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 200W OL01: Power Conflict and Change in Canadian Society
- SA 201 Anthropology and Contemporary Life (in-person and Distance)
- SA 203: Violence in War and Peace
- 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 318: Technologies of Health and Expectation
- SA 340: Social Issues and Social Policy Analysis
- SA 352: Sports, Games and Cultures
- SA 356: Ethnography & Qualitative Methods
- SA 371: The environment and society
- SA 388: Comparative Studies of Minority Indigenous Peoples
- 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
- National security surveillance in southern Africa : an anti-capitalist perspective /
- Opioid reckoning : love, loss, and redemption in the rehab state /
- Outsiders : memories of migration to and from North Korea /
- Crossing the current : aftermaths of war along the Huallaga River /
- Testimony and trauma : making space for healing /
- Totalitarianism in the postmodern age : a report on young people's attitudes to totalitarianism /
- Pastoralist-farmer conflicts in Nigeria : a human displacement perspective /
- Marxism and phenomenology : the dialectical horizons of critique /
- Sustaining social conflict : hatred, money, and genocide /
- Human rights responsibilities in the digital age : states, companies and individuals /
- Knowledge, power, and networks : elites in transition in modern China /
- Decolonizing civil society in Mozambique : governance, politics and spiritual systems /
- Ömie sex affiliation : a Papuan nature /
- Japanese American incarceration : the camps and coerced labor during World War II /
- Beyond text : learning through arts-based research /
- Invisible presence : the representation of women in French-language comics /
- Between dreams and ghosts : Indian migration and Middle Eastern oil /
- Dynamics of identification and conflict : anthropological encounters /
- The Hangover After the Handover : Places, Things and Cultural Icons in Hong Kong /
- Common enemies : Georgetown basketball, Miami football, and the racial transformation of college sports /
- Coloniality and racial (in)justice in the university : counting for nothing? /
- The Anthem companion to Robert K. Merton /
- Nomads : the wanderers who shaped our world /
- The Mvengian vision of anthropological pauperization : a path for philosophical reflection on Ntu? /
- Journeys of Asian diaspora mapping originations and destinations
- Feminist post-development thought : rethinking modernity, post-colonialism & representation /
- Status and culture : how our desire for social rank creates taste, identity, art, fashion, and constant change /
- Faith and Culture : Reconciling the Christian Belief with Igbo Faith Experience Today /
- Handbook of research on protecting and managing global indigenous knowledge systems /
- Stories from empowered women /