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Behavioral Anthropology: Toward an Integrated Science of Human Behavior

Autor Theodore D. Graves
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 20 feb 2004
Behavioral Anthropology is a unique introduction, combining an intellectual biography with an explanation of methodological principles. Each chapter deals with a specific methodological issue, such as research design, the role of theory, various strategies for measuring behavior, psychological or situational variables, samples and surveys, and both simple and complex methods of data analysis and interpretation. Graves includes a clear analysis of his distinctive approach to cross-cultural research. He explains how the behavioral anthropological approach gives focus to ethnographic study and illuminates the causes, correlates and consequences of within-group variation in behavior and in changes over time. For those interested in a behavioral and scientific approach to anthropology, this book will be a valuable reference and teaching tool.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780759105737
ISBN-10: 0759105731
Pagini: 426
Dimensiuni: 154 x 227 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.57 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția AltaMira Press
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Cuprins

Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 1: What is Behavioral Anthropology?
Chapter 3 2: Becoming a Behavioral Anthropologist
Chapter 4 3: Measuring Behavior
Chapter 5 4: Simple Data Analysis
Chapter 6 5: Research Design
Chapter 7 6: Measuring Psychological Variables
Chapter 8 7: Social Channeling Behavior
Chapter 9 8: Samples and Surveys
Chapter 10 9: Direct Observations of Behavior
Chapter 11 10: A Different Kind of Ethnography
Chapter 12 11: Interplay between Theory and Research
Chapter 13 12: Multivariate Analysis and Causal Inferences
Chapter 14 13: Research and Application
Chapter 15 14: Anthropology in the Twenty-First Century
Chapter 16 Appendix A: Navajo Urban Relocation Research Survey Questionnaire
Chapter 17 Appendix B: A Test of Need-Achievement for Young Male Navajo Indians, Scoring Manual

Recenzii

I certainly agree with Graves on the need for a return to some sort of positivistic, scientific attitude in cultural anthropology, emphasizing evidence-based, and if possible, quantitative findings, with a research design that permits replication.
For those of us in anthropology committed to doing research that is both theoretically explicit and methodologically rigorous, the publication of Ted Graves' two volumes is a welcome event. These volumes bring together in one place some of the most interesting and innovative research that has been done in anthropology in the latter half of the 20th century. Students today need to study carefully his approach to integrating ethnography and quantitative methods, just as we did when these articles first appeared. All of us will profit from his summary and the extension of his thoughts on the topic of behavioral anthropology, spanning thirty years of work.
As cultural anthropology emerges from an extended period of malaise-sterile debates over qualitative versus quantitative method; the nihilism of post-modernist indulgence-these volumes offer a fresh perspective for revitalized inquiry. Reflecting developments in the larger field of behavioral science, they illustrate how attention to behavior, as well as to context and meaning, can enrich understanding and, at the same time, bring scientific rigor to the discipline. Written as a personal-intellectual odyssey, the volumes are engaging and instructive; both faculty and graduate students, especially those seeking a new way forward and the methods with which to explore it, should find them attractive.
These two volumes are a must for students and teachers of research methods in cultural anthropology. From questionnaires to field experiments, and from simple percentage tables to multivariate models, Graves' body of work offers wonderful examples for teaching research methods in cultural anthropology.