Networks, Resources and Economic Action (Kulturanalysen) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3496028262 ISBN 13: 9783496028260

Publisher: Dietrich Reimer Verlag GmbH, 2009

Synopsis

The contributions to this extensive work cover a broad range of topics connected to networks, resources, and economic action. They are based on ethnographic field research in East and Southeast Asia, Oceania, Africa, North, Middle and South America as well as Europe. They took place as well in rural as in urban spaces. They investigate in all often contrary and conflicting directions a large variety of networks, economic behaviour and resource management.

About this title

About the Author:

H. Russell Bernard is Professor of Anthropology, Emeritus at the University of Florida. He served as editor of the "American Anthropologist "and "Human Organization". He is co-founder (with Pertti Pelto and Stephen Borgatti) of the "Cultural Anthropology Methods "journal (1989), which became "Field Methods "in 1999. The five editions of his methods text "Research Methods in Anthropology "(AltaMira 2006) and his general research methods text "Social Research Methods "(Sage 2012), have been used by tens of thousands of students. Bernard co-founded (with Pelto) and co-directed (with Pelto and Borgatti) the National Science Foundation's Institute on Research Methods in Cultural Anthropology and has done fieldwork in Greece, Mexico, and the U.S.A. His publications include (with Jesus Salinas Pedraza) "Native Ethnography: A Otomi Indian Describes His Culture "(Sage, 1989). Bernard is known as well for his work, with Peter Killworth, Eugene Johnsen, Christopher McCarty, and Gene A. Shelley, on network analysis, including work on the network scale-up method for estimating hard-to-count populations. In 2010, Bernard was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.

About this edition

• Publisher: Dietrich Reimer Verlag GmbH
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 3496028262
• ISBN 13: 9783496028260
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352
• Editor: Greiner Clemens, Kokot Waltraud