Social Anthropology

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Erik Hauke Tønnesen

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Oria is the common catalogue and search portal for Norwegian subject libraries. It provides an overall overview of which resources are available to you, either at your own institution or via interlibrary loans. You can manage your interlibrary loans yourself via Oria. You access Oria via the website of the University Library. You can search in Oria from the simple field that is clearly located on the start page, but this is a general search that gives many and not very concise hits. To make it easier to find what you are looking for, "Advanced Search" should be used. From this page, you have access to several functions with the possibility to specify the search considerably, as well as manage your own profile.

How to search in Oria

On the "Advanced search" page, there are several elements that help you find your documents. The three most important are where you search, what criteria you put in the search filters, and what type of material you are looking for.

Search Scope. Here, you choose whether you only want to search your own institution’s library or the entire catalogue. It is best to start the search in your own institution - the University Library in Bergen - as this will show what you actually have access to here and now. Should you not find what you are looking for, you can change this criterion to one of two options: Norwegian Academic Libraries or Search all sources. The best thing is to go straight to Search all sources. The material must be ordered anyway, and you potentially avoid having to apply 3 times.

Search filters. This is the starting point for the search. The “Any field” field can be extended via a drop-down menu. For most users, Any field, Title, Author and Subject will be the most relevant categories. You can also specify whether the result should only contain the relevant search terms, or whether you are looking for a specific phrase. As a third option, you can search for documents that start with the phrase you use in the search. This is most relevant for title searches. The search can be narrowed down by adding more criteria. The And/Or/Not function is useful for including and excluding matches. You can add as many search phrases as you need.

Material type, language and Publication/Creation date. Here you can specify what kind of material you are looking for (Book, article, journal, musical print (sheet music), video, printed books/e-books, etc.), language (either All languages ​​or one specific one), as well as a time or period when the document was published. You will also be able to select these categories in the right margin if you scroll down. Here you will easily be able to specify whether you want e-books or printed books, magazine articles, etc. By selecting the creation date, you can search for more recent documents, not-so-new documents and specific dates. In the latter case, you select intervals from one specific date to another. This interval can be from 1 day to longer periods.

After choosing the criteria and entering a search phrase, press Search. If you find what you are looking for, all is well. If not, the search must either be changed or made more specific.

Advanced search

Advanced search can be used to refine the search, ideally leading to fewer, but better hits. Both search category (All fields, Title, Author, Subject, etc), content text (contains, phrase, starts with) and Boolean search (AND/OR/NOT) will affect which hits you get. The search can further be limited by material type, language and time interval.

Title and author

Title and author are best used when you already know what you are looking for, and either want access to an e-book/article or want to find the shelf placement of a book. There is a big difference between searches that are made without this specification and those that are made with it.

Any Fields and Subject

The categories Any Fields and Subject are more suitable for finding new literature. In this context, it may be expedient to specify the search by using several search terms. In this case, Anthropology, Africa, Health care and Religion have been used as terms with Any Field as a filter, which gave fewer but more concrete hits for each step. If Subject is used rather than Any Field, you get even fewer hits.  It is nevertheless worth noting that this has to do with cataloguing, not the book's actual content. In this sense, there is less risk of missing titles by using All fields, but you must scroll through a larger number of matches. However, you can quickly review them if you click on the document and scroll down to the description/abstract.

• Available
• Material type
• Permalink

Sign in

To be able to access some user-related functions, you must log in. For students and staff, this takes place via the Feide Portal. As soon as you are logged in, you will see your name in the top right corner. If you have problems logging into Oria, you can find help here.

My account

Once you have logged in, you can access the function via a drop-down menu to easily go directly to the desired category or get an overview via My Account. Here you can see which loans, orders, fees or messages you have with and from the library. This overview gives you a good opportunity to keep up to date with submission dates, follow up on previous orders, see which fees you may have outstanding, and if the library has sent you any messages. You will also receive messages via the mail system, but any comments (one example is if you have been blocked) will also be readily available here. You can also access My Favourites via the tack icon in the top right corner.

