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1 Copyright © 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. Chapter 4 Explanation and Evidence

2 Copyright © 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. Explanations An explanation is an answer to a why question. Theories are explanations of associations or Relationships

3 Copyright © 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. Why Theories Cannot Be Proved  Theories can never be proved with absolute certainty.

4 Copyright © 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. Generating Theories Two methods have helped anthropologists produce explanations of cultural phenomena:  Single-case analysis  Comparative study

5 Copyright © 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. Evidence: Testing Explanations  Operationalization  Sampling  Statistical Evaluation

6 Copyright © 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. Evidence: Testing Explanations Operationalization  In order to ensure research is done accurately, a researcher typically provides an operational definition of each concept/variable.  How will the variable be measured?

7 Copyright © 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. Types of Research in Cultural Anthropology  Ethnography  Within-Culture Comparisons  Regional Controlled Comparisons  Cross-Cultural Research  Historical Research

8 Copyright © 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. Types of Research in Cultural Anthropology Ethnography  After doing fieldwork, an anthropologist may prepare an ethnography, or a description and analysis of a single society.  Ethics in Fieldwork

9 Copyright © 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. Types of Research in Cultural Anthropology Within-Culture Comparisons Testing a theory within one society comparing individuals, families, households, communities, or districts, for example.

10 Copyright © 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. Types of Research in Cultural Anthropology Regional Controlled Comparisons An ethnographic comparison between societies in the same or similar region.

11 Copyright © 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. Types of Research in Cultural Anthropology Cross-Cultural Research  Worldwide comparisons between societies having and those lacking a particular characteristic.

12 Copyright © 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. Types of Research in Cultural Anthropology Ethnohistory consists of studies based on descriptive materials about a single society at more than one point in time.

13 Copyright © 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. Types of Research in Cultural Anthropology Historical Research (ethnohistory) consists of studies based on descriptive materials about a single society at more than one point in time.


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