Handbook of Methods in Cultural Anthropology - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0761991514 ISBN 13 : 9780761991519

Editeur : AltaMira Press, 1998

Synopsis

The Handbook of Methods in Cultural Anthropology establishes a benchmark for synthesizing anthropological research practices over the past 100 years. Avoiding 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 27 of the leaders in the discipline, these chapters provide the reader with comprehensive, contemporary descriptions 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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

H. Russell Bernard is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of Florida and Director of the Institute for Social Science Research at Arizona State University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois (1968) and has taught or done research at universities in the United States, Mexico, Greece, Japan, and Germany. Bernard's areas of research include technology and social change, language death, and social network analysis. Bernard has participated in summer courses, sponsored by the U.S. National Science Foundation, on research methods and research design. He is former editor of Human Organization and the American Anthropologist and is the current editor of Field Methods. His books include this text on Research Methods in Anthropology, as well as Social Research Methods (2d edition, Sage Publications 2012), Analyzing Qualitative Data: Systematic Approaches, with Gery Ryan and Amber Wutich (2d edition, Sage Publications 2016), and Native Ethnography, with Jesús Salinas Pedraza (Sage Publications 1989). Bernard was the 2003 recipient of the Franz Boas Award from the American Anthropological Association and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences. current c.v. at: http://nersp.osg.ufl.edu/~ufruss/cv.htm

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: AltaMira Press
• Date d'édition: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0761991514
• ISBN 13: 9780761991519
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 816
• Éditeur: Bernard H. Russell
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible