A. L. Epstein
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advanced social research methodologies
Area Iii
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Average Income
Brother Brother Relationships
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Cognatic Stocks
Completed Marriages
Cross-cousin Marriage
Destructive Magic
Divorce Frequencies
Divorce Ratios
Elizabeth Colson
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ethnographic methods
Extant Marriages
extended-case method
Father's Father's Father
Father’s Father’s Father
fieldwork techniques
Forensic Order
Full Siblings
Genealogical Narrative
J. A. Barnes
J. Clyde Mitchell
J. van Velsen
kinship systems study
M. G. Marwick
Marriages Ending
Matrilateral Kinship
Matrilateral Parallel Cousins
Max Gluckman
Mother's Brother's Daughter
Mother’s Brother’s Daughter
Non-productive Property
paternal
Plateau Tonga
quantitative analysis anthropology
Quantitative Material
Rhodes Livingstone Institute
ritual and legal data collection
T. S. Epstein
V. W. Turner
Van Velsen
Yao Village
Younger Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781412845878
- Weight: 362g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 30 Jan 2012
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In social anthropology, as in other branches of science, there is a close relationship between research methods and theoretical problems. Advancing theory and shifts in orientation go hand in hand with the development of techniques and mutually influence one another. If the development of modern social anthropology owes much to its established tradition of fieldwork, it is also clear that the procedures that anthropological fieldwork should follow in the laboratory can never be prescribed in absolute terms nor become wholly standardized.Yet as anthropological analysis is refined, it becomes increasingly important that students in the field be aware of the need to collect basic kinds of data, and know how to set about doing so. In this volume, anthropologists who have worked closely together for many years at the Rhodes- Livingstone Institute for Social Research, Lusaka, and/or in the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Manchester, discuss within a common framework modern fieldwork methods as tools for examining a number of problems of current anthropological interest.Elizabeth Colson, J. Clyde Mitchell, and J. A. Barnes stress aspects of the role of quantification in social anthropology and indicate a range of problems that can be illuminated by the use of quantitative techniques. Equal importance is attached by all contributors to the collection and analysis of detailed case material, a topic explored in J. van Velsen's essay. A. L. and T. S. Epstein, V. W. Turner, and M. G. Marwick consider the kinds of data relevant to anthropological discussion in the fields of economics, law, ritual, and witchcraft, and the methods by which such material may be collected. The volume is introduced by Max Gluckman, former director of the Rhodes-Livingstone Institute and former head of the department of social anthropology and sociology, University of Manchester.
