Cultural Domain Analysis
Cultural domain analysis is the integrated framework in cognitive anthropology for discovering the content and structure of a cultural domain — a coherent set of related items such as illnesses, animals, kin terms, or emotions — as the members of a culture themselves organize it. It chains together elicitation methods (free listing, pile sorting, triad tests) and analytic methods (salience, multidimensional scaling, clustering, consensus analysis) to move from 'what items are in this domain?' to 'how are they organized and how widely is that organization shared?'
Source record
Citations copied verbatim from the method’s source record. No claim-level verification is inferred from them.
- Borgatti, S. P. (1994). Cultural domain analysis. Journal of Quantitative Anthropology, 4(4), 261–278. · URL
- Borgatti, S. P., & Halgin, D. S. (2011). Mapping culture: Freelists, pilesorting, triads and consensus analysis. In J. Schensul & M. LeCompte (Eds.), The Ethnographer's Toolkit, Vol. 3. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press. · URL
Curated claims
Claims persisted in the evidence ledger, each with its own assessment.
This view does not invent a claim assessment when the ledger has none.
Related methods
Generated from the method graph and shown as machine-suggested relations — no evidence claim is inferred.