We now have trial access to a new database :  Ethnographic Video Online

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From the publisher’s description:

The collection covers every region of the world and features the work of many of the most influential documentary filmmakers of the 20th century, including interviews, previously unreleased raw footage, field notes, study guides, and more.  Still in development, the collection will also include a wide range of indigenous media, from early experiments, to works from modern-day indigenous film production companies.

This first release of Ethnographic Video Online includes over 200 titles totaling roughly 150 hours, indexed at the title-level. The second release, scheduled for Summer 2010, will more than double the size of the database.    The rich and unique content is enhanced by a suite of tools with Semantic Indexing and searchable transcripts synchronized to video,  offering the ability to drill down and find the footage of interest from hundreds of hours of video.

Video can be shared via embeddable links; user-created playlists and clips, with annotation features and the ability to incorporate other content from outside the collection; and more. These features and capabilities render video as useful for research and classroom use as any scholarly text.

The trial is available from now to April 11, 2010.

Please be sure to provide feedback via the form on the info page or directly to me.

In celebration of their 40th Anniversary, BC Studies has created audio recordings of forty of the most influential articles published in the journal to-date.

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Articles of anthropological interest include:

  • Invention of Anthropology in British Columbia’s Supreme Court: Oral Tradition as Evidence in Delgamuukw v. B.C. by Julie Cruikshank
    BC Studies #95, Anthropology and History in the Courts (Autumn 1992), pgs: 25-42. (download mp3)
  • The Pivotal Role of the Northwest Coast in the History of Americanist Anthropology by Regna Darnell
    BC Studies #125/126, Ethnographic Eyes (Spring/Summer 2000), pgs: 33-52. (download mp3)
  • “That’s My Dinner on Display” : A First Nations Reflection on Museum Culture by Gloria Jean Frank
    BC Studies #125/126, Ethnographic Eyes (Spring/Summer 2000), pgs: 163-78. (download mp3)

There are many more – see the full list of 40 here. If you’d prefer to read the articles, check out our print and online options to read the journal BC Studies here.

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Happy New Year to you all!

If you visit the UBC Library homepage, you’ll notice there has been a change in appearance corresponding to the new UBC common look and feel.

The familiar pathways you use to access library information and services are still there. For example, the frequently used links under “Find”, “How To”, “Subject Resources” and “My Account” are the same – they’ve just shifted to the left hand side of the page.

What’s new? Main changes include:

1. A new “one search” box linking to a new search tool that allows you to search for a term and get results from many of our different electronic resources within one search interface. For more information on this tool, go here.

2. A rotating “carousel” highlighting key library news and events

3. Events and news automatically updated on the main page so that you can quickly see upcoming workshops such as RefWorks, Current Awareness Tools, and more

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Kitchenspace : women, fiestas, and everyday life in central Mexico, by Maria Elisa Christie.

Throughout the world, the kitchen is the heart of family and community life. Yet, while everyone has a story to tell about their grandmother’s kitchen, the myriad activities that go on in this usually female world are often devalued, and little scholarly attention has been paid to this crucial space in which family, gender, and community relations are forged and maintained. To give the kitchen the prominence and respect it merits, Maria Elisa Christie here offers a pioneering ethnography of kitchenspace in three central Mexican communities, Xochimilco, Ocotepec, and Tetecala.
[University of Texas Press]

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Global indigenous media : cultures, poetics, and politics, edited by Pamela Wilson and Michelle Stewart.

In this exciting interdisciplinary collection, scholars, activists, and media producers explore the emergence of Indigenous media: forms of media expression conceptualized, produced, and created by Indigenous peoples around the globe. Whether discussing Maori cinema in New Zealand or activist community radio in Colombia, the contributors describe how native peoples use both traditional and new media to combat discrimination, advocate for resources and rights, and preserve their cultures, languages, and aesthetic traditions. By representing themselves in a variety of media, Indigenous peoples are also challenging misleading mainstream and official state narratives, forging international solidarity movements, and bringing human rights violations to international attention.
[Duke University Press]

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Winter session exams begin on December 3 and go until December 17. The Anthro exam schedule is here.

