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Studies in Behavioral Anthropology
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 426

Studies in Behavioral Anthropology

This is a unique collection of essays illustrating the author's distinctive approach to cross-cultural research, and a valuable companion volume to Graves's Behavioral Anthropology. Graves and his co-authors offer fifteen research essays as supplemental readings in research methodology, to convey the challenge and excitement of conducting systematic behavioral science research cross-culturally. For those concerned with a behavioral, scientific approach to anthropology, this book will be a valuable reference and teaching tool.

Behavioral Anthropology
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 430

Behavioral Anthropology

Behavioral Anthropology is a unique introductory text that combines an intellectual biography with an overview of the methodological principles of cross-cultural research. Each chapter deals with a specific methodological issue: research design; the role of theory; strategies for measuring behavior; psychological or situational variables; samples and surveys simple and complex methods of data analysis and interpretation. For those interested in the behavioral approach, this book will be a valuable reference and teaching tool.

The Making of Psychological Anthropology
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 680

The Making of Psychological Anthropology

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1978.

Migration Decision Making
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 407

Migration Decision Making

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-10-22
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  • Publisher: Elsevier

Migration Decision Making: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Microlevel Studies and Developing Countries discusses several topics, such as systematics review and evaluation of microlevel frameworks and models of the migration decision; applicability of microlevel migration models and framework; and general policy implications of microlevel models and frame works. The opening chapter introduces the main themes and provides an overview of the book. Chapter 2 discusses the motivation for migration, an assessment and a value-expectancy research model, and the next chapter tackles macrolevel influences on the migration decision process. Chapter 4 covers microeconomic approaches to studying migratio...

Research Awards Index
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 602

Research Awards Index

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1981
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Research Relating to Children
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 986

Research Relating to Children

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1975
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Stress and Adaptation in the Context of Culture
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 544

Stress and Adaptation in the Context of Culture

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1991-01-01
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  • Publisher: SUNY Press

This book provides a unique study in social and cultural psychiatry, carried out in an African-American community in the rural South. Using a combination of concepts and methods from anthropology and social epidemiology, the specific social and psychological risk factors for depression are examined. The author places special emphasis on how that risk is modified by the social and historical context of the Black community in the United States, and suggests a new basis for the sociocultural comparative study of health and disease.

National Union Catalog
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1036

National Union Catalog

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1980
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Includes entries for maps and atlases.

Learning to Cooperate, Cooperating to Learn
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 477

Learning to Cooperate, Cooperating to Learn

This book was written and edited as a project of the International Asso ciation for the Study of Cooperation in Education (lASCE). It grew di rectly out of the second conference of the lASCE, held at Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, in [uly 1982. The chapters in the book were originally presented in some form at the Provo conference, though most have been considerably revised since that time. This is the second book sponsored by the lASCE; the first, Cooperation in Education (Provo, Utah:Brigham Young University Press, 1980), edited by Shlomo Sharan, Paul Hare, Clark Webb, and Rachel Hertz-Lazarowitz, was based on the proceedings of the first conference of the IASCE in Tel Aviv, Israel, in 1979. The IASCE is a group of educators interested in studying, devel oping, or applying cooperative methods at various levels of the process of education. It includes researchers, teacher educators, teachers, and school administrators from more than a dozen countries.

Migration Theory
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 252

Migration Theory

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-05-13
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  • Publisher: Routledge

During the last decade the issue of migration has increased in global prominence and has caused controversy among the host countries around the world. Continuing their interdisciplinary approach, editors Catherine Brettell and James Hollifield have included revised essays from the first edition in such fields as anthropology, political science, and history. This edition also features new essays by a demographer, geopgrapher, and sociologist.