LibGuides: Anthropology: Starting out

Welcome to your Anthropology Subject Guide!

The purpose of this guide is to help you with your study and research in the field of Anthropology by gathering all the resources that you will need (books, journals, databases, websites and a referencing guide) into one place.

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New Books Available for Borrowing Undergraduates: 6 items | 2-week loan period Honours: 12 items | 4-week loan period Senior Postgraduates: 20 items | 8-week loan period

Symbols of Nations and Nationalism by Gabriella Elgenius
ISBN: 9780230247871

Publication Date: 2011-08-26
Rites of Return by Marianne Hirsch (Editor); Nancy K. Miller (Editor)
ISBN: 9780231150910

Publication Date: 2011-11-29
The Politics of Display by Sharon Macdonald (Editor)
ISBN: 0415153263

Publication Date: 1998-01-22
Heritage and Globalisation by Sophia Labadi (Editor); Colin Long (Editor)
ISBN: 9780415571128

Publication Date: 2010-06-15
Africans in Global Migration by edited byJohn A. Arthur, Jospeh Takougang, and Thomas Owusu.
ISBN: 9780739198001

Publication Date: 2014-06-02
The Transcultural Turn by Lucy Bond (Editor); Jessica Rapson (Editor)
ISBN: 9783110337525

Publication Date: 2014-03-31
Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage by edited by Michelle L. Stefano, Peter Davis and Gerard Corsane.
ISBN: 9781843837107

Publication Date: 2012-04-19
A Jewish Guide in the Holy Land by Jackie Feldman
ISBN: 9780253021373

Publication Date: 2016-04-11
Displays of Power (with a New Afterword) by Steven C. Dubin
ISBN: 0814718906

Publication Date: 2001-01-01
Interpretive Planning for Museums by Marcella Wells; Barbara H. Butler; Judith Koke
ISBN: 9781611321579

Publication Date: 2013-02-01
Heritage, Museums and Galleries by Gerard Corsane (Editor)
ISBN: 0415289467

Publication Date: 2005-01-21
After Heritage by Hamzah Muzaini (Editor); Claudio Minca (Editor)
ISBN: 9781788110730

Publication Date: 2018-07-27
Intellectuals and the Articulation of the Nation by Ronald Grigor Suny (Editor); Michael D. Kennedy (Editor)
ISBN: 0472088289

Publication Date: 2001-07-30
Conservation of Architecture, Urban Areas and Landscape by Andrew Dolkart (Editor); Osamah M. Al- Gohari (Editor); Samia Rab (Editor)
ISBN: 9789957540067

Publication Date: 2011-03-01
Sustaining Identity, Recapturing Heritage by Ann E. Denkler
ISBN: 9780739119921

Publication Date: 2010-03-15
Public Monuments by Sergiusz Michalski
ISBN: 1861890257

Publication Date: 1998-12-01

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