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The Comparative Analysis of Human Societies : Toward Common Standards for Data Collection and Reporting /

The Comparative Analysis of Human Societies : Toward Common Standards for Data Collection and Reporting / ed. by Emilio F. Moran. - 1 online resource (202 p.)

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- 1 Introduction: Norms for Ethnographic Reporting -- 2 Minimum Climate Data for Comparative Analysis in Agriculture -- 3 Soil Indices for Comparative Analysis of Agrarian Systems -- 4 The Social Organization of Agrarian Labor -- 5 Minimum Data Sets in the Study of Exchange and Distribution -- 6 Minimum Data Sets for the Description of Diet and Measurement of Food Intake and Nutritional Status -- 7 Micro-Ethnodemographic Techniques for Field Workers Studying Small Groups -- 8 Health Status Indicators for Rural Societies in Transition: Estimating Morbidity and Mortality Using National and Community Data -- 9 Agrarian Data Sets: The Comparativist' s View -- Index -- About the Contributors -- About the Book and Editor

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The authors propose criteria for fieldwork data collection and reporting that will facilitate a return to more comparative analysis in the social sciences.


Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.


In English.

9781685855932

10.1515/9781685855932 doi


SOCIAL SCIENCEĀ / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.