Contact info

Moninder Lalli, Librarian for Sociology/Anthropology
778.782.4264 (Voicemail only)
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
• 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

• 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