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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786623403321

Titolo

Handbook of methods in cultural anthropology / / edited by H. Russell Bernard and Clarence C. Gravlee

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland ; London, England, : Rowman & Littlefield, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-306-96270-6

0-7591-2072-2

Edizione

[Second edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (vii, 775 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

305.8001

Soggetti

Ethnology - Methodology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Introduction. On Method and Methods in Anthropology; Part I. PERSPECTIVES; CHAPTER 1. Epistemology: The Nature and Validation of Knowledge; CHAPTER 2. In Search of Meaningful Methods; CHAPTER 3. Research Design and Research Strategies; CHAPTER 4. Ethics; CHAPTER 5. Feminist Methods; CHAPTER 6. Participatory Methods and Community-Based Collaborations; Part II. ACQUIRING INFORMATION; CHAPTER 7. Sampling and Selecting Participants in Field Research; CHAPTER 8. Participant Observation; CHAPTER 9. Behavioral Observation; CHAPTER 10. Person-Centered Interviewing and Observation

CHAPTER 11. Structured Interviewing and Questionnaire ConstructionCHAPTER 12. Discourse-Centered Methods; CHAPTER 13. Visual Anthropology; CHAPTER 14. Ethnography of Online Cultures; CHAPTER 15. Social Survey Methods; Part III. INTERPRETING INFORMATION; CHAPTER 16. Reasoning with Numbers; CHAPTER 17. Text Analysis; CHAPTER 18. Cross-Cultural Research; CHAPTER 19. Geospatial Analysis; CHAPTER 20. Social Network Analysis; Part IV. APPLYING AND PRESENTING INFORMATION; CHAPTER 21. Theories and Methods in Applied Anthropology; CHAPTER 22. Presenting Anthropology to Diverse Audiences

CHAPTER 23. Public AnthropologyAuthor Index; Subject Index



Sommario/riassunto

<span><span>Draws on both</span><span style=""font-style:italic;""> </span><span>science </span><span style=""font-style:italic;"">and </span><span>humanism to explore the scope of contemporary anthropological fieldwork in practice. This thoroughly revised second edition also features new chapters addressing online ethnography; mixed methods and social survey research; and network and geospatial analysis.</span></span>