Includes bibliographical references (pages 711-769) and indexes.
Anthropology and the social sciences -- The foundations of social research -- Preparing for research -- The literature search -- Research design : experiments and experimental thinking -- Sampling -- Sampling theory -- Nonprobability sampling and choosing informants -- Interviewing : unstructured and semistructured -- Structured interviewing I : questionnaires -- Structured interviewing II : cultural domain analysis -- Scales and scaling -- Participant observation -- Field notes: how to take them, code them, manage them -- Direct and indirect observation -- Introduction to qualitative and quantitative analysis -- Qualitative data analysis I : text analysis -- Qualitative data analysis II : models and matrices -- Univariate analysis -- Bivariate analysis : testing relations -- Multivariate analysis -- Appendix A: Table of random numbers -- Appendix B: Table of areas under a normal curve -- Appendix C: Student's t distribution -- Appendix D: Chi-square distribution table -- Appendix E: F tables for the .05 and .01 levels of significance -- Appendix F: Resources for fieldworkers.
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'Research Methods in Anthropology' is the standard textbook for methods courses in anthropology. This fourth edition contains all the useful methodological advice of previous editions and more: additional material on text analysis, an expanded section on sampling in field settings, and dozens of new examples.