Quantification in cultural anthropology : an introduction to research design - Johnson, Allen W. (Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 1978)
Introduction. Indeterminacy in sociocultural research. The anthropological approach to research. Cultural anthropology and the domain of science. -- Cultural systems and ethnographic research design. The nature of systems. System orientations in cultural anthropology. Research design. -- Quantifying cultural data. Why quantify. Quantification and mathematics. Quantification and statistics. The History of quantitative approaches in cultural anthropology. -- The input-output orientation. Measuring input and output. Population, work, and health. -- The exchange orientation. Exchange relations. Society as a behavioral system . -- The culture-and-personality orientation. Culture-and-personality research. An intuitive approach. Моrе rigorous approaches. -- The maximization orientation. Measurement and maximization. Maximization relying principally on cash measures. Alternatives to cash. Maximization and markets. -- The cognitive/structural orientation. Psychological validity. Cognition and behavior. Crosss-cultural comparison. - Computer analysis of cultural systems. Computer simulation multivariate analysis.
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Keywords: ETNOLOGIA; ANTROPOLOGIA -- METODOS ESTADISTICOS; ANTROPOLOGIA CULTURAL -- METODOLOGIA; INVESTIGACION CULTURAL; INVESTIGACION SOCIAL