On this page
- Contact info
- Essay
- Selected encyclopedias and handbooks
- Characteristics of ethnographic sources
- Find books in the library
- Books on your topic and ethnographic
- Ethnographic books on a country or region, but not necessarily on your topic
- Ethnographic and Anthropological comics
- Browse subjects
- Find journal articles
- Searching databases for ethnographic articles
- Selected journals
- Find author affiliation
- Library guides
- Writing help
- Selected resources on writing
Contact info
For Library research help, please contact Moninder Lalli, Librarian for Sociology / Anthropology by email (moninder_lalli@sfu.ca) or Ask a librarian.
Essay
Start Your Research Here - This page gives you an overview of the research process, or in other words how to find materials for your essay.
Selected encyclopedias and handbooks
- Ethnography and virtual worlds: a handbook of method
- Handbook of autoethnography
- Handbook of ethnography
- International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences (Article: Agar, M.H. Ethnography)
- Palgrave Handbook of Institutional Ethnography
- Palgrave Handbook of Urban Ethnography
- Routledge companion to digital ethnography
- Routledge international handbook of ethnographic film and video
For more, try Anthropology guide's "Background information"
Characteristics of ethnographic sources
- author is an anthropologist (has an anthropology degree) or is working in an anthropology department, and the article is published in an anthropology journal
- article is based on fieldwork (article will indicate that in the content).... anthropologists are looking at what people do and say about culture and society and everyday life, and it is based on the anthropologist observing these people and being immersed in their social context over a long period of time. Anthropologists tend to speak in anecdotes and from the people's point of view.
- article looks at how people are affected --going along, resisting, talking about it, how ideas come alive in the life of people, or how it matters in the life of people.
Since the articles need to be from an anthropological point of view, search the A-Z Journals List for the following:
- American Anthropological Association (AAA) -- here is a listing of AAA journals to help guide your search
- Anthropological societies / associations -- you may also want to examine these groups and look at their publications
- Annual review of anthropology
Find books in the library
How to use the Library Catalogue [guide]
Do a Library Catalogue search to see if the Library owns or provides access to the sources that you've identified.
For known items it is best to check using "Browse by title" icon.
Search by topic, using Basic or Advanced Search
Books on your topic and ethnographic
Use either 'ethnography' OR 'ethnology' in combination with the name of the people you're researching or the geographic region in which they live.
Note: In the searches below, you can limited results to "Online Resources only" and "Resource type" of "Books"
In addition if you want to find a book or book chapters, you can limit the results to "Subjects" of "ethnography" and also "ethnology"
- ethnograph* AND blackfoot
- ethnograph* AND "great basin"
- ethnolog* AND(blackfoot OR "great basin")
- ethnograph* AND theor*
- ethnograph* AND reflex*
- ethnograph* AND (embod* OR subjectiv*)
- (ethnograph* OR ethnolog*) AND comics
- (ethnograph* OR ethnolog*) AND identity
Combine different concepts using AND
Combine same concepts using OR
Use quotation marks to search for a phrase
Use brackets for synonyms
Use asterisk (*) for different endings of words
Use pulldown menu and select, "Source Types" as "Books"
Note: For Catalogue Search, when combining concepts, use CAPITAL letters ( "OR", "AND")
Ethnographic books on a country or region, but not necessarily on your topic
To search for a whole book that is ethnographic, but not necessarily on your topic do the following:
In "Catalogue search", use the "Browse search" tab.
Change the default, "title" to "subject"
Search: for "Ethnology" and then the "name of country"
E.g. Ethnology -- Fiji
Selected books
- A Different Kind of Ethnography: Imaginative Practices and Creative Methodologies
- Alive in the writing : crafting ethnography in the company of Chekhov
- Being ethnographic : a guide to the theory and practice of ethnography
- Contemporary ethnographies : moorings, methods, and keys for the future
- Critical ethnography : methods, ethics, and performance
- Critical Writing for Embodied Approaches: Autoethnography, Feminism and Decoloniality
- Cultural constructions of identity : meta-ethnography and theory
- Decolonizing ethnography : undocumented immigrants and new directions in social science
- Developing a critical ethnographic method : positionality, ontology and analysis
- Decolonizing ethnography : undocumented immigrants and new directions in social science
- Designing and conducting ethnographic research. [print]. Vol.1 of Ethnographer's Toolkit series (7 volumes).
- Ethnographic Research and Analysis: Anxiety, Identity and Self
- Ethnography in today's world : color full before color blind [print]
- Experimenting with Ethnography: A Companion to Analysis
- Fifty key anthropologists
- How to read ethnography
- Indigenous methodologies : characteristics, conversations and contexts [print]
- It happens at Comic-Con : ethnographic essays on a pop culture phenomenon [print]
- Jesus in our wombs embodying modernity in a Mexican convent [print]
- Native Americans in comic books : a critical study
- Reading ethnographic research : a critical guide
- Reflexive Ethnographic Practice: Three Generations of Social Researchers in One Place
- Video ethnography
- Vita: Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment
- Women’s Manga in Asia and Beyond Uniting Different Cultures and Identities
- World of DC comics
Ethnographic and Anthropological comics
The books, below, are part of University of Toronto Press' EthnoGrahic Series.
