Cross-Cultural Research Methods - Tapa blanda

After outlining the advantages and disadvantages of different types of comparisons, [the authors] lead the reader through the process of cross-cultural research from developing a hypothesis to sampling, measuring, coding, and analyzing the data.--A. Funderburg "Methodology and Research Technology " The book's merits are easy to catalog: It is a detailed and comprehensive review of some important aspects of comparative studies in anthropology; it has been written from a well-informed ethnographic and mathematical background; and there is no inclination to gloss over the uncertainties and shortcomings of the comparative approach. Well-organized, clear, and concise with a number of appropriate examples illustrating the major points, this book deserves a wide reading simply because the cross-cultural comparison is the only method we have for attacking an important class of anthropological problems.--T.A. Foor, (University of Montana) "CHOICE "

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