Using Methods in the Field: A Practical Introduction and CasebookVictor C. De Munck, Elisa Janine Sobo Rowman Altamira, 1998 - 288 Seiten 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. |
Inhalt
The Forest of Methods | 13 |
Participant Observation A Thick Explanation of Conflict in a Sri Lankan Village | 39 |
Generating and Analyzing Lists | 55 |
Content Analysis of Words in Brief Descriptions How Fathers and Mothers Describe Their Children | 57 |
Freelisting Management at a Womens Federal Prison Camp | 69 |
Freelists Ratings Averages and Frequencies Why So Few Students Study Anthropology | 85 |
Pile Sorting Kids Like Candy | 97 |
Guttman Scaling An Analysis of Matsigenka Mens Manufacturing Skills | 111 |
Consensus Analysis Do Scottish Business Advisers Agree on Models of Success? | 179 |
Consensus Analysis High Blood Pressure in a Mexican Barrio | 197 |
Visual Data Collection Analysis and Representation | 211 |
MDS and QAP How Do Children Rate Painful Experiences? | 229 |
The Methods | 249 |
Appendix | 253 |
Glossary | 255 |
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Triad Questionnaires Old Age in Karen and Maya Cultures | 121 |
More Advanced Means to Model Culture | 137 |
Decision Modeling Its Use in Medical Anthropology | 139 |
Consensus Analysis Sampling Frames for Valid Generalizable Research Findings | 165 |
About the Authors | 274 |
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