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  • Week 1: Introduction
    • Monday agenda
    • Wednesday agenda
    • Reading
  • Week 2: Behavioral Observation
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  • Week 3: Research Design 1
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  • Week 4: Research Design 2
    • Monday agenda
    • Wednesday agenda
    • Reading
  • Week 5: Social Network Analysis
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  • Week 6: Structured Data Collection
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  • Week 7: Cognitive Anth 1
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  • Week 8: Research Proposal Reviews
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  • Week 9: Spatial Analysis 1
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    • Reading
  • Week 10: Spatial Analysis 2
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    • Wednesday agenda
    • Reading
    • Assignment
  • Week 11: Text Analysis 1
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  • Week 12: Text analysis 2
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  • Week 13: Cognitive Anth 2
    • Monday agenda
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    • Reading
  • Week 14: Presentations
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ANTH475/675: Field Skills in Ecological Anthropology

Week 13: Cognitive Anth 2

Monday agenda

  • In-class Activity: Object Mapping (From Watching Closely)
  • Discussion: Text Analysis Review

Wednesday agenda

    • R Tutorial: Spatial Networks in R
  • R Workshopping

Reading

  • Stone-Jovicich, S. S., T. Lynam, A. Leitch, and N. A. Jones. 2011. Using Consensus Analysis to Assess Mental Models about Water Use and Management in the Crocodile River Catchment, South Africa. Ecology and Society 16(1): 45.

  • Beaudreau, A.H., Levin, P.S. and Norman, K.C. (2011), Using folk taxonomies to understand stakeholder perceptions for species conservation. Conservation Letters, 4: 451-463.

  • Struelens, Q., Mina, D. and Dangles, O., 2024. A landscape’s social and ecological services are equally valued by Andean farmers when deciding where to grow a crop. Mountain Research and Development, 44(2), pp.R10-R19.

  • Before class on Wednesday:

    • Watching Closely: Exercise 8 – Object Mapping 1 (pg. 223-226)
  • After class on Wednesday:

    • Watching Closely: Exercise 8 – Object Mapping 1 Post-exercise discussion (pg. 227-234)