LibGuides: Anthropology: Anthropology Research

Researching Anthropology

This page is dedicated to helping you do research on Anthropology topics.

On this page you will find:

A link to our library catalog along with some helpful tips and tricks to keep in mind when searching Anthropology materials.
Preset database searches for Anthropology articles.
Scholarly books related to Anthropology.

These resources can also be found on our Library Resources page.

When you are not on campus and try to use the databases, you will be prompted for a username and password. If you do not know these and are a Schoolcraft student, then give the library a call and we will provide you with the information you need.

Our phone number is: (734) 462-4440

Catalog Search (w/ Tips and Tricks)

Schoolcraft Library Catalog

Use the library's catalog to search for Anthropology materials.

Tips to keep in mind when searching:

1) Searching for "Anthropology" under the Key Word or Subject criteria will not always give you the best results.

2) Instead, if you are searching for Anthropology materials available in our library's collection, then use one or more of the following Subject Headings:

Anthropology, Prehistoric
Archaeology
Educational anthropology
Ethnology
Human ecology
Human geography
Mythology
Philosophical anthropology
Physical anthropology
Social anthropology

3) As you explore our holdings, you'll discover more specific Subject Headings, such as:

Indians of North America Biography.
Mythology, Greek
Archaeology Excavations
Prehistoric, Archeology

These help narrow the focus of the search and can be helpful if you have a specific topic or genre you're interested in exploring. If you want to know all of the Subject Headings for a particular item in our catalog, then click the Catalog Record tab in the item's record. You can click on one of the Subject Headings and it will bring up a list of all the other items in the library that have the same Subject Heading.

Important Note: Keep in mind that some of these subject searches will return mostly (if not all) ebooks and online resources. If you are only interested in book results, then select BOOK under the "Format" option on the Advanced Search page. This will get rid of all the ebook and online resource results and only provide you a list of books under the selected subject.

Off Campus Library Database Access

Schoolcraft students, faculty, and staff can access library databases from off-campus through Blackboard by clicking the “Organizations” tab. Go to https://bb.schoolcraft.edu

Databases (w/ Preset Searches for Anthropology-Related Materials)

Anthropology Scholarly Materials

Ancient Bodies, Ancient Lives by Rosemary A. Joyce
Call Number: CC 72.4 .J69 2008
ISBN: 9780500051535
Publication Date: 2008
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The ancient Greeks saw men and women as expressing varying degrees of a single sexual potential; many Native American societies considered sexual identity as something that changed and developed during a lifetime, and recognized three or four categories of sexual identity.

Ranging from the earliest European hunters who created the first human images known to us almost 30,000 years ago to the lives of men and women from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries who seldom appear in conventional histories, Ancient Bodies, Ancient Lives explores how men and women have represented sexual differences, and lived lives shaped in part by those differences.
Bringing Fieldwork Back In by Elijah Anderson (Editor)
Call Number: GN 395 .A52 2012
ISBN: 9781452258942
Publication Date: 2012
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In 2001, the first of a series of ethnographic conferences took place in Los Angeles with an emphasis on fieldwork. Since then the field has gained a much larger disciplinary footprint. While the increase in substantial research in the field has risen dramatically, ethnographic styles of writing have emerged that fail to include much discernible fieldwork.

This volume of The Annals broaches the subject of improving fieldwork in the ethnographic spectrum through old-fashioned or "shoe leather" fieldwork. At a more recent ethnographic conference at Yale University in 2010 with a follow-up in June 2011, emerging ethnographers were mentored by senior scholars in whichthey presented an informal, yet supportive setting where ethnographic fieldwork could be constructively critiqued. This volume is a product of those collective efforts. The articles in this volume include insight into relations among affluent minorities, the status system we find in today'ssports, and a portrait of an employer of undocumented workers, among other articles. This volume will appeal to both undergraduate and graduate students with a wide range of interests including sociology, education, anthropology, and race and gender conflicts and problems.
The Meaning of Human Existence by Edward O. Wilson
Call Number: BD 450 .W5225 2014
ISBN: 9780871401007
Publication Date: 2014
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In The Meaning of Human Existence, his most philosophical work to date, Pulitzer Prize–winning biologist Edward O. Wilson grapples with these and other existential questions, examining what makes human beings supremely different from all other species. Searching for meaning in what Nietzsche once called "the rainbow colors" around the outer edges of knowledge and imagination, Wilson takes his readers on a journey, in the process bridging science and philosophy to create a twenty-first-century treatise on human existence—from our earliest inception to a provocative look at what the future of mankind portends.

Continuing his groundbreaking examination of our "Anthropocene Epoch," which he began with The Social Conquest of Earth, described by the New York Times as "a sweeping account of the human rise to domination of the biosphere," here Wilson posits that we, as a species, now know enough about the universe and ourselves that we can begin to approach questions about our place in the cosmos and the meaning of intelligent life in a systematic, indeed, in a testable way.