Research Methods in Anthropology

H. Russell Bernard is director of the Institute for Social Science Research at Arizona State University, professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of Florida, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He is co-editor of Handbook of Methods in Cultural Anthropology, Second Edition, author of Social Research Methods, and founder and editor of the journal Field Methods.

• PrefaceAbout the Author 1 Anthropology and the Social Sciences2 The Foundations of Social Research3 Preparing for Research4 Research Design: Experiments and Experimental Thinking5 Sampling I: The Basics6 Sampling II: Theory7 Sampling III: Nonprobability Samples and Choosing Informants 8 Interviewing I: Unstructured and Semistructured 9 Interviewing II: Questionnaires10 Interviewing III: Relational Data, Cultural Domains and Networks11 Scales and Scaling12 Participant Observation13 Field Notes and Database Management14 Direct and Indirect Observation15 Introduction to Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis16 Cognitive Anthropology I: Analyzing Relational Data, Cultural Domains and Networks 17 Cognitive Anthropology II: Decision Modeling, Taxonomies, and Componential Analysis18 Text Analysis I: Interpretive Analysis, Narrative Analysis, Performance Analysis, and Conversation Analysis19 Text Analysis II: Schema Analysis, Grounded Theory, Content Analysis, and Analytic Induction 20 Univariate Analysis21 Bivariate Analysis: Testing Relations22 Multivariate AnalysisContentsAppendix A: Table of Areas under a Normal CurveAppendix B: Student’s t Distribution Appendix C: Chi-Square Distribution TableAppendix D: F Table for the .05 Level of SignificanceAppendix E: Resources for FieldworkersReferencesAuthor IndexSubject Index