SA 443: Ethnographic Sensibility in Action - The Social Life of the Dead

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For Library research help, please contact Moninder Lalli, Librarian for Sociology / Anthropology by email moninder_lalli@sfu.ca or Ask a librarian.

Research process

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 reference works

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Databases for journal articles

How to find journal articles" tutorial. 

The databases below will provide articles on information technology and society.  If the full-text of the article is not available, use the "Get@SFU" link to find it.  For more examples of search strategies and the keyword combinations that you could try, see the examples under the section, "Finding books - Keyword searches for topics" in this guide.

Example:   "video games" AND (sociolog* OR anthropolog* OR ethnolog* OR social OR societ*)

For a more complete list, see Anthropology databases

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Library Catalogue search guide

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Books by title

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Keyword searches for topics

Combine different concepts using AND
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Use quotation marks to search for a phrase
Use brackets for synonyms
Use asterisk (*) for different endings of words

Note:  For Catalogue Search, when combining concepts, use CAPITAL letters ( "OR", "AND")

Selected books

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Library guides

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