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 reference works

• Emerald handbook of the sociology of emotions for a post-pandemic world : imagined emotions and emotional futures 
• Handbook of Anger, Aggression, and Violence 
• Handbook of the sociology of emotions 
• Oxford handbook of emotion dysregulation 
• Oxford handbook of philosophy of emotion 
• Palgrave Handbook of Affect Studies and Textual Criticism
• Routledge companion to gender and affect 
• Routledge international handbook of emotions and media 

Databases for journal articles

How to find journal articles" tutorial. 

Search for journal articles on your topic using the databases below.  From within the database, use the "Get@SFU" icon will to find copies of articles which are not full-text within the database or to initiate an inter-library loan request.

• Anthropology Plus — Key database for Anthropological journal articles
• AnthroSource - Full-text access to journals produced by the American Anthropological Association

Find books in the Library

Library Catalogue search guide

Search the SFU Library Catalogue.   You can also use  SFU Library Catalogue: Advanced Search

Books by title

Books can be searched by title using the "Browse by title" search, Catalogue Search or the Advanced Search.  The "Browse by title" will not show book chapters or book reviews.

Keyword searches for topics

You can limit search results by "subject" and "resource type" of "books"

Examples:

• (ethnogr* OR anthropol* OR ethnolog*) AND (affect* OR emotion*) AND (theor* OR defin*)
• (ethnogr* OR anthropol* OR ethnolog*) AND (affect* OR emotion*) AND (method* OR research)
• (ethnogr* OR anthropol* OR ethnolog*) AND (affect* OR emotion*) AND (race OR class OR ethnic* OR gender)
• (ethnogr* OR anthropol* OR ethnolog* OR femini* OR poststructural) AND (affect* OR emotion*) AND (cultur* OR societ*) AND theor*
• (ethnogr* OR anthropol* OR ethnolog*) AND (affect* OR emotion*) AND agency
• (ethnogr* OR anthropol* OR ethnolog*) AND (affect* OR emotion*) AND (mental* OR psycholog* OR psychiatr*)
• (ethnogr* OR anthropol* OR ethnolog*) AND (affect* OR emotion*) AND (indigen* OR aborig* OR native*)
• "mental heal*" AND (politic* OR bio-politic*) AND (diagnos* OR treat*)
• "affective care"
• "affective care" OR "care work*" OR "care labor" OR "care labour"
• ("affective care" OR "care work*" OR "care labor" OR "care labour") AND (affect* OR emotion* OR feeling* OR fear OR digust OR apath* OR love OR compassion OR empath*)

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

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

Selected books

• Affect, Alienation, and Politics in Therapeutic Culture: Capitalism on the Skin
• Affect theory reader
• Affect theory reader. 2 : worldings, tensions, futures 
• Affective Dimensions of Fieldwork and Ethnography
• Affective dynamics of mass protests : Midan moments and political transformation in Egypt and Turkey 
• Affective methodologies : developing cultural research strategies for the study of affect 
• Affectivity and race : studies from Nordic contexts 
• AI-Generated Popular Culture: A Semiotic Perspective
• Black Fatigue: How Racism Erodes the Mind, Body, and Spirit
• Case for Rage: Why Anger Is Essential to Anti-Racist Struggle
• Caste in Everyday Life: Experience and Affect in Indian Society
• Author/creator

  Bhoi, Dhaneswar 
• Cultural models of emotions 
• Cultural politics of emotion 
• Cultural Typologies of Love
• Decolonizing mental health : embracing Indigenous multi-dimensional balance [print]
• Doing Care, Doing Citizenship: Towards a Micro-Situated and Emotion-Based Model of Social Inclusion
• Emotions as bio-cultural processes 
• Emotions, remembering and feeling better : dealing with the Indian residential schools settlement agreement in Canada [print]
• Emotions, Senses, Spaces: Ethnographic Engagements and Intersections
• Enjoyment as enriched experience : a theory of affect and its relation to consciousness 
• Feeling Body: Affective Science Meets the Enactive Mind
• Global mental health : anthropological perspectives 
• Healing traditions : the mental health of Aboriginal peoples in Canada
• How emotions are made : the secret life of the brain [print]
• Hysterical : exploding the myth of gendered emotions [print]
• History of emotions : an introduction 
• Indigenous Autoethnography: Illuminating Māori Voices
• Facing the mountain : Indigenous healing in the shadow of colonialism [print]
• Overlapping Inequalities in the Welfare State : Strengths and Challenges of Intersectionality Framework 
• Performance, Feminism and Affect in Neoliberal Times
• Politics of affective societies : an interdisciplinary essay 
• Re/Imagining Depression: Creative Approaches to Feeling Bad
• Sensitive Objects: Affect and Material Culture
• Social and Affective Neuroscience of Everyday Human Interaction: From Theory to Methodology
• Structures of feeling : affectivity and the study of culture 
• Torn Many Ways: Politics, Conflict and Emotion in Research
• Visuality, Emotions and Minority Culture: Feeling Ethnic
• Working with affect in feminist readings : disturbing differences 

Browse books by selected subject headings

You can also "browse by subject" to find  books about a topic.

Catalogue Search / Browse, then change "Title" to "Subject" and enter "subject" terms.  For large lists, you can sort by "newest first"

• Affect
• Affect (psychology)
• Emotions
• Emotions (philosophy)
• Emotions -- Cross-cultural studies
• Emotions -- Social aspects
• Emotions -- Sociological aspects
• Indigenous peoples -- Mental health

Library guides

• Annotated bibliographies
• Evaluating sources
• How to find journal articles.
• Library Catalogue search guide.
• What is a scholarly (or peer-reviewed) journal?
• What is plagiarism?  Guide to common forms of plagiarism and how to avoid them.

Presentation skills

• Resources on developing your participation skills
• Resources to help you improve your presentation skills

Writing help

• Student Learning Commons
  • Academic writing resources
    • Writing for university
    • Academic writing
  • Book a consultation

Selected resources on writing essays:

• Writing ethnography 
• Writing for social scientists : How to start and finish your thesis, book, or article
  • Access to this book is limited to three-simultaneous users
• Writing up qualitative research