Hello, I am Heather, and I am the librarian for your discipline!
I have created this guide to supplement AN 454, Anthropological Theory.
This guide will help you find resources. You don't need to use outside resources in your writing assignments in Dr. Sanchez's course, but you may want to supplement the provided resources with other items online.
This guide will show you how to find peer-reviewed articles through the USA Library.
If you have any questions, please email me at hmbutler@southalabama.edu. Include your course number and professor's name in the subject line.
Anthropology Search Video: follow along with me in a search for anthropology-related journal articles!
A database is a collection of many different journals that can all be searched at once. Databases allow you to limit your search by certain filters, usually including by peer-review status.
For this course's assignments, you would only be looking for online articles that can supplement the class's readings.
The class readings are a great place to find search terms to use in your online searches. Search terms are the words or phrases you enter into the search boxes to create a search.
You can borrow search terms from your assigned readings:
A database is searched by creating a search query. A search query is the combination of search terms, filters, and code that you type or select before clicking the search button.
This is an example of a search in Academic Search Complete:
This is an example of a search in JSTOR: