Download or read book The Formalization of Anthropological Research written by Jerry Dean Hofmann and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Anthropological Research written by Pertti J. Pelto and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1978-02-16 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive text on research methods in social and cultural anthropology, covering tools, counting and sampling, fieldwork and research design. Originally published by Harper & Row, 1970.
Download or read book Doing Anthropological Research written by Natalie Konopinski and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-08-15 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Doing Anthropological Research provides a practical toolkit for carrying out research. It works through the process chapter by chapter, from the planning and proposal stage to methodologies, secondary research, ethnographic fieldwork, ethical concerns, and writing strategies. Case study examples are provided throughout to illustrate the particular issues and dilemmas that may be encountered. This handy guide will be invaluable to upper-level undergraduate and postgraduate students who are studying or intending to use anthropological methods in their research.
Download or read book Children and Anthropological Research written by Barbara Butler and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first time that we, the editors of this volume, met, a chance remark by one of us, newly returned from fieldwork in Fiji, quickly led to an animated discussion of our experiences doing anthropological research with children. Following that occasion, we began to seek each other out in order to continue such conversations, because we had found no other opportunity to discuss these significant events. We knew our experiences were rich sources of cross-cultural data and stimuli to rethinking anthro pological theory and methods. A cursory review of the literature on fieldwork revealed, to our surprise, that fieldworker's experiences with children were rarely and only briefly mentioned (Hostetler and Huntington, 1970, are an early exception). In order to learn more about research that included the ethnographers' children, we organized a conference on the topic at Michigan State University on May 1, 1982. This volume includes papers from that conference, as well as insights and ideas from the formal and informal discussions among the conference participants and audience. This volume, like the conference which preceded it, is intended to be the effects of accompanying children on anthropological an exploration of field research and on the effects of fieldwork on the children themselves. Additionally, we see this book as part of an anthropological inquiry into research as a cultural process, by which is meant the effects of the researchers' cultural identity--class, gender, age, ethnicity, and other characteristics--on fieldwork.
Download or read book Anthropological Research written by John J. Poggie Jr. and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1992-07-01 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors of this book share a common assumption about anthropology—that replicable and systematic procedures of data collection and analysis are essential requirements for building useful cultural theory. They view cultural theory as both an aid to understanding sociocultural phenomena, and as an aid in changing existing social conditions. This book focuses on five specific themes representing a set of principles for conducting research: the importance of intra-cultural variation; the blending of qualitative and quantitative approaches; the search for micro/macro levels of generalization; the innovative matching of methodology to research problems; and the practical or applied merit of systematically generated and evaluated theory. It contributes to scientific anthropology and shows that the credibility and utility of anthropological research in policy matters is enhanced by scientific research methodology.
Download or read book Research Methods in Anthropology written by H. Russell Bernard and published by Rowman Altamira. This book was released on 2011-04-16 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research Methods in Anthropology is the standard textbook for methods classes in anthropology. Written in Russ BernardOs unmistakable conversational style, his guide has launched tens of thousands of students into the fieldwork enterprise with a combination of rigorous methodology, wry humor, and commonsense advice. Whether you are coming from a scientific, interpretive, or applied anthropological tradition, you will learn field methods from the best guide in both qualitative and quantitative methods.
Download or read book Doing Field Projects written by John Forrest and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2022-03-25 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A must-read guide to conducting qualitative field research in the social sciences Doing Field Projects: Methods and Practice for Social and Anthropological Research delivers a thorough and insightful introduction to qualitative field methods in the social sciences. Ideal for undergraduate students just starting out in fields like anthropology, sociology, and related subjects, the book offers readers twenty instructive projects. Each project is well-suited as a standalone exercise, or several may be combined as a series of field work assignments. From interview techniques to participant observation, kinship analysis, spatial mapping, photo and video documentation, and auto-ethnography, Doing Field Projects covers each critical area of qualitative fieldwork students are likely to encounter. Every project also contains discussions of how to execute the research, avoid common problems and mistakes, and present the uncovered data in several different formats. This important resource also offers students: A thorough introduction to fieldwork, including the history of fieldwork methods, the shift from colonial to post-colonial anthropology, and discussion of fieldwork vs. ethnography Comprehensive explorations of getting started with fieldwork, including necessary equipment, research design, data presentation, and journal keeping Practical discussions of the ethics of fieldwork, including the "Do No Harm" principle, institutional approval, openness, and anonymity In-depth examinations of autoethnography, proxemics, mapping, recorded interviews, participant observation, and engaged anthropology The opportunity to conduct a complete fieldwork course using digital and online resources only Supporting learning material for each chapter, including a brief outline of Learning Goals and a paragraph summarizing the contents Doing Field Projects: Methods and Practice for Social and Anthropological Research is the perfect guide for undergraduate students taking courses and programs in which qualitative field methods are central to the field, like anthropology and sociology.