Reservation and Interlibrary Loans

You will occasionally need books that have already been borrowed, or books and articles that are not in the collection of the University Library in Bergen. These can be reserved from UBB or ordered as interlibrary loans from other libraries, which you can do yourself via Oria. The order will be dispatched via your primary library. You must be logged in to Oria to be able to use these services. If you are not logged in to Oria, you will be asked to do so before the reservation/order goes ahead.

Reservation

If a book/all copies of a book have been lent, it will say "Lent out/Checked out from University Library in Bergen". By going to the post (i.e. going to the document itself), you will have the opportunity to reserve the book by pressing "Order Document/Request". You are then asked to choose which library branch you wish to collect the book from (this may have been pre-selected for you), after which you press "Order Document/Request" again. If everything goes well, you will receive a confirmation that the reservation has been completed, as well as information on where you are in the queue (if applicable). As most books have a loan period of 4 weeks, you can calculate how long it will take to receive the book.

Interlibrary loans

Interlibrary loans are most relevant if UiB does not own the document you need. As a rule, books we already own are not borrowed from other libraries, even if there is a long waiting list for our copies. If you believe there are compelling reasons for us to make an exception in your case, you can write a comment in the order form.

Interlibrary loans are fulfilled by librarians working at your primary library. The way you do this is to find the document in Oria. If UiB does not own the document, you will get the message "No records found". You must then expand the search to "Search all sources". The book that comes up will be marked "Not available at/Does not exist at the University Library in Bergen". After clicking on the book/article, press "Order loan/copy - Request loan/copy". You will then enter the order form, where all fields with an asterisk must be filled in. Though usually pre-completed, you may have to choose a pick-up location. Then press "Order document/Request". You will then receive a confirmation that your order has been completed.

The document does not exist in Oria

Sometimes you need books and/or articles that UiB does not own. These can be ordered in a separate form in Oria. In the form, the fields with an asterisk must be filled in. The more fields that are filled in correctly, the easier it will be for the owner's library to find what you need. Remember to choose the correct category Book or Article.

A selection of international social anthropological journals. In some cases we do not own the entire archive digitally, but will then usually have it on paper in the depot. 

• History and anthropology
• The journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
• American ethnologist
• Cultural Anthropology
• The Journal of peasant studies

Relevant Norwegian journals

• Norsk antropologisk tidsskrift
• Kula Kula: a magazine for students and staff at the department.

• Oria is the library catalogue of most research institutions in Norway, and will show both physical and digital holdings. 
• Web of Science - an index of a selection of the most important journals in most subjects.
• ArticleFirst (OCLC) - an index of about journals. 
• Google Scholar - a search engine limited to scientific and scholarly work.

Are you in doubt where and how to search? Contact your subject librarian for help.

• International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences - offers a source of social and behavioral sciences reference material that is broader and deeper than any other. 
• The SAGE Encyclopedia of Social Science Research Methods - a complementary encyclopaedia on quantitative and qualitative research methods.
• Encyclopedia of global warming & climate change - interdisciplinary encyclopaedia on global warming and climate change.
• The Routledge Encyclopedia of Social and Cultural Anthropology - a general encyclopaedia on central themes, ideas and historical background to the discipline. 
• Encyclopedia of Health and Behaviour - interdisciplinary encyclopaedia on health and behaviour.
• ProQuest Social Sciences - more or less everything. No, really.    

Using Oria, you will find the tab "Get it" where status and location is given for the document. E-books are usually found within the search result, and are accessible when you are connected to the UiB network.

Social anthropology is a subject that employs books and resources from different fields. Regarding books more specific to social anthropology, the book collection is organised by the Dewey classification system, where social anthropology is divided into the following main categories:

• 300  Social Science
  • 301 Sociology and anthropology
  • 302-307 Specific subjects within subjects within sociology and anthropology
    • 302 Social interaction
    • 303 Sociale processes
    • 304 Factors affecting social behavior
    • 305 Groups of people
    • 306 Culture and institutions
      • 306.09 Monographs. We have lined up these geographically rather than on language or ethnic group.

