Art 158 (Cluff) Spring 24

Scholarly Sources:

• Written by experts in the field
• Published in academic journals, books, or conference proceedings
• Rigorously researched and peer-reviewed
• Includes citations and references to support claims
• Provides in-depth analysis and contributes to scholarly discourse

Popular Sources:

• Intended for a general audience
• Often found in magazines, newspapers, and websites
• May lack in-depth analysis and rigorous research
• Provides a broad overview or entertainment value

• Try multiple searches--typing in different keywords (e.g. "traditional arts", "Kente Cloth", "African textiles")

• Join multiple terms with "AND" & "OR" ("Visual symbols" AND Adinkra , "wood carvings" OR sculpture, "ancestral figures" OR deities)

• Use quotation marks around a phrase to do phrase searching (e.g. "Yoruba thorn carvings" ; "clay sculptures"; "totem poles")

• "Indian" (as well as Native American) is still used in the Library catalog and databases: "Indian art" is an acceptable search terms

Enter your search terms followed by site:.edu or site:.org to narrow down results 

For example:

• African "traditional art" museum site:.org
• Americas indigenous "traditional art" museum site:.edu
• Oceania 'traditional art" museum site:.org

Learn more tips and tricks for your Google searching!

Check out the library's MLA citation guide for examples, templates, videos, and more!