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Synopsis
Cross-cultural researchers describe, compare, and test patterns that occur in different, discrete cultures. In this brief textbook, two of the world's leading cross-cultural researchers describe both the logic of and process of doing research in this tradition. The Embers take the reader through a study, from developing a hypothesis through sampling, measuring, coding, and analysis. They point to the difficulties in developing reliable statements about cross-cultural patterns and how to minimize those difficulties. The authors also offer advice on how to use the Human Relations Area Files a worldwide database of ethnographic information to conduct cross-cultural studies. This represents the perfect brief introduction to method for students in cross-cultural anthropology and other social science disciplines. A Choice Outstanding Academic Book
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Review
The book's merits are easy to catalog: It is a detailed and comprehensive review of some important aspects of comparative studies in anthropology; it has been written from a well-informed ethnographic and mathematical background; and there is no inclination to gloss over the uncertainties and shortcomings of the comparative approach. Well-organized, clear, and concise with a number of appropriate examples illustrating the major points, this book deserves a wide reading simply because the cross-cultural comparison is the only method we have for attacking an important class of anthropological problems.--T.A. Foor, (University of Montana) "CHOICE "
About the Author
Carol R. Ember is executive director of the Human Relations Area Files at Yale University. Melvin Ember is president of the Human Relations Area Files at Yale University. They have co-authored numerous books, including the Choice Outstanding Academic Title award-winning first edition of Cross-Cultural Research Methods and the textbooks Anthropology and Cultural Anthropology, both in their twelfth edition.
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- PublisherRowman & Littlefield
- Publication date2014
- ISBN 10 0585382972
- ISBN 13 9780585382975
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages173
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