ANTH 1120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Jstor, American Anthropological Association
31 Jan 2017
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Joys and challenges of anthropology as an academic discipline. Draws from and builds on social, physical, and biological sciences and humanities. Anth needs info from other disciplines (eg med, socio, busi) Anth does not have comprehensive database for article searching. Anth databases are not the same standard as psych/socio/edu/med ones. Think of your topic in broader terms. Find resources that address those broader terms. Let the literature guide you in choosing/focusing in on a topic. Keep an open mind about what your final research question will be. Three relevant sources required: academic sources. 1 book from yu libraries catalogue: from anthropology or sociology perspective, on a topic relating to process , development , or social stratification/inequality . Summary of main points and evaluative component (evaluating the argument/way the argument was framed) Eg bolivians protest canadian mining company: engineers kidnapped after lethal clashes . Step 2: turn the topic into a search statement. Identify the most important words in the question.
