current issues of major journals published by the American Anthropological Association, plus a complete electronic archive of AAA journals through 2003. A new interface was posted in December 2008, and it seems a bit touchy; don't hesitate to ask a reference librarian for help with this. You may want to browse individual titles.

Academic Search Premier
Contains broad and specialized coverage of academic and general periodicals. Try searches like these:

  • anthropolog* and "forced migration"
  • anthropolog* and globali*
  • anthropolog* and diaspora
  • anthropolog* and place
The search for anthropolog* will locate entries containing any word that starts with anthropolog like anthropology, anthropologist, anthropological, and so on. It's good to search for globali* because there might be articles that use either the American spelling globalization or the British spelling globalisation.

ISI Web of Knowledge
Provides access to the Social Sciences Citation Index and the Arts & Humanities Citation Index, which include indexing for important titles in the social sciences and humanities over the past ten years. Author abstracts are provided for more than half of the articles included. Often used for citation searching.

Google Scholar
If you're going to Google, do it here. Look for the label Full Text @LU to locate things that might be availble here.

Once you have a citation for an article on your topic, try using the SFX button button or Citation Linker to see if that particular article is available. If you don't find it, you can submit a request for interlibrary loan (ILL) of a copy of the article: ILL takes about 7-10 days, so plan ahead. See the library's Interlibrary Loan page for more information.

Tips on reviewing articles: Take a look at the library's guide to evaluating books and articles.

The Sage Encyclopedia of Social Science Research Methods. 3 vols.
Provides essays, with bibliographies, on methods and isues in social science research.
Ref. H62 q.L456 2004

Created: 21 January 2009
Revised: 1 October 2009
Gretchen Revie
Reference Librarian and Instruction Coordinator