Contact info
Moninder Lalli, Librarian for Sociology/Anthropology
You can contact Moninder Lalli to request for assistance with doing library research. In addition, help is also available through Ask a librarian.
Library guides
- Welcome video -- for a quick introduction to using the Library website for research and to get help.
- Library tutorials
- How to place an Interlibrary Loan (ILL) request
Help by topics
- Films for Social Sciences [new, Sept 2023]
- Finding ethnographies
- Research Methods for Anthropology and Sociology
- Researching Covid, Pandemics and Society
- Researching Race and Racism
- Urban Transportation
ICPSR (Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research)
- How to Read a Journal Article (pdf) - Tips and tricks to make reading and understanding social science journal articles easier.
Help with course assignments
- SA 101: Introduction to Anthropology (in-person and Distance)
- SA 200W OL01: Power Conflict and Change in Canadian Society
- SA 201 Anthropology and Contemporary Life (in-person and Distance)
- SA 218 Illness, Culture and Society
- SA 255: Introduction to Social Research
- SA 257: Understanding Quantitative Research in Sociology and Anthropology
- SA 301 Contemporary Ethnography
- SA 302 Global Problems and the Culture of Capitalism
- SA 340: Social Issues and Social Policy Analysis
- SA 356: Ethnography & qualitative methods
- SA 443: Ethnographic Sensibility in Action - The Social Life of the Dead
- SA Graduate Students Library Research Guide
Indigenous
- SFU Library guide: Indigenous Studies Research Resources
- SFU Library guide: Indigenous Curriculum Resource Centre
- SFU’s Aboriginal Reconciliation Council’s final report: Walk this Path With Us
New Anthropology books
For other new books, see Selected new books and other items purchased by the Library
- Theories of the policy process /
- The Seductions of Quantification : Measuring Human Rights, Gender Violence, and Sex Trafficking.
- Reform and Development of the Old-Age Security System in China.
- Coming out as Dalit : a memoir of surviving India's caste system /
- Being Muslim in Indonesia : religiosity, politics and cultural diversity in bima. /
- Muslim and British post-9/11 : identities in reflexive modernity /
- Feeding ghosts : a graphic memoir /
- Skin colour politics : whiteness and beauty in India /
- 1934 : the Chatham Coloured All-Stars' barrier-breaking year /
- The transgender encyclopedia /
- Touristic world-making and fan pilgrimage in popular culture destinations /
- Accidental sisters : refugee women struggling together for a new American dream /
- Refugee pathways to freedom : escaping persecution and statelessness /
- Qualitative research with diverse and underserved communities /
- Critical participatory inquiry : an interdisciplinary guide /
- The Black box : writing the race /
- So We Can Know : Writers of Color on Pregnancy, Loss, Abortion, and Birth.
- Our data, ourselves : a personal guide to digital privacy /
- Sexual and reproductive justice : from the margins to the centre /
- American fury : essays on moral outrage in culture and politics /
- It's not about whiteness, it's about wealth : how the economics of race really work /
- Roots and rebellion : personal stories of resisting racism and reclaiming identity /
- Diversity and the transition to adulthood in America /
- Brown skins, white coats : race science in India, 1920-66 /
- Looking through the speculum : examining the women's health movement /
- Clinical anthropology 2.0 : improving medical education and patient experience /
- Latinoland : a portrait of America's largest and least understood minority /
- Insurgent Communities How Protests Create a Filipino Diaspora.
- The movement : the African American struggle for civil rights /
- Contextualizing Angela Davis : the agency and identity of an icon /