Welcome to your blog!

Greetings all,

My name is Marisol Ramos and I am your Subject & Liaison Librarian. As your librarian it is my job to support your research and teaching through the many services we offer at the library (both in the physical space and online).

It is my hope that I can use this blog to showcase our latest acquisition in your subject area and share relevant library news to keep you up today on the many great services we offer. I will try to post news and new acquisition at least once a month, although sometimes it could be more or less depending on the workload and amount of news.

So, what can your liaison librarian in Anthropology do for you?

• I offer specialized, one-on-one research assistance
• I can partner with you to conduct library instruction sessions for your courses
• I can create class guides to support your courses and make sure students have access to the right information and tools
• I can purchase materials for the Libraries’ collections in your subject area
• I can answer questions for you about the Libraries’ facilities and services (e.g. ILLiad, Course Reserves, etc.)

I recommend you to visit my Research Guide for Anthropology and Archeology at http://classguides.lib.uconn.edu/anthropology and consider adding this guide to your HuskyCT page. In addition if you will like to use my service in the Spring to do a library instruction for your undergrad or graduate students, feel free to contact me to reserve a classroom at marisol(dot)ramos@uconn(dot)edu.

Regarding library news, do you know about the several new services available from the Interlibrary Loan Department?

• Request Service, http://www.lib.uconn.edu/services/ill/RequestService.htm
  • A free service that allows you to request that circulating items from any UConn campus library (Storrs, Avery Point, Stamford, Torrington, Waterbury, or Greater Hartford) be pulled and held for pickup at the circulation desk of your choice.
• Scan on Demand (roll out last semester), http://www.lib.uconn.edu/services/ill/ScanonDemand.htm
  • A free service that allows you to request scanning and electronic delivery of chapters and articles from print resources owned by the Babbidge Library.

Also, for those of you that use census data, the library is offering a workshop on how to use New American FactFinder at the end of the month.

• Workshop: Locating Census 2010 Data using the NEW American FactFinder
  • Electronic Classroom 2 (Level 2): Wednesday, 11/30/11 at 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM

There are two spaces left, so hurry up and register today!

Finally, here is the list of recent books acquisitions at the Homer Babbidge Library.

Enjoy,

Marisol Ramos

Archeology

Battle-Baptiste, Whitney
2011 Black Feminist Archaeology. Walnut Creek, Calif.: Left Coast Press.

Cochrane, Ethan E., Andrew Gardner , and London Institute of Archaeology University College
2011 Evolutionary and Interpretive Archaeologies : A Dialogue. Walnut Creek, Calif.: Left Coast Press.

Schug, Gwen Robbins
2011 Bioarchaeology and Climate Change : A View from South Asian Prehistory. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.

Tourloukis, Vangelis,
2010 The Early and Middle Pleistocene Archaeological Record of Greece : Current Status and Future Prospects. [Leiden], the Netherlands: Leiden University Press.

Physical Anthropology

Black, Sue M., and Eilidh Ferguson
2011 Forensic Anthropology: 2000 to 2010. Boca Raton: CRC Press.

Renshaw, Layla
2011 Exhuming Loss : Memory, Materiality and Mass Graves of the Spanish Civil War. Walnut Creek, Calif.: Left Coast Press.

Methodology

Browner, C. H., and Carolyn Fishel Sargent
2011 Reproduction, Globalization, and the State: New Theoretical and Ethnographic Perspectives. Durham N.C.: Duke University Press.

Chilisa, Bagele
2012 Indigenous Research Methodologies. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: SAGE Publications.

Siegel, James T.
2011 Objects and Objections of Ethnography. 1st ed. New York: Fordham University Press.

Murphy, Edward
2011 Anthrohistory: Unsettling Knowledge, Questioning Discipline. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Hosokawa, Fumiko
2010 Building Trust: Doing Research to Understand Ethnic Communities. Lanham: Lexington Books.

Madison, D. Soyini
2012 Critical Ethnography : Method, Ethics, and Performance. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: SAGE.

Ntarangwi, Mwenda
2010 Reversed Gaze: An African Ethnography of American Anthropology. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.

Stanfield, John H.
2011 Rethinking Race and Ethnicity in Research Methods. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press.

Anthropology

Cultural/Historical

Anheier, Helmut K., and Yudhishthir Raj Isar
2011 Heritage, Memory & Identity. Thousand Oaks, Calif.; London: Sage Publications.

Carlson, Keith, and Albert Jules McHalsie
2010 The Power of Place, the Problem of Time: Aboriginal Identity and Historical Consciousness in the Cauldron of Colonialism. Toronto ; Buffalo: University of Toronto Press.

