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 [new, Sept 2023]
- 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 200W OL01: Power Conflict and Change in Canadian Society
- 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 302 Global Problems and the Culture of Capitalism
- SA 315: New Information Technology and Society
- SA 318: Technologies of Health and Expectation
- SA 322 Religion and Society
- SA 356: Ethnography & qualitative methods
- SA 365: Gender and Intimacy in China
- SA 388: Comparative Studies of Minority Indigenous Peoples
- SA 443: Ethnographic Sensibility in Action: The Social Lives of Video Games
- 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
- Dollars for life : the anti-abortion movement and the fall of the Republican establishment /
- Separate and dominate : feminism and racism after the War on Terror /
- The reproduction of inequality : how class shapes the pregnant body and infant health /
- Migrant labour and the reshaping of employment law /
- The Routledge diaspora studies reader /
- Social media : a critical introduction /
- The creation of poverty and inequality in India : exclusion, isolation, domination and extraction /
- The Anthem Companion to Norbert Elias /
- Social justice and the world of work : possible global futures : essays in honour of Francis Maupain /
- Key concepts and contemporary approaches to structures inequality : capital, power and status /
- Pitirim A. Sorokin : rediscovering a master of sociology /
- Genocide in Iraq : the case against the UN Security Council and Member States /
- Polygamy's rights and wrongs : perspectives on harm, family, and law /
- From Sylhet to Spitalfields : Bengali squatters in 1970s East London /
- The NAACP in Washington DC : from Jim Crow to home rule /
- Aspirational Chinese in Competitive Social Repositionings : A Re-Analysis of Societal Dynamics from 1964 to 2000 /
- This is not America : why black lives in Britain matter /
- Voices of a people's history of the United States in the 21st century : documents of hope and resistance /
- The talk /
- The invisible war : a World War I tale on two scales /
- Comparative assessment of social issues in Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean /
- Feminism and war : confronting US imperialism /
- Of two minds : the growing disorder in American psychiatry /
- Good Muslim, bad Muslim : America, the Cold War, and the roots of terror /
- Feminism and war : confronting US imperialism /
- Balancing work and new parenthood : a comparative analysis of parental leave in Australia, Canada, Germany and Sweden /
- Solidarity & care : domestic worker activism in New York City /
- Other worlds, other bodies : embodied epistemologies and ethnographies of healing /