• Course Overview
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    • Required hardware and software
    • Help with R
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  • Week 1: Introduction
    • Monday agenda
    • Wednesday agenda
    • Reading
  • Week 2: Behavioral Observation
    • Monday agenda
    • Wednesday agenda
    • Reading
      • Assignment
  • Week 3: Research Design 1
    • Monday agenda
    • Wednesday agenda
    • Reading
      • Recommended Reading
    • Assignments
  • Week 4: Research Design 2
    • Monday agenda
    • Wednesday agenda
    • Reading
  • Week 5: Social Network Analysis
    • Monday agenda
    • Wednesday agenda
    • Reading
  • Week 6: Structured Data Collection
    • Monday agenda
    • Wednesday agenda
    • Reading
    • Assignments
  • Week 7: Cognitive Anth 1
    • Monday agenda
    • Wednesday agenda
    • Reading
    • Assignment
  • Week 8: Research Proposal Reviews
    • Monday agenda
    • Wednesday agenda
    • Reading
    • Assignment
  • Week 9: Spatial Analysis 1
    • Monday agenda
    • Wednesday agenda
    • Reading
  • Week 10: Spatial Analysis 2
    • Monday agenda
    • Wednesday agenda
    • Reading
    • Assignment
  • Week 11: Text Analysis 1
    • Monday agenda
    • Wednesday agenda
    • Reading
  • Week 12: Text analysis 2
    • Monday agenda
    • Wednesday agenda
    • Reading
    • Assignment
  • Week 13: Cognitive Anth 2
    • Monday agenda
    • Wednesday agenda
    • Reading
  • Week 14: Presentations
    • Monday agenda
    • Wednesday agenda
    • Reading

ANTH475/675: Field Skills in Ecological Anthropology

Week 7: Cognitive Anth 1

Monday agenda

  • In-class Activity: Mental Maps and Freelists
  • Discussion: Network Analysis Report Review

Wednesday agenda

  • R Tutorial: Cultural Domain Analysis in R

Reading

  • Borgatti, Stephen. 1998. Elicitation Techniques for Cultural Domain Analysis. In J. Schensul and M. LeCompte (eds). The Ethnographers Toolkit, Vol 3. Walnut Creek, CA: Altamira Press.(website version: http://www.analytictech.com/borgatti/etk.htm)
  • Gantuya, B., M. Biró, Á. Molnár, Á. Avar, A. Sharifian Bahraman, D. Babai, and Z. Molnár. 2021. How Mongolian herders perceive ecological change in a “stable” landscape. Ecology and Society 26(2):21.
  • MacMillan, G.A., Badry, N.A., Sarmiento, I., Grant, E., Hickey, G.M. and Humphries, M.M., 2024. Cree knowledge, fuzzy cognitive maps, and the social-ecology of moose habitat quality under an adapted forestry regime. Ecology and Society, 29(4).
  • R for Data Science: Chapter 19 – Joins

Assignment

  • Research Proposal and Methods Description