Anthropology

Check out this video to learn how to manipulate your search to get the resources you need.

Before you begin your search, compile a list of potential keywords related to your topic. For example, on the topic of women's economic rights in ancient Athens, keywords might include:

• women
• females
• gender
• economics
• land ownership
• property
• economic rights
• Athens
• ancient Greece

Keywords can be combined with other keywords using the AND operator to narrow your topic. For example:

• women AND media
• women AND farming
• women AND marriage

Keywords can be combined with synonyms using OR to broaden your search. For example:

• women OR females

Quotation marks can be used to search phrases. For example:

• "global studies"
• "international relations"
• "ancient Rome"

Putting these terms in quotes means that the words will be searched as a phrase rather than each word separately.

Terms in quotes can be combined with Boolean operators. For example:

• citizenship AND "human rights"

If an author is currently working as an anthropologist, he or she will be found most commonly working at a university and be listed on a university’s website. Their educational background, credentials, publications, and sometimes their CV will be listed. If the person is not living, or if you cannot find the person associated with a university, refer to one of the following works:

• The Routledge Dictionary of Anthropologists
• Fifty Key Anthropologists
• Women Anthropologists: A Biographical Dictionary