ANTH 100 - News Articles (Aguilar Tessandori)

Selected Websites

  • Make sure the articles you select from these are news articles that are reporting on recent news or developments in anthropology (not longer feature magazine articles

Search Word Strategies

STEP 1: SEARCH WORDS

DATABASES: If desired, you can copy and paste the search strings (in bold below) into one of the library database tools:

  • Option #1
    • anthropol* AND (study OR article OR research OR researcher OR “recent findings”)
  • Option #2
    • [specific anthropology topic] AND anthropol* (study OR article OR research OR researcher OR “recent findings”)
      • example: hunter gatherers AND anthropol* (study OR article OR research OR researcher OR “recent findings”)
         

WEBSITES: you can try the search strings below, but they may not work depending on the search capabilities of the website.  You may have to try search words like: anthropology, anthropologist, anthropology culture, archaeology...etc.

STEP 2: LIMITERS
Your search tool may have different options for limiting results. 
  • In databases, usually look on the left-hand side for limiters such as:
    • full text
    • source type = newspaper
    • date range = last three years
STEP 3: PERSISTENT URL 
  • WEBSITEScopy the URL (web address) in the browser bar
  • DATABASES: DO NOT copy the URL (web address) in the browser bar.  Instead, look at the options to find a persistent URL link (often referred to as a "Permalink")