Quantification in Cultural Anthropology: An Introduction to Research Design

Popular passagesPage 19 - No natural history can be interpreted in the absence of at least some implicit body of intertwined theoretical and methodological belief that permits selection, evaluation, and criticism.Appears in 58 books from 1934-2007Page 97 - If permitted to develop unchecked, the tendency to write ethnographies in accord with the emic rules of behavior will result in an unintentional parody of the human condition. Applied to our own culture it would conjure up a way of life in which men tip their hats to ladies; youths defer to old people in public conveyances; unwed mothers are a rarity; citizens go to the aid of law enforcement officers; chewing gum is never stuck under tables and never dropped on the sidewalk; television repairmen...Appears in 13 books from 1968-1992Page 62 - There persists, however, throughout the whole period the fixed scientific cosmology which presupposes the ultimate fact of an irreducible brute matter, or material, spread throughout space in a flux of configurations. In itself such a material is senseless, valueless, purposeless. It just does what it does do, following a fixed routine imposed by external relations which do not spring from the nature of its being.Appears in 72 books from 1909-2006Page 160 - Goodenough's (l964, 36-7) account of the 'new ethnography' in anthropology comes very close: l34 a society's culture consists of whatever it is one has to know or believe in order to operate in a manner acceptable to its members...Appears in 233 books from 1932-2008