Theodore D. Graves

Studies in Behavioral Anthropology

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Produktbeschreibung

This is a unique collection of essays illustrating the author's distinctive approach to cross-cultural research, and a valuable companion volume to Graves's Behavioral Anthropology. Graves and his co-authors offer fifteen research essays as supplemental readings in research methodology, to convey the challenge and excitement of conducting systematic behavioral science research cross-culturally. For those concerned with a behavioral, scientific approach to anthropology, this book will be a valuable reference and teaching tool.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 422
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. März 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 608g
• ISBN-13: 9780759105751
• ISBN-10: 0759105758
• Artikelnr.: 21908349

Autorenporträt

Theodore D. Graves is a retired professor of anthropology and social psychology who has conducted field research in the American southwest, Latin America, East Africa, and the South Pacific. He has twice won the Stirling Award in Culture and Personality of the American Anthropological Association.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction Part 2 PART I: The Tri-Ethnic Community Study
Chapter 3 1: Acculturation, Access, and Alchol in a Tri-Ethnic Community
Chapter 4 2: Psychological Acculturation in a Tri-Ethnic Community Part 5
PART II: The Navajo Urban Relocation Research Project Chapter 6 3:
Alternative Models for the Study of Urban Migration Chapter 7 4. Values,
Expectations and Relocation: The Navajo Migrant to Denver Chapter 8 5: The
Personal Adjustment of Navajo Indian Migrants to Denver, Colorado Chapter 9
6: Urban Indian Personality and the "Culture of Poverty" Chapter 10 7: The
Navajo Urban Migrant and his Psychological Situation Chapter 11 8:
Determinants of Urban Migrant Indian Wages Part 12 PART III: Medical Change
in Highland Guatemala Chapter 13 9: The Process of Medical Change in a
Highland Guatemalan Town Part 14 PART IV: Culture Change in Island
Polynesia Chapter 15 10: The Impact of Modernization on the Personality of
a Polynesian People Chapter 16 11: Stress and Health: Modernization in a
Traditional Polynesian Society Part 17 PART V: Polynesian Adaptation in New
Zealand Chapter 18 12: Kinship Ties and the Preferred Adaptive Strategies
of Urban Migrants Chapter 19 13: Patterns of Public Drinking ina
Multiethnic Society: A Systematic Observational Study Chapter 20 14:
Barroom Violence in a Multiethnic Society: A Critical Incidents Study
Chapter 21 15: Stress and Health among Polynesian Migrants to New Zealand
Chapter 22 References