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This is a guide to finding the best resources for research in Anthropology.
Last Updated: Apr 22, 2013 URL: http://libguides.newcastle.edu.au/anthropology Print Guide RSS UpdatesEmail AlertsShareThis

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This guide is designed to help you get started with your library research.

Click on the tabs above to find information about locating anthropology resources

      
     

    Tips & Tricks

    What are Secondary Sources?  Journal articles & chapters etc... written about a work of literature and offering a critical view of that work are called literary criticism.

    What are Primary Sources?  Original works of literature and uninterpreted information about an event or period of time.

    Beware Wikipedia!
    It can't be cited in academic essays (avoid sites where authors aren't accountable for contributions). 

    Evaluate! Evaluate! Evaluate!
    Be critical about everything you read

    Avoid Plaigiarism
    Don't use an author's work or ideas without referencing them (yes, even if it's not directly quoted & you've changed the words)

     

    Books of Interest

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    Age Estimation in the Living - Black, Aggrawal & Payne-James
    ISBN: 9780470519677
    This book summarizes and explains the main approaches to age estimation in the living, defining when a parameter may be of use and raising awareness of its limitations. This text ensures that practitioners recognize when an assessment is beyond their area of expertise or beyond verification depending upon the clinical data available.

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    Oxford Handbook of Language Evolution - Maggie Tallerman (Ed); Kathleen R. Gibson (Ed)
    ISBN: 9780199541119
    60 leading scholars present critical accounts of every aspect of the field.... insights from comparative animal behaviour; the biology of language evolution (anatomy, genetics & neurology); the prehistory of language (when & why did language evolve?); the development of a linguistic species; and language creation, transmission, and change.

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    Pacific Worlds - Matt K. Matsuda
    ISBN: 9780521715669
    Matsuda ranges across the frontiers of colonial history, anthropology and Pacific Rim economics and politics, piecing together a history of the region. The book identifies and draws together the defining threads and extraordinary personal narratives which have contributed to this history, showing how localised contacts and contests have often blossomed into global struggles over colonialism, tourism and the rise of Asian economies.

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    Religion in Human Evolution - Robert Neelly Bellah
    ISBN: 9780674061439
    A wide-ranging, nuanced probing of our biological past to discover the kinds of lives that human beings have most often imagined were worth living.... How did our early ancestors transcend the quotidian demands of everyday existence to embrace an alternative reality that called into question the very meaning of their daily struggle? Robert Bellah, one of the leading sociologists of our time, identifies a range of cultural capacities, such as communal dancing, storytelling, and theorizing, whose emergence made this religious development possible.

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    The most human human : a defence of humanity in the age of the computer - Brian Christian
    ISBN: 9780670920792
    A provocative exploration of the ways in which computers are reshaping our ideas of what it means to be human. Its starting point is the annual Turing Test, which pits artificial intelligence programs against people to determine if computers can "think."

     

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