Applied Anthropological Research

Introduction: Transferring Anthropological Skills to Applied Health Research

The Aims of Anthropological Research.

The science of anthropology has grown up from many distinct beginnings. At an early time men were interested in foreign countries and in the lives of their inhabitants. Herodotus reported to the Greeks what he had seen in many lands. Caesar and Tacitus wrote on the customs of the Gauls and Germans. In the Middle Ages Marco Polo, the Venetian, and Ibn Batuta, the Arab, told of the strange people...

Anthropological Research Methods and Techniques

Scientific Research in Anthropology • Science and Scientific Method • Characteristics of Scientific Method • Steps of scientific Method • Subjectivity and Objectivity • Anthropology as a Science Method and Methodology, Approaches and Perspectives • Approaches of Anthropological Research • Comparative Method • Cross-cultural Comparison • Historical Method • Ethnographic Method • Anthropological ...

on the status of mixed methods research in applied linguistics

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A Portable Unit for Anthropological Research

This article describes a lightweight, portable unit which can be used by anthropologists in field studies to obtain data on human caloric expenditures. Human energetics data are in growing demand and the unit here described permits efficient collection and rapid analysis of caloric expenditures in even the most remote research situations. The entire unit consisting of a backpack respirometer an...