Week 6: Cognitive Anth 1

October 5

Monday agenda

• Lecture: Structured Data Collection
• Lecture: Cognitive Anthropology

Wednesday agenda

• R Workshopping
• In-class Activity: Mental Maps and Freelists

Reading

• Handbook of methods in cultural anthropology: Structured Interviewing and Questionnaire Construction - Susan C. Weller (pg. 343-390)
• Measuring Behavior: Chapter 7 – How good are your measures? (pg. 72 – 85)
• Shackleton, S., Bezerra, J.C., Cockburn, J., Reed, M.G. and Abu, R., 2021. Interviews and surveys. In The Routledge handbook of research methods for social-ecological systems (pp. 107-118). Routledge.
• Pzreworski, Adam, Salomon, Frank, On the Art of Writing Proposals (Social Science Research Council, 1995 rev., 1988).
• 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.

Graduate Reading

• RMA: Ch. 8, Interviewing I: Unstructured and Semistructured, pg. 156-186.
• RMA: Ch. 9, Interviewing II: Questionnaires, pg. 187-222.

Assignments

• Applied Methods Report 3: Network Analysis