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ANTH 245: Ethnographer's Craft

with Prof. Mark Chatarpal

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Access the vast resources available at the Vassar College Libraries. Use Library Search to locate books, special collections, media, government documents, and electronic resources, including journals, journal articles, ebooks, databases, and more.

Key Call Number Ranges

RM216- RM237: diet, dietary cookbooks (Rm 97)
TX 631- TX 837: home economics, nutrition, food and food supply, cooking, hospitality industry/service, restaurants (Rm 97)
GT2834: anthropology, customs re: eating and drinking (Rm 39)

Featured eBook Collections:

Studies in Food & Culture, California University Press

Food & Indigeneity in the Global South Spring 2025 Book Exhibit

Online Exhibit Archive

Worldcat
Online catalog of books and other material cataloged by OCLC member libraries worldwide

Newspaper & Magazine Collections

Newspapers & Magazines Current

Newspapers & Magazines Historical

Article Databases

AnthroSource
American Anthropological Association publications
Anthropology Plus

Index to scholarship in anthropology, archaeology and related interdisciplinary research. Date range: approximately 1800-present

This product combines the Royal Anthropological Institute’s Anthropological Index and Harvard University's Anthropological Literature databases

Sample search: diaspora AND (food OR diet OR meals OR cookbooks)

Hathi Trust
Collaborative repository of digitized books, magazines, journals, and government publications. Materials date from approximately 1530-to 2020.
JSTOR
Provides full text online access to back issues of selected scholarly journals in history, economics, political science, architecture and art history and other fields. Consult the online tables of contents for holdings, as coverage varies for each title, but usually ends several years before the current year.
Ethnic NewsWatch
Newspapers, magazines and journals from ethnic, minority and native presses.
Includes the module Ethnic NewsWatch: A History™, which provides historical coverage of Native American, African American, and Hispanic American periodicals from 1959-1989. Full coverage: 1959 - present.

For historical content, date filter for years "1959-1989".
Sociological Abstracts
Index to literature in sociology and related disciplines (anthropology, economics, education, medicine, political sciences, and more) Abstracts of journal articles, conference papers, dissertations, books, and book reviews.

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Subjects: Anthropology