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| Statistical or measurable info, such as demographic composition, the types and quantities of crops grown, or the ratio of spouses born and raised within or outside the community. |
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| Nonstatistical info such as personal life stories and customary beliefs and practices |
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| An unconstructed, open-ended conversation in everyday life. |
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| A structured question/answer session carefully notated as it occurs and based on prepared questions. |
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| An activity or object used to draw out individuals and encourage them to recall and share info. |
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| The use of technologies (audio and visual) for the collection, analysis, and representation of ethnographic data. |
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| A study of cultures of the recent past through oral histories; accounts of explorers, missionaries, and traders;and analysis of record such as land titles, birth, and death records, and other archival materials. |
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| Human Relations Area Files (HRAF) |
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| A vast collection of cross-indexed ethnographic data catalogued by cultural characteristics and geographic locations; archived in about 300 libraries (on microfiche or online). |
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| A theoretical approach stressing the primacy of superstructure in cultural research and analysis. |
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| A theoretical approach stressing the primacy of infrastructure (material conditions) in cultural research and analysis. |
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