Includes bibliographical references (pages 661-700) and indexes.
1. Anthropology and the Social Sciences -- 2. The Foundations of Social Research -- 3. Preparing for Research -- 4. The Literature Search -- 5. Research Design: Experiments and Experimental Thinking -- 6. Sampling -- 7. Sampling Theory -- 8. Nonprobability Sampling and Choosing Informants -- 9. Interviewing: Unstructured and Semistructured -- 10. Structured Interviewing: Questionnaires -- 11. Structured Interviewing: Cultural Domain Analysis -- 12. Scales and Scaling -- 13. Participant Observation -- 14. Field Notes: How to Take Them, Code Them, Manage Them -- 15. Direct and Indirect Observation -- 16. Introduction to Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis -- 17. Qualitative Data Analysis I: Text Analysis -- 18. Qualitative Data Analysis II: Models and Matrices -- 19. Univariate Analysis -- 20. Bivariate Analysis: Testing Relations -- 21. Multivariate Analysis -- App. B. Table of Areas under a Normal Curve -- App. C. Student's t Distribution -- App. D. Chi-Square Distribution Table -- App. E. Tables of Percentage Points of the Inverted Beta (F) Distribution -- App. F. Resources for Field Workers