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Record Nr.

UNINA9910682542003321

Autore

Abell Peter

Titolo

Ethnographic Causality / / Peter Abell, Ofer Engel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Groningen : , : University of Groningen Press, , 2023

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (139 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

122

Soggetti

Causation

Ethnohistory

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

The book explores the problem of causal inference when a sufficient number of comparative cases cannot be found, which would permit the application of frequency based models formulated in terms of explanatory causal generalisations. The technique advocated develops the idea of Bayesian Narratives deriving evidence for singular causal connections from ethnographically elicited, indicative, counter factual and counter potential statements. Bayesian Narratives assemble multiple causal inferences into a directed a-cyclic di-graph. Comparative Narratives allow that similar digraphs may be compared.