Using Methods in the Field

A Practical Introduction and Casebook

Häftad, Engelska, 1998

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum1998-08-24
Mått169 x 228 x 22 mm
Vikt422 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor288
FörlagAltaMira Press
ISBN9780761989134

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1 Foreword2 The Forest of Methods3 Participant Observation: A Thick Explanation of Conflict in a Sri Lankan Village4 Content Analysis of Words in Brief Descriptions: How Fathers and Mothers Describe Their Children5 Freelisting: Management at at Women's Federal Prison Camp6 Freelists, Ratings, Averages, and Frequencies: Why so Few Students Study Anthropology7 Pile Sorting: "Kids Like Candy"8 Guttman Scaling: An Analysis of Matsienga Men's Manufacturing Skills9 Triad Questionnaires: Old Age in Karen and Maya Cultures10 Decision Modeling: Its Use in Medical Anthropology11 Consensus Analysis: Sampling Frames for Valid, Generalizable Research Findings12 Consensus Analysis: Do Scottish Business Advisors Agree on Models of Success?13 Consensus Analysis: High Blood Pressure in a Mexican Barrio14 Visual Data: Collection, Analysis, and Representation15 MDS and QAP: How Do Children Rate Painful Experiences?16 Afterword

The text is eminently practical... The cultural anthropologists run into a dizzying variety of problems and tackle them with diverse approaches. Those who study the relationship between language and culture equally need a combination of flexibility and tried and true methods of dealing with both people and data.The 20 experts here give the benefit of their hands-on research experience, whether with problems of healthcare providers, or prison populations, Sri Lankan nationalization and modernization conflicts.