Includes bibliographical references (p. 711-769) and indexes.
Contents:
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.
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