Using Methods in the Field
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Using Methods in the Field

A Practical Introduction and Casebook

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eBook - ePub

Using Methods in the Field

A Practical Introduction and Casebook

About this book

Methods textbooks generally offer prescriptive advice on how to perform certain techniques, how to develop specific strategies, how to analyze your results. But, as all experienced ethnographers know, this fine-sounding advice rarely provides ample guidance in dealing with real people in real field settings. That is where this casebook differs. Selecting many key methods regularly used by anthropologists - participant observation, consensus analysis, simple surveys, scaling, freelisting and triads, networks, decision modeling- the editors commissioned scholars who have completed studies using these techniques to describe them in the context of real field work. Using cases from health, community politics, family relations, and child development (among others) in settings as diverse as an Arkansas college campus, a Mexican barrio, a Thai village, and a Scottish business, the student is given a clear understanding of the diversity of methods used by anthropologists and the complexities surrounding their use.

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Yes, you can access Using Methods in the Field by Victor C. de Munck,Elisa J. Sobo in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Anthropology. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright Page
  3. Table of Contents
  4. Foreword
  5. SECTION I - Foundations
  6. SECTION II - Generating and Analyzing Lists
  7. SECTION III - More Advanced Means to Model Culture
  8. Afterword - The Methods
  9. Appendix
  10. Glossary
  11. References
  12. About the Authors
  13. Subject Index
  14. Author Index