Did you know the AMS has an exam database with final exams from a variety of undergrad courses? Studying from previous years’ exams can be a great way to supplement your course knowledge and prepare for finals. Currently, the database has exams for these Anthro courses:

  • ANTH 103
  • ANTH 140
  • ANTH 305
  • ANTH 322

UBC Library is running a trial of the eLibrary eBook platform. You can access the trial here: http://toby.library.ubc.ca/resources/infopage.cfm?id=1484

This trial provides access to eBrary’s Academic Complete collection, which includes 37,000 books across 20 subject areas, including 100s of titles in Anthropology and Archaeology.

Some sample titles of interest include:

  • Archaeology of Difference : Negotiating Cross-Cultural Engagements in Oceania edited by RobinTorrence, and Anne Clarke (2000)
    Using case studies from Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and Micronesia, the contributors all share a concern with tracking the processes of contact between indigenous peoples and outsiders, primarily Europeans, across the varied physical and cultural landscapes of the region.
  • Cine-Ethnography by Jean Rouch with Steven Feld (2003)
    One of the most influential figures in documentary and ethnographic filmmaking, Jean Rouch has made more than one hundred films in West Africa and France. In such acclaimed works as Jaguar, The Lion Hunters, and Cocorico, Monsieur Poulet, Rouch has explored racism, colonialism, African modernity, religious ritual, and music.
  • Medicine as Culture : Illness, Disease and the Body in Western Societies by Deborah Lupton (2003)
    Provides a broad overview of the way medicine is experienced, perceived and socially constructed in western societies.
  • Kinship and Behavior in Primates by Bernard Chapais and Carol Berman (2004)
    A fundamental reference for students and professionals interested in primate behavior, ecology and evolution.

The trial ends 17 December, 2008. Please send your feedback to Library Electronic Resources Help.

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Landscapes of clearance : archaeological and anthropological perspectives, edited by Angèle Smith and Amy Gazin-Schwartz.

“This volume examines landscapes that have been cleared of inhabitants—for economic, environmental, or socio-political reasons, by choice or by force– and the social impacts of clearance on their populations. Using cases from five continents, and ranging from prehistoric, through colonial and post-colonial times, the contributors show landscapes as meaningful points of contestation when populations abandon them or are exiled from them. Acts of resistance and revitalization are also explored, demonstrating the social and political meaning of specific landscapes to individuals, groups, and nations, and how they help shape cultural identity and ideology.”
[Arizona University Press]

Call number: CC75 .L333 2008 in Koerner Library

Have you ever found the perfect book at Amazon and wanted to quickly check if it was available at UBC Library? Do you wish you could find a copy of that great journal article cited on a webpage, without having to go into the Library catalogue on another webpage?

LibX is a browser plugin that provides direct access to the UBC Library’s resources from a webpage in two ways.

(1): It creates a searchbox – right in your browser toolbar – that allows you to search the UBC Catalogue, Journals, Google Scholar or WorldCat simply by highlighting or dragging-and-dropping the text. The search box is placed directly below the address bar in your browser, like this:

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(2) LibX also places a tiny UBC icon
on pages displaying citation information, such as online book sellers, abstacts, or bibliographies. Clicking the icon takes you to related library offerings. For instance, on book pages at Amazon, the icon will link to the book’s entry in the UBC Library catalogue. The icon is displayed next to the book title, like this:

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The icon is displayed at Google, Yahoo! Search, the NY Times Book Review, and other pages.

For more information and to download the plugin, go to: http://www.library.ubc.ca/labs/libx/

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This just in – a new guide on how to do a (successful!) research project.

“Doing a Successful Research Project is a realistic, user-friendly guide on how to conduct a research project. … It offers an accessible, even-handed introduction to carrying out research methods for undergraduate and postgraduate students conducting a research project for the first time. The research process–from planning, through design and implementation, to completion–is described simply and succinctly, with the emphasis throughout on good preparation.”

Chapter 11, called “There is more to qualitative research than interviewing“, will be of particular interest to Anthropologists, with sections on Ethnography and the anthropological tradition, participant observation, and insider research.

Sound interesting? It’s in Koerner Library stacks at H62 .D2543 2007.

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