Handbooks are thematic collections of articles with thorough introductions to topics and a critical survey of the current state of scholarship by leading scholars. Here are a few examples.

• The Handbook of sociocultural anthropology (Bloomsbury) 
• Handbook of development economics (Elsevier) 
• The Palgrave Handbook of Urban Ethnography (Springer)
• The SAGE Handbook of Social Anthropology (SAGE Publications)
• Anthropology of religion: a handbook (Praeger) 
• Key Concepts in Ethnography - an introduction to important terms and key concepts in one of the most widely used methodologies in social science: Ethnography.

Useful resources on academic writing

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• ProQuest Dissertations & Theses - database covering most PhD thesis published in the USA. A good resource to quality assured lists of literature within your chosen field.
• A Student's Guide to Reading and Writing in Social Anthropology from Harvard University. It contains both general and more subject specific advice on writing anthropology.
• Project Planner (Sage) is an a to z-guide when writing papers and assignments. Concrete advice, suggestions on literature and check lists. For more general advice, check out Search and Write. Here you will find guidance on themes like searching, study skills and writing, as well as the use of sources and referencing.

You have several books on academic writing available in the library. See shelf signature 808.066 for titles like How to write your master's thesis or How to write and publish a scientific paper. 

Sage research methods online -  tool designed to help you create research projects and understand the methods behind them. More than 800 eBooks on methodology available. SRM can also be used to plan the research process from design to final analysis.

Search Oria for books and articles on methodology.

Working papers report research findings well in advance of formal publication. High-quality working papers are published by research organizations such as

• CMI - Chr. Michelsen Institute
• Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology

 as well as by academic departments and non-governmental organizations. 

International

• OECD iLibrary - Statistics from the European union member states and economic partners (OECD). 
• World Bank - publications and data on countries and regions.  
• International statistics (oversikt fra SCB) 
• The Global Health Observatory - WHO's international database of health.
• The World wealth and income database - national and international comparisons of distribution on income and wealth.  
• Cross-national Time-series data archive - about 200 variables from 200 nations.
• International Monetary Fund - publications and data on countries and regions

Europe

• Eurostat - Statistics from the European union member states and economic partners

Scandinavia

• Statistics Norway (SSB)
• Statistics Denmark 
• Statistics Sweden (SCB)
• Statistics Finland
• Statistics Iceland

Data

• The CIA World factbook - Yeah. What it looks like.

• Atekst -  includes the archives from some of the largest media concerns in Norway. In Norwegian only.
• Pressreader - 6000 international newspapers and magazines, most recent editions available.
• Proquest - International news archive from 2000 and onward.

Endnote is a reference manager tool that lets you collect, organise and manage different sources through the research process. Endnote is available for download on pc, mac and ipad. An online solution is also available. Get Endnote.

Introduction and help on Endnote: Windows or Mac.

Approved master thesis from UiB are in most cases available in BORA - Bergen Open Research Archive. In Oria you will also find master thesis from other institutions in Norway. 

All master students at the University of Bergen are welcome to make their thesis available in BORA. Read more on making your master's thesis available in Bora.

The library offers both general and tailored courses, and students and staff both are welcome to contact the subject librarian Erik Hauke Tønnesen for guidance in literature search. Contact subject librarian (below) for more information. The University Library arranges several courses that can be tailored to the need of the user. Feel free to take a look at the library's catalogue of courses. 

The department of Social Anthropology is not the only place where the subject is studies and researched. Other institutions also operates within the field.

CIH - Centre for International Health

Established in 1988, the Centre for International Health (CIH) at the University of Bergen (UiB) is an inter-Faculty Centre for research and training within the field of Global Health.

CIH works in partnerships with research institutions in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), and aims to:

• Coordinate and conduct high quality, relevant and innovative global health research
• Teach, supervise, and facilitate learning in global health
• Disseminate research and engage in policy discussions on pertinent global health issues

CMI - Chr. Michelsen Institute

CMI is an independent development research institute in Norway. With a staff of 70 people, they address issues that shape global developments and generate knowledge that can be used to fight poverty, advance human rights, and promote sustainable social development.