Course Resources
Course Books
- Martin, Paul and Patrick Bateson. 2007. Measuring behavior: An introductory guide. Cambridge
University Press. Any edition from the 3rd on is fine.
- Nippert-Eng, Christena. 2015. Watching Closely: a guide to ethnographic observation. Oxford University Press.
Texts Available Online
- Bernard, H.R. and Gravlee, C.C. eds., 2014. Handbook of methods in cultural anthropology. Rowman
& Littlefield. Available online through UMD library.
- Silge, J., Robinson, D. and Robinson, D., 2017. Text mining with R: A tidy approach (p. 194). Boston (MA): O’Reilly
- Wickham, Hadley and Garrett Grolemund. R for Data Science.
- Douglas, Alex, Deon Roos, Francesca Mancini, Ana Couto & David Lusseau. An Introduction to R.
- McLevey (2023) Sage Handbook of Social Network Analysis (Second Edition). 2nd ed. London, England: SAGE Publications Ltd. Available online through UMD library.
- Biggs, R., De Vos, A., Preiser, R., Clements, H., Maciejewski, K. and Schlüter, M., 2021. The Routledge handbook of research methods for social-ecological systems (p. 526). Taylor & Francis.
Required hardware and software
Graduate student book
- Bernard, H.R. and Wutich, A., 2026. Research methods in anthropology: Qualitative and quantitative approaches. Bloomsbury Publishing USA. (Any edition is fine, you will just need to adjust the page numbers accordingly. My chapter titles and page numbers come from the 5th edition).
Help with R
Resources on specific data analysis techniques
- Spatial analysis
- Data visualization
- Markdown