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Nicola Tannenbaum is a Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA. |
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by Nicola Tannenbaum,
Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA.
Part II: Ethnographic Outline
This outline serves as a framework for evaluating the information found in the eHRAF World Cultures database. The Ethnographic Outline must be used to complete the various sections in Part I and III of A Cross-Cultural Study of Violence.
I Background
1. Title
2. Author
3. Date first published
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When was the fieldwork done
5. Locations
II Methods
1. How long in the field, how many trips?
2. What methods did the anthropologist use?
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Kinds of information collected
III Comparative Framework
1. Economics. How do people make their livings?
2. Social organization. How is the society organized? What kinds of groups are there (households, villages, kin groups)? What sorts of things do these groups do?
3. Political organization. Who are the leaders, how are they selected, what sorts of things can leaders do?
4. What causes conflicts? Prevents conflicts? How are conflicts resolved? Who mediates the resolution?
5. What social units are involved in conflicts? Individuals, men vs. women, men vs. men, households, communities? Think about the relationships within the groups - between men & women, children & adults, women & women, men & men, in-laws, between different kin-groups. And between groups.
6. What kinds of violence? What are the consequences of violence?
7. Topics appropriate for your particular hypothesis.
URL Index for A
Cross-Cultural Study of Violence
Part I: Syllabus--Assignments and Topics: http://www.yale.edu/hraf/Violence_Cross-Cultures1.htm.
Part II: Ethnographic Outline: http://www.yale.edu/hraf/Violence_Cross-Cultures2.htm.
Part III: eHRAF Assignments: http://www.yale.edu/hraf/Violence_Cross-Cultures3.htm.
eHRAF World Cultures database: http://ehrafworldcultures.yale.edu.
eHRAF User's Guide at http://www.yale.edu/hraf/userguides.html for help on how to navigate around the database.
Citing eHRAF documents:
You should include a standard bibliographic reference
for the material, i.e.
Appadurai, Arjun
1996 Modernity at
Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization.
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Don't forget to include page numbers when citing material in the text! You should also include the basic retrieval statement for an on-line database: Retrieved [month day, year,] from [source] on-line database ([name of database], [item no.--if applicable]).
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