Research methods in anthropology
Subtitle: qualitative and quantitative approaches
By: H. Russell Bernard.
Edition: 4th ed.
Publisher: AltaMira Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Lanham, MD
Language: eng
Number of pages: 803
Subjects: Ethnology -- Methodology.
Description: Research Methods in Anthropology is the standard textbook for methods classes in anthropology programs. Over the past dozen years, it has launched tens of thousands of students into the field with its combination of rigorous methodology, wry humor, commonsense advice, and numerous examples from actual field projects. Now the fourth edition of this classic textbook is ready, written in Russ Bernard's unmistakable conversational style. It contains all the useful methodological advice of previous editions and more: additional material on text analysis, an expanded section on sampling in field sett.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Anthropology and the social sciences; title: The foundations of social research; title: Preparing for research; title: The literature search; title: Research design : experiments and experimental thinking; title: Sampling; title: Sampling theory; title: Nonprobability sampling and choosing informants; title: Interviewing : unstructured and semistructured; title: Structured interviewing : questionnaires; title: Structured interviewing : cultural domain analysis; title: Scales and scaling; title: Participant observation; title: Field notes: how to take them, code them, manage them; title: Direct and indirect observation; title: Introduction to qualitative and quantitative analysis; title: Qualitative data analysis I : text analysis; title: Qualitative data analysis II : models and matrices; title: Univariate analysis; title: Bivariate analysis : testing relations; title: Multivariate analysis.