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Contact info
For Library research help, please contact Moninder Lalli, Librarian for Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies 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 encyclopedias and handbooks
Use encyclopedias, dictionaries and handbooks to obtain definitions and overviews of a topic and also to identify key authors
- International encyclopedia of dance - Nearly 2,000 articles on all aspects of dance
- Oxford Dictionary of Dance - Covers all aspects of the diverse dance world
- Oxford Handbook of dance and ethnicity
- Routledge companion to dance studies
Find journal articles
Databases let you easily to search for articles from within scholarly journals for a discipline.
If the full-text of the article is not available within the database then use the "Get@SFU" link to find it or to initiate an inter-library loan request.
- Women's Studies International -- Start with this database and then search other databases.
- Anthropology Plus - Key database for Anthropological journal articles.
Find books in the Library
Library Catalogue search guide
Search the SFU Library Catalogue: Advanced keyword
For the searches below, you can further limit the search results by "Subject" or "Resource type" (such as "books)
- embodied knowledge
- embod* AND danc*
- (body OR embod*) AND method* AND (ethnograph* OR ethnol*)
- (body OR embod*) AND method* AND (ethnograph* OR ethnol*) AND (dance OR dancing)
- embod* AND method* AND (ethnograph* OR ethnol*)
- anthropolog* AND danc*
- ritual performance
- "dance anthropology"
- dance AND (cultur* OR memory OR ritual OR social identity) AND (anthropolog* OR ethno*)
- You can also search for names of peopls: Gertrude Kurath, Joann Keali’inohomoku, Katherine Dunham
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")
Look at the titles in the "results list" and for those books that look relevant, click on their subject headings.
Selected books
- Choreography As Embodied Critical Inquiry: Embodied Cognition and Creative Movement
- Collaborative intimacies in music and dance : anthropologies of sound and movement
- Critical Writing for Embodied Approaches: Autoethnography, Feminism and Decoloniality
- Cultural Memory and Popular Dance : Dancing to Remember, Dancing to Forget
- Dancing across the page : narrative and embodied ways of knowing [print]
- Dancing cultures : globalization, tourism and identity in the anthropology of dance
- Dancing Indigenous Worlds : Choreographies of Relation
- Dancing into voice : articulating and engaging embodied knowledge
- Dancing motherhood
- Emerging bodies : the performance of worldmaking in dance and choreography
- Fields in motion: ethnography in the worlds of dance
- In Defence of the Human Being: Foundational Questions of an Embodied Anthropology
- Ritual, performance and the senses
- The Self in Performance: Autobiographical, Self-Revelatory, and Autoethnographic Forms of Therapeutic Theatre
- Ways of knowing : anthropological approaches to crafting experience and knowledge
- World dance cultures : from ritual to spectacle [print]
Selected subject headings to find books
These selected Library of Congress Subject Headings will assist you with finding books on research methods.
Use the Browse Search option in the SFU Library Catalogue, then select "Subject" browse from the drop-down menu.
- Anthropology -- Research
- Dance
- Dance -- Anthropological aspects
- Ethnology -- Methodology
- Feminism and dance
- Participant observation
- Participant research
Library guides
- Library Research Skills [interactive tutorial]
- What is plagiarism? [guide]
- Evaluating sources
- Referencing and citation management software For help, please contact us at citation-managers@sfu.ca
- Tutorials
- Student Learning Commons & Writing help
Writing help
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