After you locate materials be sure they are appropriate for your topic. They should be ethnographic studies of cultural activity and the authors should use anthropological ideas and refer to other anthropological studies. The sources you choose should be closely related studies of the same topic and culture so that you can use them together. If culture is an always changing river, then you do not want to have to describe very different parts of it. You will end up like the three blind men and the elephant.
Books often present cultural data in a more clear and general discussion.
In order to make sure that you have found useful sources, I am requiring everyone to hand in a list of the articles or books they plan to use by Oct. 15. I will check this over and return it to you with comments. Be sure that you get my approval for your topic so that you are not stuck working on things that make little sense. I will also be happy to offer suggestions about materials at any time. American Anthropologist American Ethnologist Anthropologica.