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Social Anthropology: Books

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The University of Manchester Library is home to a significant collection of books for Social Anthropology.

E-book Spotlight

Front cover of The Routledge International Handbook of Sensory Ethnography

The Routledge International Handbook of Sensory Ethnography

The Routledge International Handbook of Sensory Ethnography reviews and expands the field and scope of sensory ethnography by fostering new links amongst sensory, affective, more-than-human, non-representational, and multimodal sensory research traditions and composition styles. From writing and film to performance and sonic documentation, the handbook re-imagines the boundaries of sensory ethnography and posits new possibilities for scholarship conducted through the senses and for the senses. Sensory ethnography is a trans-disciplinary research methodology focused on the significance of all the senses in perceiving, creating, and conveying meaning. Drawing from a wide variety of strategies that involve the senses as a means of inquiry, objects of study, and forms of expression, sensory ethnography has played a fundamental role in the contemporary evolution of ethnography writ large as a reflexive, embodied, situated, and multimodal form of scholarship. The handbook dwells on subjects like the genealogy of sensory ethnography, the implications of race in ethnographic inquiry, opening up ethnographic practice to simulate the future, using participatory sensory ethnography for disability studies, the untapped potential of digital touch, and much more. This is the most definitive reference text available on the market, and is intended for advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and researchers in anthropology, sociology and the social sciences, and will serve as a state-of-the-art resource for sensory ethnographers worldwide (Provided by publisher).

Locating and borrowing books

You can use Library Search to search for both print and eBooks as well as a range of other resources including articles, journals, and databases.

Guide to printed collections

The Library uses the Dewey Decimal Classification scheme (Dewey for short) to arrange books and other resources on the shelves so you can locate them easily.

The vast majority of books relating to Social Anthropology and related subjects can be found in the Main Library.

 

Subject Areas Classmark(s) Location
Sociology and anthropology 301 Main Library - Blue Area - Floor 2
Culture and institutions 306 Main Library - Blue Area - Floor 2
Social sciences 300 Main Library - Blue Area - Floor 2
Social interaction 302 Main Library - Blue Area - Floor 2
Social processes 303 Main Library - Blue Area - Floor 2
Factors affecting social behaviour 304 Main Library - Blue Area - Floor 2
Groups of people 305 Main Library - Blue Area - Floor 2
Communities 307 Main Library - Blue Area - Floor 2
Civil and political rights 323 Main Library - Blue Area - Floor 2

 

More information: Locating books on shelves

For help with finding your way around the Main Library, please use our new Interactive Map.

Course reading lists

You can access your course reading lists in Blackboard: 

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Reading Lists

E-book collections

The Library provides access to numerous e-book collections that host many titles relating to Social Anthropology and related subjects. Follow this link to browse different collections you can explore to find e-books relating to your studies. 

E-book collections

E-book collections

Order a Book

If the Library doesn't already hold a copy of the book you need, fill in the Order a Book form and we will get it for you.

University staff should use the Order a Book (Staff) form.

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Theses and dissertations

Theses can be a valuable source of information for your research and are very useful points of reference for when you come to write your own thesis.

For detailed information on how to access theses from the University of Manchester, and from other universities in the UK and internationally, please visit our Theses Library Guide

 

Theses

 

 

Doctoral/Research Theses

  • Electronic versions of many open-access University of Manchester research theses, submitted from the 2010 session onwards, are available on Research Explorer, the University of Manchester’s research database.

 

Theses from other UK/International Institutions

  • ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global (PQDT Global)

    A searchable and browsable database of dissertations and theses from around the world, spanning from 1743 to the present day. It also offers full text for graduate works added since 1997, along with selected full text for works written prior to 1997. It contains a significant amount of new international dissertations and theses both in citations and in full text. Designated as an official offsite repository for the U.S. Library of Congress, PQDT Global offers comprehensive historic and ongoing coverage for North American works and significant and growing international coverage from a multiyear program of expanding partnerships with international universities and national associations.

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