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Cultural Anthropology

Fourfold Approach in American Anthropology
(Interdiciplinary)

see also Archaeological Methods and Dating

Ethnography -- Wikipedia

^{Source: Parade Magazine}

• I Can Out-Interdiscipline You: Anthropology and the Biocultural Approach -- Scientific American (01 May 2012)

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General Methods

Materials and Methods of Anthropology -- Social Science Information Gateway, University of Bristol

• CAM: Cultural Anthropology Methods
  • Freelists -- Steve Borgatti
    
    
• Data -- Anthro.Net
  
  
• Software for Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis -- Douglas White
  
  
• Technology for Anthropology in the Field -- Cyril Belshaw Software
  
  
• Living Standards Measurement Study of the World Bank (LSMS) -- (resource for researchers, worldwide, with data sets and methodological lessons taken from LSMS's household surveys)
  
  
• SurveyMonkey

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Correlational Methods

• Ethnographic Atlas
  • Crosstabulations
  • Reading and Analyzing Cross-cultural Data from tables Considerations -- Michael Fischer
    
    
• HRAF -- Human Relations Area Files
  
  
• White-Veit EthnoAtlas -- Douglas R. White and Cynthia Veit

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Quantitative / Statistical Methods

• statistics
  • standard deviation
    
    
• The Amazonian Tribe That Can Only Count Up to Five -- Guardian (31 March 2010)
  
  
• Anthropac -- Analytic Technologies
  • Freelists -- Steve Borgatti
    
    
• Algebasics
  
  
• Calculus on the Web -- Gerardo Mendoza and Dan Reich
  
  
• Center for the Teaching of Statistics -- UCLA
  
  
• Digital Research Tools -- Lisa Spiro, Digital Media Center, Rice University
  
  
• Do the Math! Sex Divide Is Cultural, Not Biological -- LiveScience (12 December 2011)
  
  
• An Exhibition That Gets to the (Square) Root of Sumerian Math -- New York Times (22 November 2010)
  
  
• Exploring Data
  
  
• Geometry -- Eric Weisstein, Wolfram Research
  
  
• HyperStat Online -- David M. Lane
  
  
• KrackPlot: a social network visualization program -- Analytic Technologies
  
  
• Algebra: In Simplest Terms -- Annenberg Foundation
  
  
• The mathematical law that shows why wealth flows to the 1% ["the 80/20 rule"] [power law distribution] -- The Guardian (11 November 2011)
  
  
• Mean and Median Applet -- Mathematical Sciences Digital Library, Mathematical Association of America (MAA)
  
  
• More or Less -- BBC and the Open University
  
  
• Probability Tutorials
  
  
• Research Tools, Digital -- Lisa Spiro, Digital Media Center, Rice University
  
  
• UCINET: Network Analysis Software -- Analytic Technologies
  
  
• World Cultures -- Analytic Technologies
  
  
• Free SoftWare -- Analytic Technologies

• S.O.S. Mathematics -- Math Medics
  
  
• SPSS: The Statistical Package for the Social Sciences
  
  
• SYSTAT -- Statistical analysis package
  
  
• Success in Mathematics -- ADULTLEARN.com
  
  
• scaling (slides)
  
  
• VIDEO
  • video: The Ascent of Man: "Music of the Spheres"(05 of 13) -- Jacob Bronowski [The language of numbers and mathematics] (52 min., 1974, UM DULUTH Library Multimedia VC 78)
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    • Bronowski, Jacob. The Ascent of Man. BBC Books, 2011 [1974].