Quantification in cultural anthropology : an introduction to research design /
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Stanford, California :
Stanford University Press,
©1978
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Table of Contents:
- 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.