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 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
- Urban Transportation
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
Fall
- SA 101: Introduction to Anthropology (in-person and Distance)
- SA 200W OL01: Power Conflict and Change in Canadian Society
- SA 201 Anthropology and Contemporary Life (in-person and Distance)
- SA 219: Culture, Mental Health, and Therapeutic Governance
- 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 322 Religion and Society
- SA 356: Ethnography & qualitative methods
- SA 364: Urban Communities and Cultures
- SA 365: Selected Regional Areas - State, Society, and the Everyday in South Asia
- SA 359: Special Topics: Mental Health, Culture & Therapeutic Governance
- 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
- A concise introduction to mental health in Canada /
- Africans in diaspora and diasporas in Africa /
- The color of asylum : the racial politics of safe haven in Brazil /
- Refugees, forced migrants, and human tragedies : an interdisciplinary critical perspective /
- African migrations : traversing hybrid landscapes /
- Complementary and alternative medicine sourcebook : basic consumer health Information about ayurveda, acupuncture, aromatherapy, chiropractic care, diet-based therapies, guided imagery, herbal and vitamin supplements, homeopathy, hypnosis, massage, meditation, naturopathy, pilates, reflexology, Reiki, Shiatsu, Tai Chi, traditional Chinese medicine, yoga, and other complementary and alternative medical therapies ; along with statistics, tips for selecting a practitioner, treatments for specific health conditions, a glossary of related terms, and a directory of resources for additional help and information /
- Shelter on the journey : humanitarianism, human rights, and migration /
- Making the human : race, allegory, and Asian Americans /
- Jewels of the Qila : the remarkable story of an Indo-Canadian family /
- Fragments of home : refugee housing and the politics of shelter /
- Out of the fire : healing black trauma caused by systemic racism using acceptance and commitment therapy /
- Sanctuary people : faith-based organizing in Latina/o communities /
- How we walk : Frantz Fanon and the politics of the body /
- Racing to justice : transforming our conceptions of self and other to build an inclusive society /
- Black activist, scientist, icon : the autobiography of Dr. Howard D. McCurdy /
- Multicultural politics : racism, ethnicity, and Muslims in Britain /
- The meaning of race : race, history and culture in Western society /
- States of return : rethinking migration and mobility /
- Toward a New Art of Border Crossing.
- African immigrants and the American experience : race, anti-Black violence, and the quest for the American dream /
- The making of biblical womanhood : how the subjugation of women became gospel truth /
- Muslim and Catholic experiences of national belonging in France : rethinking boundaries, inequities, and faith in the republic /
- The Resilience of Multiculturalism : Ideas, Politics and Practice : essays in honor of Tariq Modood /
- Blackbird : how Black musicians sang the Beatles into being and sang back to them ever after /
- Embodied testimonies, gendered memories, and the poetics of trauma : exploring the intersection of deconstructionist and postcolonial trauma theory /
- The era was lost : the rise and fall of New York City's rank-and-file rebels /
- Refiguring in black /
- Refugee cities : how Afghans changed urban Pakistan /
- Sustainable capitalism : essential work for the Anthropocene /
- Labor market dynamics in Turkey during the last 100 years /