Eller, Jack David
2010 Cruel Creeds, Virtuous Violence: Religious Violence Across Culture and History. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books.

Saunders, Robert A.
2011 Ethnopolitics in Cyberspace: The Internet, Minority Nationalism, and the Web of Identity. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books.

Maddrell, Avril, and James D. Sidaway
2010 Deathscapes: Spaces for Death, Dying, Mourning and Remembrance. Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT: Ashgate.

Margry, P. J., and Cristina Sánchez Carretero
2011 Grassroots Memorials : The Politics of Memorializing Traumatic Death. New York: Berghahn Books.

Matsunami, Kōdō
2010 Funeral Customs of the World: A Comprehensive Guide to Practices and Traditions. 1st ed. Tochigi, Japan: Buddhist Searchlight Center.

Miller, Naomi Frances, Katherine M. Moore, and Kathleen Ryan
2011 Sustainable Lifeways : Cultural Persistence in an Ever-Changing Environment.

Schiffer, Michael B.
2011 Studying Technological Change : A Behavioral Approach. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press.

Wies, Jennifer R., and Hillary J. Haldane
2011 Anthropology at the Front Lines of Gender-Based Violence. Nashville, Tenn.: Vanderbilt University Press.

Environmental Anthropology

Kopnina, Helen, and Eleanor Shoreman-Ouimet
2011 Environmental Anthropology Today. London; New York: Routledge.

Ethnographies

Bridges, Khiara M.
2011 Reproducing Race: An Ethnography of Pregnancy as a Site of Racialization. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Burbank, Victoria Katherine
2011 An Ethnography of Stress: The Social Determinants of Health in Aboriginal Australia. 1st ed. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Native Americans/Mesoamerica

Astor-Aguilera, Miguel Angel
2010 The Maya World of Communicating Objects: Quadripartite Crosses, Trees, and Stones. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press.

Bleichmar, Daniela, and Peter C. Mancall
2011 Collecting Across Cultures: Material Exchanges in the Early Modern Atlantic World. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

Boulware, Tyler
2011 Deconstructing the Cherokee Nation: Town, Region, and Nation among Eighteenth-Century Cherokees. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.

Evans, Laura E.
2011 Power from Powerlessness: Tribal Governments, Institutional Niches, and American Federalism. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press.

Fitzsimmons, James L., Izumi Shimada, and Society for American Archaeology. Meeting
2011 Living with the Dead: Mortuary Ritual in Mesoamerica. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.

Fletcher, Matthew L. M.
2011 American Indian Tribal Law. Austin: Wolters Kluwer Law & Business.

Greene, Lance, and Mark R. Plane
2010 American Indians and the Market Economy, 1775-1850. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press.

Klopotek, Brian
2011 Recognition Odysseys: Indigeneity, Race, and Federal Tribal Recognition Policy in Three Louisiana Indian Communities. Durham N.C.: Duke University Press.

Prussing, Erica,
2011 White Man’s Water : The Politics of Sobriety in a Native American Community. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.

Seeman, Erik R.
2011 The Huron-Wendat Feast of the Dead: Indian-European Encounters in Early North America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Stone, Andrea Joyce, and Marc Zender
2011 Reading Maya Art: A Hieroglyphic Guide to Ancient Maya Painting and Sculpture. New York: Thames & Hudson.

Evolution, Cognition, Culture/Medical Anthropology

Bourke, Andrew F. G.
2011 Principles of Social Evolution. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press.

Christie, Deborah, and Sarah Juliet Lauro
2011 Better Off Dead : The Evolution of the Zombie as Post-Human. New York: Fordham University Press.

Fainzang, Sylvie, Hans Einar Hem, and Mette Bech Risør
2010 The Taste for Knowledge: Medical Anthropology Facing Medical Realities. Århus ; Oakville, CT: Aarhus University Press.

Lyons, Andrew P., Harriet D. Lyons, and Kath Weston
2011; 2011 Sexualities in Anthropology: A Reader. Vol. 15. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.

Maddrell, Avril, and James D. Sidaway
2010 Deathscapes: Spaces for Death, Dying, Mourning and Remembrance. Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT: Ashgate.

Six-Hohenbalken, Maria, and Nerina Weiss
2011 Violence Expressed: An Anthropological Approach. Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT: Ashgate.

Aaron, Jane, Henrice Altink, and Chris Weedon
2010 Gendering Border Studies. Cardiff: University of Wales Press.

Stevens, Phillips, and Denice J. Szafran
2011 Anthropology of Religion. London ; New York: Routled

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