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DANC 077B : Visual Anthropology of Performance (SC)
Exploring:
Visual Anthropology
Article by Jay Ruby in Encyclopedia of Cultural Anthropology, David Levinson and Melvin Ember, editors. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1996.
VisualAnthropology.Net
Includes links to a variety of resources as well as a searchable database of publications in visual anthropology.
Visual Anthropology Review
Journal of the Society for Visual Anthropology
Documentary Educational Resources
Includes study guides to many of the films for this class as well as filmmaker biographies and other resources.
Dance and Diaspora Course Guide
Created for Swarthmore's Dance 25 class.
Finding Videos and Books:
TRIPOD (Tri-College Library Catalog)
Use Tripod (shared with Haverford and Bryn Mawr Colleges) to find recorded performances of the works you want to explore and to find books and essays on your topic. Here are some searching hints:
- Keyword Searches: Start with words used to describe your topic. Try a variety of words and include the Boolean operators AND, OR, and NOT to explore many possibilities.
- Subject Headings Searches: Tripod uses Library of Congress subject headings. They are not always intuitive. For example the official term for movies or films is "motion pictures". Instead of starting with a subject heading search you may want to start with a keyword search. Browse through the list of results until you find something that looks relevant to your research. Click on the link and look through the description of the item to find "official" library terminology for the topic. You can then click on the links in Tripod labeled, "Subject".
- Limiting Searches: You can limit searches in two ways. Before you begin searching you can choose a specialized search such as "Videos/DVDs". Also, after getting search results you can click on the "limit/sort search" button or the "modify search" button to refine your results.
WorldCat
Provider: OCLC
This is a gigantic catalog of millions of resources owned by libraries all over the world listing documentaries, books, sound recordings, journals, manuscript collections and websites.
Finding Journal Articles:
ProQuest Research Library
Provider: ProQuest
Provides citations and full-text magazine and journal articles in a wide variety of disciplines, both scholarly and popular in scope. Covers 1971-present.
JSTOR
Provides full-text and page images from many of the top journals in most academic disciplines. Coverage is from the inception of the journal through three to five years ago.
Arts & humanities citation index
Provider: ISI
Multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities with selected, relevant items from major science and social science journals. Covers 1975- present.
Anthropology plus
Provides abstracts on journal articles, reports, commentaries and obituaries in many fields including social, cultural, physical, biological and linguistic anthropology; archaeology, ethnology, folklore and interdisciplinary studies. Covers the late 19th century-present.
AnthroSource
Provides full text articles from American Anthropological Association journals, newsletters, and bulletins. Covers 1888-present.
Anthropological index online
Offers information on journals kept at the Anthropology Library of the British Museum. Provides citations on a large number of titles in all areas of anthropology. Covers 1957-present.
International index to the performing arts
Publisher: [Alexandria, Va.] : Chadwyck-Healey, Inc.,
Provides abstracts and full-text to journal articles. Covers a broad spectrum of the arts and entertainment industry including dance, film, television, theater, opera, and broadcasting. Covers 1864-present.
Evaluating Sources:
Scholarly Journals vs. Popular Magazine Articles (USTA Library)
This page compares the two types of publications on several levels, including language, structure of articles, editorial procedures, and credits.
Evaluating Information Found on the Internet (Johns Hopkins University Library)
Discusses the criteria by which scholars in most fields evaluate print information, and shows how the same criteria can be used to assess information found on the Internet.
Getting Materials not at Swarthmore:
If something you need is not available on Swarthmore’s campus then it can be requested through our Tri-College Borrowing and Interlibrary Loan services.
Citing Sources:
Chicago manual of style
Chicago/Turabian Documentation
From the University of Wisconsin Writing Center
Guidelines for Citing Videos
From Williams College.