Contact info
Moninder Lalli, Librarian for Sociology/Anthropology
You can contact Moninder Lalli to request for assistance with doing library research. In addition, help is also available through Ask a librarian.
Library service updates during COVID-19
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
- Finding ethnographies
- Research Methods for Anthropology and Sociology
- Researching Covid, Pandemics and Society
- Urban Transportation
Help with course assignments
- SA 101: Introduction to Anthropology (in-person and Distance)
- SA 201 Anthropology and Contemporary Life (in-person and Distance)
- SA 255: Introduction to Social Research
- SA 257: Understanding Quantitative Research in Sociology and Anthropology
- SA 301 Contemporary Ethnography
- SA 302: Global Problems and the Culture of Capitalism
- SA 352: Sports, Games and Cultures
- SA 356: Ethnography & Qualitative Methods
- SA 360 Special Topics: Youth and Society
- SA Graduate Students Library Research Guide
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
- This Arab is queer : an anthology by LGBTQ+ Arab writers /
- What is Latin American history? /
- A site of struggle : American art against anti-Black violence /
- Skin color, power, and politics in America /
- Land expropriation in ancient Rome and contemporary Zimbabwe : veterans, masculinity and war /
- A phenomenology of Indigenous religions : theory and practice /
- In the midst of radicalism : Mexican American moderates during the Chicano movement, 1960-1978 /
- The promise of Whiteness : its past and its future /
- Feminist ethnography : thinking through methodologies, challenges, and possibilities /
- How we win the Civil War : securing a multiracial democracy and ending white supremacy for good /
- Moving beyond boundaries /
- Interviewing : a guide to theory and practice /
- A sociology of family life : change and diversity in intimate relations /
- Disability and the sociological imagination /
- 200 words : to help you talk about sexuality & gender /
- On necrocapitalism : a plague journal /
- Doing field projects : methods and practice for social and anthropological research /
- Child support guidelines in Canada.
- Ineligible : single mothers under welfare surveillance /
- Political children : violence, labor, and rights in Peru /
- From occupation to occupy : antisemitism and the contemporary American left /
- Contemporary sociological theory /
- Resurrection hope : a future where Black lives matter /
- Discovering women's voices : the lives of modern Japanese silk mill workers in their own words /
- Research anthology on fandoms, online social communities, and pop culture /
- Refusing compulsory sexuality : a Black asexual lens on our sex-obsessed culture /
- The new laws of love : online dating and the privatization of intimacy /
- Practices, challenges, and prospects of digital ethnography as a multidisciplinary method /
- They believed that? : a cultural encyclopedia of superstitions and the supernatural around the world /
- Humanitarian borders : unequal mobility and saving lives /