- Gringo love : stories of sex tourism in Brazil
- King of Bangkok
- Light in dark times : the human search for meaning
- Lissa : a story about medical promise, friendship, and revolution [print] [another e-book on another platform]
Browse subjects
For specific groups or regions, try "Ethnology" and the name of a country or geographic area.
Browsing by the Subject Heading: "Ethnology" and the subheading(s) for different geographic region(s) of the world
- Anthropological ethics
- Anthropologists
- Anthropology -- Fieldwork
- Anthropology -- Methodology
- Ethnologists -- Biography -- Dictionaries
- Ethnology
- Ethnology - (geographic area)
- Ethnology -- Fieldwork
- Ethnology -- Methodology
- Ethnology -- Fiji
- Ethnology -- North America
- Ethnology -- Authorship
- Ethnology -- Encyclopedias
- Ethnology -- Fieldwork
- Ethnology -- Methodology
- Ethnology -- Philosophy
- Ethnology -- Research
- Marginality, social
Find journal articles
Characteristics of the sources
- author is an anthropologist (has an anthropology degree) or is working in an anthropology department, and the article is published in an anthropology journal
- article is based on fieldwork (article will indicate that in the content).... anthropologists are looking at what people do and say about culture and society and everyday life, and it is based on the anthropologist observing these people and being immersed in their social context over a long period of time. Anthropologists tend to speak in anecdotes and from the people's point of view.
- article looks at how people are affected --going along, resisting, talking about it, how ideas come alive in the life of people, or how it matters in the life of people.
Since the articles need to be from an anthropological point of view, search the A-Z Journals List for the following:
- American Anthropological Association (AAA) -- here is a listing of AAA journals to help guide your search
- Anthropological societies / associations -- you may also want to examine these groups and look at their publications
- Annual review of anthropology
Searching databases for ethnographic articles
Anthropology Focused Databases
- Anthropology Plus
- The resource indexes material relating to anthropology and archaeology and many of the journals by the American Anthropological Association
- Use the Descriptor term, Ethnography then add your other subject terms describing your topic
- DE "Cultural anthropology", also provides interesting cultural studies, but check with your professor to see if these are acceptable as "ethnographies"
- Use the Descriptor term, Ethnography then add your other subject terms describing your topic
- The resource indexes material relating to anthropology and archaeology and many of the journals by the American Anthropological Association
- AnthroSource -- Full-text access to journals produced by the American Anthropological Association
For a longer list, try Anthropology Databases, or the Anthropology resource guide.
Non-Anthropology Databases
- Sociological Abstracts -- Sociological aspects of twenty-nine broad topics, including anthropology.
- first search for "anthropol* - limit to "Publication title -- PUB" index
- then add your other concepts in other search boxes
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Social Sciences Full Text -- access to English-language social science journals.
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first search for "anthropol* - limit to "SO Journals name" index,
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then add your other concepts in other search boxes
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- JSTOR
- Searchable, archival collection of core scholarly arts, humanities and social sciences journals, except for the most current 5-7 years of a journal since this is an "archival" collection.
- Note: Use "advanced search" and limit the search to "anthropology" subset of journals
- it will accept the truncation symbol.
- since full text is being searched, you may consider using putting quotation marks around your "phrase words" to ensure that the words appear together.
- Academic Search Premier
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Underground & Independent Comics, Comix, and Graphic Novels - Covers a wide-range of history and criticism. Includes full-text access to The Comics Journal, as well as interviews, criticism, images, and journal articles that document the continual growth and evolution of this art form.
Selected journals
Browse these relevant journals for ethnographic journal articles
- Acta ethnographica Hungarica
- American ethnologist
- Annual review of anthropology
- Critical ethnic studies
- Cultural anthropology
- Ethnography
- Ethnology
- Journal of Contemporary Ethnography
- Journal of intergroup relations
- Social analysis
- Urban anthropology
- Voices : a publication of the Association for Feminist Anthropology
For more, try "Browse by Subject" search for Ethnology -- Periodicals
Find author affiliation
- Web of Science -- A combined search of all of the Web of Science Citation indexes. This database does not do any "subject" indexing but it does provide author affiliations
- Google Scholar -- Search specifically for scholarly literature. This would be good for when you do find something useful, enter the details of the reference, and then see who is citing those article -- use the link "cited by"
Library guides
- Library Research Tutorials. Animated tutorials on search techniques for finding books and journal articles
- Evaluating sources
- How to place an Inter-Library Loan request - to obtain books and articles from another library (free).
Writing help
- Student Learning Commons
- Academic writing resources
- Writing for university
- Academic writing - a list of over 200 books.
- Academic writing resources
- Book a consultation
Selected resources on writing
Ethnology -- Authorship (books on writing ethnographies)