ANTHROPOLOGY OF EATING - ANTH 3541

BOOKS and REFERENCE SOURCES

GIL: UGA Libraries' Online Catalog - Search GIL to find books, VHS/DVDs, rare books & manuscripts.

How to set up a Keyword Search

1. Go to the Libraries' homepage and click on GIL Catalog.

2. Choose a Keyword Search in GIL. Enter your keywords into the search boxes and click Search.

3. The result list will show you items that match your keywords.

4. Choose a title from the list and click on it to find more information about the book. The full record will show you the citation at the top, subject headings (use these for other keyword ideas), location of the book (which library, what floor, what call number and if it is checked out).

Tip: If the location is listed as Repository, you can recall the book within 24 hours by visiting the Circulation desk or by filling out the Repository Request form at http://www.libs.uga.edu/maincirc/onlineforms/repository.html

5. Write down or print out the location of the book you have chosen. Use the library and call number to find the book.

Keywords and Subject Headings

Subject headings are a way to link to other items about the same topic - like a "More Like This" link. Some subject headings you may use for this assignment include:

Food
Food Habits
Food Habits - Cross Cultural Studies
Food Consumption - Cross Cultural Studies
Food Preferences
Nutrition (and infant nutrition, child nutrition, etc.)
Nutritional Anthropology or just Anthropology plus Food and a region

Combine these with an ethnic group or region to find sources. Like this:

Helpful Hint: Once you find a book on your subject, mine their bibliography for more sources to look up and add to your bibliography just as you would with journal articles.

GIL Help Sheet

UGA Reference & Print Materials:

Barer-Stein, Themla. You Eat What You Are: People, Culture and Food Traditions. Toronto: Firefly Books, 1999.

Bell, David. Consuming Geographies: We Are Where We Eat. London: Routledge, 1997.

Freedman, Robert L. Human Food Uses: A Cross-cultural, Comprehensive Annotated Bibliography. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1981.

Katz, Solomon H. Encyclopedia of Food and Culture. New York: Scribner, 2003.

Schveibinz, Marcy. Cultural Perspectives on Food and Nutrition. Beltsville, Md: National Agricultural Library, 1994.

Helpful Hint: It will also be helpful to browse the GT2850 section in the Main Library's Reference Area and 6th Floor for other materials.
 

 

Website revised September 2006. Created by Caroline Barratt (ccason@uga.edu), Reference Librarian, University of Georgia Libraries
Thanks to Anna Van Scoyoc for use of her template and sources