Contact info
Moninder Lalli, Librarian for Sociology/Anthropology
moninder_lalli@sfu.ca
You can contact Moninder Lalli to request for assistance with doing library research. In addition, help is also available through Ask a librarian.
Library guides
- Welcome video -- for a quick introduction to using the Library website for research and to get help.
- Library tutorials
- How to place an Interlibrary Loan (ILL) request
Help by topics
- Films for Social Sciences
- Finding ethnographies
- Research Methods for Anthropology and Sociology
- Researching Covid, Pandemics and Society
- Researching Race and Racism
- Death, Dying, and Grief (Gerontology guide)
- Urban Transportation (Gerontology guide)
ICPSR (Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research)
- How to Read a Journal Article (pdf) - Tips and tricks to make reading and understanding social science journal articles easier.
Help with course assignments
- SA 101: Introduction to Anthropology (in-person and Distance)
- SA 201 Anthropology and Contemporary Life (in-person and Distance)
- SA 275: China in Transition
- SA 322 Religion and Society
- SA 356: Ethnography & qualitative methods
- SA 443 / SA 887: Ethnographic Sensibility in Action - Politics, Affect & Emotion
Graduate students
- SA Graduate Students Library Research Guide
- SA 443 / SA 887: Ethnographic Sensibility in Action - Politics, Affect & Emotion
Indigenous
- SFU Library guide: Indigenous Studies Research Resources
- SFU Library guide: Indigenous Curriculum Resource Centre
- SFU’s Aboriginal Reconciliation Council’s final report: Walk this Path With Us
New Anthropology books
For other new books, see Selected new books and other items purchased by the Library
- The origins of critical race theory : the people and ideas that created a movement /
- Taiwan travelogue : a novel /
- The plunder of black America : how the racial wealth gap was made /
- Another world is possible : lessons for America from around the globe /
- Between us : healing ourselves and changing the world through sociology /
- Community /
- Social problems : a Canadian perspective /
- Asian Americans at the margins : a history of stereotyping, discrimination and achievement /
- Suburban refugees : class and resistance in little Saigon /
- Open Marxism : Critical theory as militant enlightenment /
- Gigatrends : six forces that are changing the future for billions /
- Transnationalities of migrant moral economies in a transforming world /
- Ethiopian Americans : History, Culture, and Experiences /
- Changes in attitudes to immigrants in Britain, 1921-2021 : from alien to migrant /
- Inequality around the world : understanding the rich-poor divide from America to Zimbabwe.
- Subsumption in Kant, Hegel and Marx : from the critique of reason to the critique of society /
- Technology & society : social networks, power, and inequality /
- Climate hope : stories of action in an age of global crisis /
- Towards justice : a critical theory of global society and politics /
- Social media cultures /
- Post-Work : What It Is, Why It Matters and How We Get There.
- Black lives in Britain : a survey, 1830-1940 /