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Butler University

AN 102 02, Introduction to Anthropology

Fall 1999

Instructor: Eriberto P. Lozada Jr.
email: elozada@butler.edu
tel: 940-9270

Library Assignment

This exercise is designed to help you become familiar with doing research in the library, as well as learn something about Anthropology. It builds on the introduction to the library resources in Anthropology given by Erin Davis, who is the Anthropology Program’s liaison with Irwin Library and is available to help if you run into difficulties.

Choose a topic from the list below. You are then expected to research this, using several of the resources described to you in the library tour. These include books, journals, newspapers, reference materials, and electronic resources (especially information databases). At the library you will be shown how to use Iliad, Academic Search Elite, Lexus-Nexus, First Search, and other library services. We shall also be visiting the Rare Book Room, on the second floor, as well as the archives in the basement of the library, to check out some of the less well-known resources available to you.

The main lesson of this exercise is the research process itself, rather than the facts that you discover. Your response paper should include a brief description of the topic itself, but the bulk of the response paper should be a bibliography and description of how and where you found the material. You should have a minimum of four different types of sources, of which at least one should be from an information database, from the web (make sure you cite web pages properly), from a book or journal, and from a source held in the reference section (i.e., an encyclopedia). Conclude your response paper with a "lessons learned," comments on your research experience.

When citing material, follow the format of American Ethnologist. This means you have to browse the bibliography of articles in American Ethnologist to see how this is done. When citing the web, follow the following format:

Author’s Last Name, First Name (if known), year of document or last revision, full title of work, the title of the complete work, date of document or last revision (if available), URL, date of access in parentheses.

(Example)

Lozada, Eriberto 1999. Global Shanghai: Images from Preliminary Fieldwork, 1999. Fuji Lozada's Homepage. http://trevor.butler.edu/~elozada/ (September 2, 1999).

Topics

potlatch	occidentalism
australopithecus (especially australopithecus garhi, if you can find it)	fourth world women
Nuer	Bronislaw Malinowski
Hakka	pipe stem dating
Beijing Women’s Conference	Ainu

If you need any further information or help, please email or call me, or stop by during office hours. The response paper is due in class on 10 September 1999.

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  Box 6969
  Davidson, NC 28035 USA

  office: Chambers B12
  tel. 704-894-2035
  fax. 704-894-2842
  erlozada@davidson.edu

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