Includes bibliographical references (pages 262-273) and indexes.
Forest of methods / Elisa J. Sobo and Victor C. de Munck -- Participant observation : a thick explanation of conflict in a Sri Lankan village / Victor C. de Munck -- Content analysis of words in brief descriptions : how fathers and mothers describe their children / Gery Ryan and Thomas Weisner -- Freelisting : management at a women's federal prison camp / Mark S. Fleisher and Jennifer A. Harrington -- Freelists, ratings, averages, and frequencies : why so few students study anthropology / Juliana Flinn -- Pile sorting : "kids like candy" / Gun Roos -- Guttman scaling : an analysis of Matsigenka men's manufacturing skills / Allen Johnson -- Triad questionnaires : old age in Karen and Maya cultures / Robert C. Harman -- Decision modeling : its use in medical anthropology / Carole E. Hill -- Consensus analysis : sampling frames for valid, generalizable research findings / W. Penn Handwerker -- Consensus analysis : do Scottish business advisers agree on models of success? / Douglas Caulkins -- Consensus analysis : high blood pressure in a Mexican barrio / Javier Garcia de Alba Garcia ... [et al.] -- Visual data : collection, analysis, and representation / Jeffrey C. Johnson and David C. Griffith -- MDS and QAP : how do children rate painful experiences? / Lauren Clark ... [et al.]