Please note that the links below will only work if you are authenticated to Art, Design & Architecture Collection through your organization.
Basic Search
You are studying the art of different cultures and regions of the world. African Art has piqued your interest, in particular, art of the Chokwe people.
By inserting the word chokwe into the Basic Search box, your results with reveal anything with the keyword of chokwe in the details of the results. Your organization may default to search anywhere including full text or anywhere except full text. Keep this in mind.
At this point you can check boxes related to narrowing by only Full text, Peer reviewed and/or Scholarly journals. Or you can wait for the results to determine if you want to narrow or not.
You will receive the entire list of results typically sorted by relevancy. (And it may be searching all fields or everything BUT full-text depending on your organization's default search settings).
From the list of results, you can sort by date (ascending or descending) as well as narrow by the following filters:
Advanced Search
You would like to find information on outsider art but that is not in a scholarly journal. While you could use a keyword search in the Basic Search box, a more refined, specific way to search is by using the Thesaurus and narrowing facets:
Publications
Use this page to locate publications covered in this database, search within those publications, and browse the available issues.
You want to discover which publications have Africa in the title.