Using Methods in the Field

A Practical Introduction and Casebook
Herausgeber: De Munck, Victor C.; Sobo, Elisa J.

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Altamira Press
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. August 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 474g
• ISBN-13: 9780761989134
• ISBN-10: 0761989137
• Artikelnr.: 40618085

Autorenporträt

Edited by Victor C. de Munck and Elisa J. Sobo - Contributions by H. Russell Bernard; Gery Ryan; Thomas Weisner; Mark S. Fleisher; Jennifer A. Harrington; Juliana Flinn; Gun Roos; Allen Johnson; Robert C. Harman; Carole E. Hill; W. Penn Handwerker; Dougla

Inhaltsangabe

1 Foreword 2 The Forest of Methods 3 Participant Observation: A Thick
Explanation of Conflict in a Sri Lankan Village 4 Content Analysis of Words
in Brief Descriptions: How Fathers and Mothers Describe Their Children 5
Freelisting: Management at at Women's Federal Prison Camp 6 Freelists,
Ratings, Averages, and Frequencies: Why so Few Students Study Anthropology
7 Pile Sorting: "Kids Like Candy" 8 Guttman Scaling: An Analysis of
Matsienga Men's Manufacturing Skills 9 Triad Questionnaires: Old Age in
Karen and Maya Cultures 10 Decision Modeling: Its Use in Medical
Anthropology 11 Consensus Analysis: Sampling Frames for Valid,
Generalizable Research Findings 12 Consensus Analysis: Do Scottish Business
Advisors Agree on Models of Success? 13 Consensus Analysis: High Blood
Pressure in a Mexican Barrio 14 Visual Data: Collection, Analysis, and
Representation 15 MDS and QAP: How Do Children Rate Painful Experiences? 16
Afterword