ANTH 334: Economic Anthropology

Welcome to the class research guide for ANTH 334: Economic Anthropology with Dr. Adams. This guide will provide recommended library resources including reference materials, citation mining, and databases for your Not-A-Biography paper. 

You can find information on creating citations with Chicago (author-date) style at Snowden's Online Citation Station or at the in-person station on the first floor of the library. Librarians are also happy to help you with citing!

The open web is a great place to begin researching your anthropologist. Using your preferred search engine you can locate relevant materials that outline their history and intellectual communities, including: 

• Curriculum Vita (CV) or resume
• Personal websites dedicated to their research
• Institutional profiles or departmental websites
• Research community profiles, including ResearchGate and Google Scholar
• Professional association affiliations and memberships
• Interviews, presentations, and other non-scholarly publications 

Citation mining - also known as citation chaining or citation chasing - is a process for finding related materials by looking backwards and forwards in a source's timeline. This is especially important for your Not-A-Biography paper as you are tracing the communities, ideas, and works of your anthropologist. 

• Backwards: trace and locate related materials by using sources from the author's in-text citations and bibliography. To read the abstract or access the full-text of a specific source, copy and past the title in Snowden Super Search to connect with Lyco's holdings. 
   
• Forwards: discover who has cited a specific source in their own work since its publication. Use Google Scholar to search by title and use the "Cited by" feature to discover more materials. 

When searching in a database, you can change the field dropdown to “Author” to find articles, books, and other publications by your anthropologist.