NSF Training Opportunity

Bolivia

&

Zambia

Summer 2005 field training in methods of data collection in cultural anthropology:

Introduction

How to apply

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The curriculum

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NSF Summer Training Workshop on Methods of Data Collection in Cultural Anthropology

Six weeks: June 6th-July 16, 2005

Readings

Syllabus

Week #1.

• Code of ethics

• Survey problem set

• Figure on three-dimensional econometrics

• Summary of biases in survey design: 1 sheet summary

• Methods of panel study

Week #2.

• Consumption smoothing across space. J. Morduch. (Manuscript PDF version)

• Consumption smoothing in Honduras (World Development)

• Human capital, wealth, and nutrition in the Bolivian Amazon (Economics and Human Biology)

• Spanish fluency and earnings (Population Economics; under review)

• Size matters. (Journal of Socio-Economics)

• The standard error of regression. (Journal of Economic Literature)

Week #3.

• Kuznets in the bush (Human Ecology)

• Do smiles have a face value? (Journal of Economic Psychology)

• In search of homo economicus. (American Economic Review)

• Food transfers among Hiwi foragers. (Human Ecology)

Week #4.

• Wildlife knowledge among migrants. (Environmental Conservation)

• Economic development and traditional knowledge. Manuscript

• Measuring culture as shared knowledge. (Field Methods)

• Folk ecology, cultural epidemiology, and spirit of the comment. (Current Anthropology)

• Using traditional ecological knowledge in science: methods and applications (Ecological applications)

• Rediscovery of traditional ecologocal knowledge (Ecological applications)

Week #5.

• Physical growth and nutritional status (American J of Physical Anthropology)

• Field methods with diet and activity (Notes)

• Social and demographic influences on diet and nutritional status (Human Ecology)

• Methods of dietary and anthropometric assessment of nutritional health (Research Methods in Human Biology; Human Biology)

• Predictors of C-reactive protein (American J of Physical Anthropology)

• The health consequences of cultural consonance (American Anthropologist)

• Anthropometric Assessmen t of Nutritional Status

• Human Biology: an Evolutionary and Biocultural Perspective

• Notes Univariate, Bivariate, Multivariate

 

Introduction

How to apply

Description of the research sites

The curriculum

Faculty