Comparative Methods in Anthropology

人类学比较方法

• 批准号: 0132927
• 负责人: Monique Borgerhoff Mulder
• 金额: $ 12万
• 依托单位: University of California-Davis
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2002
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2002-07-01 至 2004-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0132927&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Comparative; Methods; Anthropology

0132927Borgerhoff MulderThis research will advance the comparative method in anthropology through development and application of new methods involving synchronic (variation across societies) and diachronic (variation across time) change. Using network autocorrelation matrix analyses to control for "Galton's Problem" (the independence of adjacent societies), the project will develop methods that examine how suites of characteristics covary using historical and present-day ethnographic information; evaluate these methods in relation both to other synchronic methods and to newly developed approaches in comparative historical sociology; and apply these methods to test hypotheses using comparative data. The project will test a set of hypotheses (mainly focusing on marriage and bridewealth) about cross-cultural variability using the ethnographic literature (codings of 120 variables for 35 societies) from East Africa over the past 100 years, and then work towards making user-friendly computer programs available on the web to others interested in similar research endeavors. This research will advance our knowledge of East African societies, will help re-establish comparative cross-cultural research as a central part of anthropology, and will help link qualitative and quantitative research traditions.

0132927 Borgerhoff Mulder这项研究将通过发展和应用涉及共时（跨社会变化）和历时（跨时间变化）变化的新方法来推进人类学中的比较方法。利用网络自相关矩阵分析控制“高尔顿问题”（相邻社会的独立性），该项目将开发方法，研究如何使用历史和当今的人种学信息的特征协变套件;评估这些方法与其他同步方法和比较历史社会学中新开发的方法的关系;并将这些方法应用于使用比较数据测试假设。该项目将利用东非过去100年的人种学文献（35个社会的120个变量的编码）来检验一套关于跨文化差异的假设（主要集中在婚姻和新娘），然后努力在网上向其他对类似研究工作感兴趣的人提供用户友好的计算机程序。这项研究将促进我们对东非社会的了解，将有助于重新建立比较跨文化研究作为人类学的核心部分，并将有助于将定性和定量研究传统联系起来。