Mentoring Event Materials - 2023 AAA Meeting

 

Ethnographic Field and Data Analysis Methods: One-on-one Mentoring

• Organizers: Elizabeth Bingham Thomas and Douglas Hume
• Time and Location: Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Room 716A, 8-10:00 PM, Friday November 17
  

Abstract: Anthropology students and professionals are expected to learn ethnographic research and analytical methods and may not have an expert available with whom to consult. SAS therefore invites students and professionals to engage directly with experts about their research and analysis questions. Experts will be available to discuss research design and both qualitative and quantitative data collection and analysis. In addition, experts will be available to discuss dissemination and career paths. Before the meetings, each expert will post materials within the context of a case study on the SAS website (https://www.societyforanthropologicalsciences.org/p/mentoring-event-materials.html). Any and all conference attendees, especially undergraduate and graduate students, are welcome at any time during this informal mentoring session.

• Cultural Consonance – William W. Dressler
  • Culture and Individual Adaptation: Research Report I – Brazil, by William W. Dressler [PDF]
  • Measuring Cultural Consonance: Examples with Special Reference to Measurement Theory in Anthropology, by William W. Dressler, et al. [PDF]
  • Cultural Consonance in Life Goals and Depressive Symptoms in Urban Brazil, by William W. Dressler [PDF]

• eHRAF Coding – Ian Skoggard
  • https://hraf.yale.edu/ccc/
  • https://hraf.yale.edu/cross-cultural-research/basic-guide-to-cross-cultural-research/
  • https://hraf.yale.edu/resources/researchers/cross-cultural-research-overview/
  • https://ehrafworldcultures.yale.edu/webhelp/#Get_Started/gs_acronyms_c.html

• Free-listing & Pile-sorting – Susan C. Weller
  • Defining Domain and Free Listing, by Susan C. Weller and A. Kimball Romney [PDF]
  • Supplementary Interviewing Techniques to Maximize Output in Free Listing Tasks, by Devon D. Brewer [PDF]
  • Open-ended Interview Questions and Saturation, by Susan C. Weller, Ben Vickers, H. Russell Bernard, Alyssa M. Blackburn, Stephen Borgatti, Clarence C. Gravlee, and Jeffrey C. Johnson [PDF]
  • Structured Interviewing and Questionnaire Construction, by Susan C. Weller [PDF]

• Lexical Analysis/Corpus-Driven Ethnography – Stephen Chrisomalis
  • Corpus-Based Lexical Analysis by Stephen Chrisomalis [PPTX]
  • Greatness in the Math Corps family: integrating ethnographic, corpus, and cognitive approaches to a cultural model by Stephen Chrisomalis (Preprint PDF)

• Social Network Analysis – Stephen M. Lyon
  • Social Network Analysis: Computational Methods for Social Sciences, by Stephen M. Lyon [PDF]

• Survey Methods & Interviewing – Kathryn S. Oths
• Materials Social Survey Methods, by William W. Dressler & Kathryn S. Oths [PDF]
• Reflections on Teaching SCRM: Survey Research Methods in Anthropology, by William W. Dressler & Kathryn S. Oths [PDF]
• All’s Well That Ends Well: How Alabama Farmers Marketers ‘Last Stand’ against Modernity was Finally Resolved, Kathryn S. Othes, et al. [PDF]
• Mentoring Event Instructional Slides [PPT]
• Digital Data Management for Cultural Anthropology Tutorial, by Kathryn S. Oths [PDF]
• AAA Initiative: Digital Data Management for a New Generation [Website]

• Teaching Ethnographic Field Methods – Douglas W. Hume 
• Ethnographic Field School in Belize Web Site
• Syllabus Draft
• Schedule Draft

• T.B.A. – Toni Copeland