World Ethnographic Sample

Clustering of Twenty-Eight Sample Areas in the Ethnographic Ev

Attached is the first of two reports on results of the study whose objective is to assess the relative values of explanatory variables on the prediction of census omission and erroneous enumeration based on the data collected for the Ethnographic Evaluation of the Behavioral Causes of Census Undercount for the 1990 Decennial Census. This report focuses on the result of an explanatory data analy...

World-system and regional linkages as causally implicated in local level conflicts at the ethnographic horizon

Critique of dirposiiianal explanarions for local level conflict shows anomalies in Ross's theor? of violence and in ethnographic accounrr using "culture ofviolence" explanarions of conflict. This paperparallels inrernaiionai relations theories (e. g. Waltz 1959) in examining hypothcrer about regional md -or idryarem linkages as causally implicated in local-level wariare. In apilor riudy usinga ...

Ethnographic demography: the use of ethnographic texts by demographers

Reassembling Ethnographic Museum Collections

This volume addresses fundamental questions about the nature, value, and efficacy of museum collections in a postcolonial world and the agency of indigenous people in their production. The book’s primary focus lies with those objects that, by way of their specific histories, have been defined as “ethnographic”; however, the question of the contexts in which things are defined as “art” as oppose...

Infrastructure and Ethnographic Practice

By bringing together science studies, information science and ethnographic fieldwork in interdisciplinary research the author argues for the relevance of ethnographic practices when studying information systems as infrastructures of communication. Ethnographic fieldwork focuses attention on fringes and materialities of infrastructures and renders the researcher able to read the invisible layers...