HANDBOOK
OF
METHODS
IN
CULTURAL
ANTHROPOLOGY
by
H. Russell Bernard,
Department of Anthropology,
University of Florida
An AltaMira Press Book
The HANDBOOK OF METHODS IN CULTURAL
ANTHROPOLOGY establishes a benchmark for synthesizing anthropological research
practices over the past 100 years.
Eschewing 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 28 of the leaders in the discipline, these chapters
provide the reader with comprehensive, contemporary descriptions accounts
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.
CONTENTS:
PART I PERSPECTIVE
1. Introduction: On Method &
Methods in Anthropology (H. Russell Bernard,
University of Florida)
2. Epistemology: The Nature and
Validation of Anthropological Knowledge
(Thomas Schweizer, University of
Cologne)
3. In Search of Meaningful Methods
(James Fernandez, University of
Chicago & Michael Herzfeld,
Harvard University)
4. Research Design & Research
Strategies (Jeffrey C. Johnson, East Carolina
University)
5 Ethics (Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban,
Rhode Island College)
6. Feminist Methods (Christine
Ward Gailey, Northeastern University)
7. Transnational Research (Ulf
Hannerz, University of Stockholm)
PART II: ACQUIRING INFORMATION
8. Participant-Observation (Kathleen
M. DeWalt & Billie R. DeWalt, University
of Pittsburgh)
9. Direct Systematic Observation
of Behavior (Allen Johnson, University of
California-Los. Angeles, &
Ross Sackett, University of Memphis)
10. Person-Centered Interviewing.
& Observation (Robert 1. Levy, Duke
University, & Douglas W. Hollan,
University of California-Los Angeles)
11. Structured Interviewing &
Questionnaire Construction (Susan C. Weller,
University of Texas, Medical Branch)
12. Discourse-Centered, Methods
(Laura Graham, University of Iowa, &
Brenda Farnell, University of Illinois)
14. Fieldwork in the Archives:
Methods & Sources in Historical
Anthropology (Caroline B. Brettell,
Southern Methodist University)
PART 111. INTERPRETING INFORMATION
I5. Reasoning with Numbers (W.
Penn Handwerker, University of
Connecticut & Stephen P. Borgatti,
Boston College)
16. Qualitative & Quantitative
Methods of Text Analysis (H. Russell Bernard,
University of Florida & Gery
Ryan, University of Missouri)
17. Cross-Cultural, Research (Carol
R. Ember & Melvin Ember, Human
Relations Area Files)
PART IV. APPLYING & PRESENTING
INFORMATION
18. Research Methods in, Applied
Anthropology (Jean J. Schensul, Inst. for Community Research, Hartford,
Connecticut & Robert T. Trotter, ll, Northern Arizona University)
19. Presenting Anthropology to
Diverse Audiences (Conrad,Phillip Kottak, University of Michigan),
About the Authors index
750 pages / Fall 1998
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