Download or read book Research Design in Anthropology Paradigms and Pragmatics in the Testing of Hypotheses written by John A. Brim and published by New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston. This book was released on 1974 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Explorations in Mathematical Anthropology written by Paul Kay and published by Mit Press. This book was released on 1974-10-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an excellent sampling of mathematical, statistical, and computer techniques used by anthropologists to tackle a wide range of substantive problems.The scope of topics considered in this volume is so wide and various as to be an impressive indication of a strong future for mathematics in anthropology. Briefly, such topics include interinformant reliability, cultural distinctiveness in conceptual areas, cultural systems as mental systems of identification, classification, evaluation and action, diffusional versus functional explanations, general interaction theory, kinship terminologies as logical systems, folklore, cultural systems as systems of knowledge and belief, systemic culture patterns, endogamy/exogamy, genealogy, relation of social structure to relational terminology, cultural continuity, and cultural change.
Download or read book Northwest Anthropological Research Notes written by Kathryn Bernick and published by Northwest Anthropology. This book was released on with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FEMINIST APPROACHES TO PACIFIC NORTHWEST ARCHAEOLOGY Kathryn Bernick, Volume Editor Introduction: Feminist Approaches to Pacific Northwest Archaeology - Kathryn Bernick A Working Woman Needs a Good Toolkit - Sylvia Albright The Cutting Edge: A New Look at Microcore Technology - Sheila Greaves Feminist Methodologies in Archaeology: Implications for the Northern Northwest Coast - Sandra Zacharias The Search for Gender in Early Northwest Coast Prehistory - Heather Pratt A Post-Androcentric View of Fraser Delta Archaeology - Kathryn Bernick Engendering Archaeology in the Pacific Northwest - Madonna L. Moss
Download or read book Fieldwork Is Not What It Used to Be written by James D. Faubion and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2011-10-15 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past two decades anthropologists have been challenged to rethink the nature of ethnographic research, the meaning of fieldwork, and the role of ethnographers. Ethnographic fieldwork has cultural, social, and political ramifications that have been much discussed and acted upon, but the training of ethnographers still follows a very traditional pattern; this volume engages and takes its point of departure in the experiences of ethnographers-in-the-making that encourage alternative models for professional training in fieldwork and its intellectual contexts. The work done by contributors to Fieldwork Is Not What It Used to Be articulates, at the strategic point of career-making research, features of this transformation in progress. Setting aside traditional anxieties about ethnographic authority, the authors revisit fieldwork with fresh initiative. In search of better understandings of the contemporary research process itself, they assess the current terms of the engagement of fieldworkers with their subjects, address the constructive, open-ended forms by which the conclusions of fieldwork might take shape, and offer an accurate and useful description of what it means to become—and to be—an anthropologist today.
Download or read book Anthropological Research written by Pertti J. Pelto and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Northwest Anthropological Research Notes written by Deward E. Walker, Jr. and published by Northwest Anthropology. This book was released on with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ceremonial Integration in the Plateau of Northwestern North America, Bill Brunton Political Conflict on the Colville Reservation, John Alan Ross Deprivation, Revitalization, and the Development of the Shaker Religion, John L. Schultz Anthropological Papers Presented at the Northwest Scientific Association Meetings, 1924–1968, Roderick Sprague Papers Presented at the First Twenty Annual Meetings of the Northwest Anthropological Conference, 1948–1967, Roderick Sprague Abstracts of Papers Presented at the 21st Annual Meeting of the Northwest Anthropological Conference, Portland, 1968
Download or read book Anthropology Put to Work written by Les Field and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-05-19 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do anthropologists work today and how will they work in future? While some anthropologists have recently called for a new "public" or "engaged" anthropology, profound changes have already occurred, leading to new kinds of work for a large number of anthropologists. The image of anthropologists "reaching out" from protected academic positions to a vaguely defined "public" is out of touch with the working conditions of these anthropologists, especially those junior and untenured. The papers in this volume show that anthropology is put to work in diverse ways today. They indicate that the new conditions of anthropological work require significant departures from canonical principles of cultural anthropology, such as replacing ethnographic rapport with multiple forms of collaboration. This volume's goal is to help graduate students and early-career scholars accept these changes without feeling something essential to anthropology has been lost. There really is no other choice for most young anthropologists.
Download or read book Handbook of Methods in Cultural Anthropology written by Harvey Russell Bernard and published by Altamira Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A newer edition of this book is available. See the new edition's page at the following address: https: //rowman.com/ISBN/9780759120709 The Handbook of Methods in Cultural Anthropology establishes a benchmark for synthesizing anthropological research practices over the past 100 years. Avoiding the divisive debates over science and humanism, the authors contributing to this important volume draw upon both traditions to define and describe anthropological fieldwork in practice. Authored by 27 of the leaders in the discipline, these chapters provide the reader with comprehensive, contemporary descriptions of the methods that anthropologists use, the logic behind them, and the complex problems that field research with humans entails. In addition to traditional participant observation and related strategies, the Handbook examines historical methods, surveys, linguistic methods, comparative research, social intervention, and visual anthropology as ways in which anthropologists seek to understand the world. Related questions of research strategies and designs, ethics, epistemology, and presentation of anthropological results round out the volume. This is an essential reference tool for all academic, professional and graduate-level anthropologists, and will also be of inestimable value to other social researchers who use field methods in their work.
Download or read book Research Methods in Anthropology written by Harvey Russell Bernard and published by Sage Publications (CA). This book was released on 1994 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Study of Play written by Association for the Anthropological Study of Play. Meeting and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spieltheorie.
