Shelf surfing is a good way to find books that are not easily found in the catalog. Knowing where to look for books on primates is key to finding the books on the shelf. Below are call numbers sorted by subject. Books on anthropology are often listed under Anthropology; Ethnology. Social and Cultural Anthropology; Culture and Cultural Processes; or Cultural Traits, Customs, and Institutions.
Anthropology
Ethnology. Social and cultural anthropology
Culture and cultural processes
Cultural traits, customs, and institutions
The following is a partial list of subject headings related to Anthropology that can be used to locate books and other items in the FAU Libraries Catalog.
The video below will help walk you through starting your first search for physical print book in the FAU Libraries Catalog. If you are still having trouble after watching the video please feel free to reach out to your liaison librarian or through our other help options located on the library's help page.
Below is a very small list of books that are considered seminal works in anthropology. Please note that is this is not a comprehensive list.
Coming Age in Samoa by
The groundbreaking classic detailing Margaret Mead's first field work at age 23, establishing Mead's core insights into childhood and culture that challenged and changed our view of life. Rarely do science and literature come together in the same book. When they do -- as in Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, for example -- they become classics, quoted and studied by scholars and the general public alike. Margaret Mead accomplished this remarkable feat not once but several times, beginning with Coming of Age in Samoa. It details her historic journey to American Samoa, taken when she was just twenty-three, where she did her first fieldwork. Here, for the first time, she presented to the public the idea that the individual experience of developmental stages could be shaped by cultural demands and expectations. Adolescence, she wrote, might be more or less stormy, and sexual development more or less problematic in different cultures. Mead's revolutionary book, dedicated to the girls of Tau, was one of the first studies to pay attention to girls' lives. Her keen observations contain many ideas that are still powerful today--that sexuality is culturally-shaped, that adolescence need not be stressful, and that the lives of adolescent girls are worthy of attention and respect. Now this groundbreaking, beautifully written work as been reissued for the centennial of Mead's birth, featuring introductions by Mary Pipher, Ph.D. (Reviving Ophelia) and by Mead's daughter, Mary Catherine Bateso (Composing a Life).
Kwakiutl tales by
Kwakiutl (Indiens) -- Folklore
Kwakiutl (Langue)
Indiens d'Amérique -- Amérique du Nord -- Folklore
Indians of North America
Kwakiutl Indians
Kwakiutl language
On the Origin of Species by
In 1831 British naturalist Charles Darwin joined a five-year expedition on the ship HMS Beagle. As the crew explored the southern hemisphere, Darwin took extensive notes on the organisms he encountered and how they differed from the species back home in England. He began to formulate ideas about the effect of natural selection on the evolution of species over time. The evidence he gathered, especially finch specimens collected from South America and the Galápagos Islands, provided further proof for his theory. In 1859, more than twenty years later, Darwin published his research--and sparked a heated debate. Misunderstood by theologians and misappropriated by eugenicists, it would be years before Darwin's controversial theory gained widespread acceptance in the scientific community. This is an unabridged version of Charles Darwin's fundamental text on evolutionary biology.
Disclosing the Past by
By way of prelude -- Childhood and forbears -- First encounters with archaeology -- Growing up -- The beginning of a partnership -- Africa for the first time -- Marriage to Louis -- The war years in Kenya -- After the war -- From Proconsul to 'Zinj' -- The partnership breaks down -- The end of the chapter -- Picking up the threads -- The Laetoli years -- People and places -- A time of change and reflection.
Electronic and Print Reference Books
Below is a list of electronic and print reference books that may assist you in your research. Please note that this is not a comprehensive list but rather a starting point. For additional electronic books, see the library catalog at www.library.fau.edu.
For additional electronic books, see the library catalog at www.fau.edu/library or the following databases under the link databases: Social Sciences Premium Collection, Sage Reference and AnthroSource
If a book, article or other item is not available at your library, you must Interlibrary Loan the item/s.
Go to the following link to request the item be sent to your campus library: Interlibrary Loan
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