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[v: TOC] Contents Acknowledgments About the Authors Foreword David Featherman Introduction Ellen Perecman and Sara Curran PART I: Selecting the Right Tools 1. Archives The Past is Another Country Robert Vitalis Bibliography 1. General References 2. Missionary Archives 3. Law Cases, Commissions and Enquiries 4. Medical Reports 5. Personal Papers and Private correspondence 6. National and Regional Archives 7. Urban Archives 8. Newspapers 2. Case Studies Case-Based Research Andrew Schrank Bibliography 1. Overviews: Case Studies, Critics, and Rejoinders 2. The ?One Shot? Case Study Revisited 3. Comparative Case Approaches 4. Sub-national Approaches 5. ?Doing? Case Studies 6. Counterfactuals 7. The ?Negative Case? Approach 8. Concept Formation 3. Ethnographic Methods Ethnography: Theory and Methods Alma Gottlieb Bibliography 1. Theory and Methods 2. Other Good Examples 3. Memoirs about Fieldwork 4. Oral Histories Oral Histories as Methods and Sources Tamara Giles-Vernick Bibliography 1. Oral Traditions: Theory and Method 2. Oral Traditions: Case Studies 3. Oral and Life History: Theory and Method 4. Oral and Life History: Case Studies 5. Focus Groups Focus Group Interviews Susan Short Bibliography 6. Surveys and Secondary Data Sources Using Survey Data in Social Science Research in Developing Countries Albert Park Bibliography 1. Overview and Essentials 2. Planning, Proposing and Sampling for Survey Data 3. Qualitative Inquiry in and Beyond the Design Process 4. Developing Good Questions: Fundamental Concepts 5. Pretesting: Rationale and Overview of Pre-Field and Field Techniques 6. Data Pre-Coding, Coding, Cleaning and Management 7. Administration 8. Fieldwork in Principle and Practice; Strategies for Monitoring Quality 9. Analysis of Survey Data 10. Secondary Data Sources Secondary Data Sources 7. Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Tools Qualitative Research: Does it Fit in Economics? Michael Piore Bibliography 1. General Issues in Study Design 2. General Texts for Statistics and Econometrics 3. Specific Quantitative Methods and Concerns PART II: Essentials for the Conduct of Research Overview 8. Essentials for Ethnography Ethnographic Research Stevan Harrell 9. Essentials for the Case Study Method The Case Study and Causal Research Andrew Shrank 10. Essentials for Research Design In Search of the Holy Grail: Projects, Proposals, and Research Design, But Mostly about Why Writing a Dissertation Proposal is So Difficult Michael Watts 11. Research Ethics are Essential Ethical Considerations for Research in Cross-Cultural Settings Sara Curran Bibliography 1. Essential Sources across Methods 2. Research Ethics 12. Maintaining Perspective is Essential Bringing It All Back Home: Personal Reflections on Friends, Findings, and Fieldwork Andrew Schrank
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Social sciences -- Field work.
Social sciences -- Research.
Social sciences -- Methodology.