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Anthropology

46 methods
26 method families

MOST CONNECTED IN ANTHROPOLOGY

Free Listing
17 connections in this field
Cultural Domain Analysis
14 connections in this field
Successive Pile Sorting
10 connections in this field
Triad Test
8 connections in this field
Cultural Consensus Model
7 connections in this field
Pile Sorting
6 connections in this field
Anthropological Household Survey
5 connections in this field
Behavioral Observation Coding
5 connections in this field
Cultural Models Analysis
5 connections in this field
Ethnographic Interview
5 connections in this field

Showing 46 of 46 methods

Cultural domain analysis11 methods
Cultural Consensus ModelCultural Salience AnalysisEthnoscience TaxonomyFree ListingPaired Comparison MethodPile SortingRank-Order ElicitationSentence-Frame Substitution TaskSmith's Salience Index (S)Successive Pile SortingTriad Test
Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA)5 methods
Institutional Venn DiagramMatrix Scoring and RankingSeasonal CalendarTransect WalkWealth Ranking
Ethnoscience / cognitive ethnography3 methods
Componential Analysis (Ethnographic)Folk Taxonomy AnalysisSpradley Domain Analysis
Field & applied inquiry3 methods
Anthropological Household SurveyParticipatory MappingTime Allocation Study
Behavioral observation sampling2 methods
Behavioral Observation CodingSpot Observation Sampling
Ethnographic interviewing2 methods
Key-Informant InterviewLife-History Interview
Applied and field methods1 method
Rapid Ethnographic Assessment
Cognitive and economic anthropology1 method
Ethnographic Decision Modeling
Cognitive and interpretive analysis1 method
Cultural Models Analysis
Cognitive anthropology1 method
Cultural Domain Analysis
Componential and formal semantic analysis1 method
Residue Analysis (Kinship Terminology)
Document and media analysis1 method
Ethnographic Content Analysis
Embodied and sensory methods1 method
Sensory Ethnography
Ethnographic fieldwork design1 method
Multi-Sited Ethnography
Formal kinship analysis1 method
Kinship Network Analysis
Formal kinship and historical network analysis1 method
Social Network Genealogy
Kinship and social organization1 method
Genealogical Method
Material and object-centered methods1 method
Material Culture Analysis
Mixed-methods / spatial qualitative analysis1 method
Grounded Visualization
Participatory and applied development methods1 method
Participatory Rural Appraisal
Participatory and community-based methods1 method
Photovoice
Participatory network mapping1 method
Net-Map (Influence Network Mapping)
Qualitative analysis1 method
Body Mapping
Qualitative interviewing1 method
Ethnographic Interview
Spatial and observational ethnography1 method
Ethnographic Mapping
Visual methods1 method
Visual Anthropology

FIELD AT A GLANCE

Methods46
Method families26
Connected methods10+

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