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WRI 208: Discovering New Pasts: Searching by Subject

Research Guide for Emma Ljung's writing seminar, Fall 2024

Class topics

AFRICAN AMERICANS
AFRICAN DIASPORA
APPROPRIATION (ART)
APPROPRIATION (ARTS)
ART THERAPY
BELLY DANCE
BELLY DANCERS
CHRISTIAN ART AND SYMBOLISM
COLLECTIVE MEMORY
COMPUTER SCIENCE
COMPUTER SCIENTISTS (see sub-headings this and above)
COSTUME (sub-divided by century and/or geography)
CULTURAL APPROPRIATION
CULTURAL PROPERTY ECONOMIC ASPECTS
DARK TOURISM
DOWNHILL SKIING
GERMANY CULTURAL POLICY
JAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE (SPACECRAFT)
HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS
NOSTALGIA
OKRA
PALIMPSESTS
PERU POPULATION
PERU SOCIAL CONDITIONS
PETRA (EXTINCT CITY)
PLASTER CASTS
POLITICAL POSTERS
POSTERS 20TH CENTURY
POSTERS UNITED STATES
QUECHUA (see sub-headings)
RELIGION IN ART
SHERPA (NEPALESE PEOPLE)
SKI (see sub-headings and below)
SKIING
SOUVENIRS (KEEPSAKES)
TOURISM (see various sub-headings)
TURKS GERMANY
VETERANS

 

Research Guides

Start here to determine how to get the lay of the land for a subject or discipline or topic. These guides will point you to relevant resources available to you at Princeton.

Subject searching using the Library's Catalog

In order to locate material on your topics at the Princeton University Library, you will have to use the library catalog

In the Catalog, conduct a Subject (browse) search for a specific topic or site [e.g. Bamiyan Site (Afghanistan) or Stonehenge (England)].

More general Subject Heading examples (most followed by various sub-headings; sub-divided geographically, by time period, etc.):

 ARCHAEOLOGY (followed by sub-headings A-Z)
   [other related terms: ANTIQUITIES; COASTAL ARCHAEOLOGY; EXCAVATIONS (ARCHAEOLOGY); HISTORIC SITES; SEVEN WONDERS OF THE WORLD; URBAN ARCHAEOLOGY, 
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY IN ARCHAEOLOGY, PHOTOGRAPHY IN ARCHAEOLOGY, UNDERWATER ARCHAEOLOGY, etc.]

 
x topic--ANTIQUITIES, or CONSERVATION AND RESTORATION  (like hotels--; historic sites--; or books--; etc.)


CULTURAL PROPERTY

GEOGRAPHY (followed by sub-headings A-Z) 
   [other related terms: ART AND GEOGRAPHY; ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL GEOGRAPHY; HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY;  HUMAN GEOGRAPHY; LOCAL GEOGRAPHY; MAPS; PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY; URBAN GEOGRAPHY; VOYAGES AND TRAVELS, etc.)

HERITAGE TOURISM

HISTORIC BUILDINGS
HISTORIC PRESERVATION


INTANGIBLE PROPERTY


LAND USE

LANDSCAPE . . . (followed by specific country or region)
LANDSCAPE ARCHAEOLOGY

LANDSCAPE ASSESSMENT

LANDSCAPE CHANGES

LANDSCAPE PROTECTION
 
LANDSCAPES

LANDSCAPES IN ART

LANDSCAPES IN LITERATURE

LANDSCAPES IN MOTION PICTURES

MONUMENTS
NEIGHBORHOODS (and sub-headings)
NOSTALGIA (and sub-headings)
SCENIC BYWAYS

WORLD HERITAGE AREAS

                                          etc. . . . .

 

Add'l. Subject Terms

Generated from Research Ideas PPT:

Subject (Browse):
​ARCHAEOLOGY IN MOTION PICTURES

GEOCACHING

FESTIVALS

CARNIVAL, CARNIVALS

ART THEFTS

WORLD WAR, 1939-1945 ART AND THE WAR

FOLKLORE

FAIRY TALES

FURNITURE

RUINS

FOSSILS

WALT DISNEY WORLD (FLA.)

HORSE SPORTS

DOG BREEDS

Also, try Advanced search: cultural property as subject and food as keyword, and
Advanced search: cultural property as subject and animal as keyword (some interesting results)