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Theories of Culture

Course Number: AN200

Subject: Anthropology

Library Anthropology Bonus Exercise

AN200 Library Anthropology exercise

This library orientation is designed to help you use your skills as a 2nd year Anthropology student to observe and describe things in the library you may not have encountered before.

The first part of the tour starts at the Robert Langen Gallery. The gallery is found on the Main (2nd) floor of the library to the left when you walk in the main entrance doors. It is all the way to the back of the main foyer area.

Here is a link to the 2nd floor plan with a description

Please proceed to the Gallery for the first stop.

The gallery is currently hosting an exhibit by the South-Asian/Canadian artist Vicky Talwar, entitled Shifting Energy

Go into to the gallery and have a look at the exhibition. 

In the next section of the form, you'll give a brief impression of the exhibit, providing photos of a piece of artwork in the exhibit.

LIFT Exhibition

Next, go to the 5th floor of the library and look at the LIFT Exhibition. It's located on the wall directly opposite the elevators. 

Finding a book by your Anthropological Theorist of choice

Using the techniques we learned in class, you'll find a book in print by the Anthropologist of your choice. 

You'll need to look up your Anthropologist by Author using the Omni catalogue. Use the filters to limit your books to those available in Print in the Laurier collection only.

Once you've decided on your book, you'll have to find the physical copy in the collection. If you've never done this before, check out our tutorial on how to locate books: https://library.wlu.ca/help/tutorials/locate-books-availability-and-location-information 

Then you'll need to find: 

1. A citation from the catalogue in Chicago style
2. A photo of the actual call number of the book, on the book spine.
3. A photo of the book's title page.

 
Additional quick tutorials
Confused about library terms?

What is a style guide?

A style guide (or manual of style) is a set of standards for the design and writing of documents, often for a specific publication, organization, or field. The purpose of a style guide is to establish and enforce formatting style to improve communication. One particularly important portion of a style guide is how it describes how sources are cited (documented). There are hundreds of publication style guides, including APA, MLA, and Chicago. There is even a Laurier Style Guide for web content.

What is citing, and why should I do it?

What is Chicago?

The Chicago Manual of Style (CMS, CMOS, Chicago) is a style guide published by the University of Chicago Press that describes aspects of editorial practice used for document preparation, including how to cite other sources. Turabian is a style that is based on Chicago, but is aimed specifically at the academic community. 

Consult the Turabian Citation Quick Guide for Author-date style sample citations.

The Laurier Library also subscribes to the entire manual online (v17 and v16). Use it Part III: Source Citations and Indexes, to determine the rules and examples of citing.

Note that Chicago offers two formats for citation:

  • Author-Date (in text citations, with a bibliography -- suggested for this class)
  • Notes-Bibliography (numbered footnotes/endnotes, with a bibliography)

What does Chicago (Author-Date) look like?

Article (Duclos 2017, 23)

Dipio, Dominica. 2019. "Telenovelas in Uganda: mediating transcultural conversations." Journal of African Cultural Studies 31, no. 2: 164-179. https://doi.org/10.1080/13696815.2018.1503079.

Book (Holton 2017, 55)

Holton, M. Jan. 2017. Longing for Home: Forced Displacement and Postures of Hospitality. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press.

Book Chapter (Scheid 2016)

Scheid, Anna Floerke. 2016. "Human Bodies, Human Rights." In Public Theology and the Global Common Good: the Contribution of David Hollenbach, 39-50. Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, 2016.

Streaming Video (Her Story, 2016)

Her Story: The Female Revolution—The Personal Story. 2016. Accessed September 19, 2017. https://fod-infobase-com.libproxy.wlu.ca/PortalPlaylists.aspx?wID=98462&xtid=128865.

Where can I get citation information?

Many online databases offer the ability to generate citations from the record. NOTE that these are automatically generated, and will generate mistakes if mistakes exist in the record -- and the often do. In the end, you are responsible for your bibliography.

The OWL Purdue web site has a wealth of information and examples of the Chicago Style. See this sample paper.

Should I use citation management software?

It depends on how much time you want to invest in learning the software. Check out the details.

FYI: Citation styles by discipline

  • Anthropology - Chicago
  • Art History - Chicago or Turabian
  • Biology - CSE
  • Business - APA, Chicago or Harvard
  • Chemistry - ACS
  • Communications - MLA
  • Computing Science - Chicago
  • Criminology - APA or Chicago
  • Education - APA
  • History - Chicago or Turabian
  • International Studies - APA, APSA, or Chicago
  • Journalism - CP or APA
  • Law & Legal Studies - Bluebook, Maroonbook or ALWD
  • Linguistics - use APA, MLA or LSA
  • Literature - use MLA
  • Mathematics - AMS
  • Medicine - AMA or NLM
  • Music - Turabian or Chicago
  • Philosophy - MLA or Chicago
  • Physics - AIP
  • Political Science - APSA
  • Psychology - APA
  • Religion - MLA or Chicago
  • Sociology - ASA

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