| This course is an introduction to techniques of collecting and analyzing anthropological data, with a focus on the methods useful in linguistic and psychological anthropology. We focus on data collection methods including freelisting, identification tasks, similarity judgment, ranking and rating, and frame substitution tasks. The data we collect will be analyzed using univariate analysis, correlation, t-tests, analysis of variance, factor analysis, correspondence analysis, cluster analysis, and multidimensional scaling. Our goal is to give members of the class experience in using a variety of methods of collecting anthropological data and in seeing a variety of multivariate methods used to analyze the resulting data.
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