Using genuine examples from across the social sciences the Second Edition provides extensive in depth treatment of the subject matter to provide readers with both a conceptual understanding of each method as well as showing them how to apply it.[...]

The Handbook of Methods in Cultural Anthropology, now in its second edition, maintains a strong benchmark for understanding the scope of contemporary anthropological field methods. Avoiding divisive debates over science and humanism, the contributors draw upon both traditions to explore fieldwork in[...]

Through the use of real-life social science examples, this book walks upper-division undergraduate to graduate students through the steps of collecting and analyzing qualitative data. Rather than cover data collection in separate chapters isolated from analysis techniques, the authors pair each data[...]