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Anthropology

This guide provides links to a variety of resources for Camosun students conducting anthropology-related research.

Finding books & e-books

The Camosun library contains a wide variety of physical and e-books on anthropology-related topics. Use the tools on this page to start your search. 

As you review your search results, you will notice that records for physical books contain a "call number" and a location. Most anthropology books are located on the second floor of the Lansdowne campus library.

Screen capture of a library book record showing the book's call number and campus location


Call numbers

A call number is an address which tells you where a resource is located in a library. All hard-copy resources in a library have a unique call number. Because books are arranged in call number order, you will find books on similar subjects located next to one another – this is a fantastic way to discover books related to your topic that you might not already know about.

Most books in the Camosun Library are arranged by the Library of Congress Classification System. The system uses twenty-one basic classes, each of which is identified by a letter of the alphabet. Most of these alphabetical classes are further divided into more specific subclasses, identified by two-letter, or occasionally, three-letter combinations.

Resources related to anthropology can be found in the following call number ranges. 

CC – Archaeology

GF – Human Ecology. Anthropogeography

GN – Anthropology

GN 49 – Physical Anthropology

GN 281 – Human Evolution

GN 300 – Ethnology, Social, and Cultural Anthropology

GN 502-517 – Psychological Anthropology

GN 700 – Prehistoric Archaeology

GR – Folklore       

GT – Manners and Customs

P – Philology. Linguistics

Camosun Single Search

E-books and more from Canada Commons

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The Canada Commons collection provides content from Canada's scholarly and independent publishers as well as public policy papers from think tanks and government sources. It features a variety of e-resources by Indigenous authors and information on Indigenous topics.

Canada Commons collection content is not always represented using the library's Single Search tool. You can access Canada Commons using the links below, or using the A-Z database list to search for the latest holdings in this collection of Canadian e-resources.