Research Strategies in Human Biology: Field and Survey Studies

by Edited by Gabriel Ward Lasker , C. G. Nicholas Mascie-Taylor

• ISBN13: 9780521019095
• ISBN10: 0521019095
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-10-13
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This book is about doing research, not about the results obtained. Those engaged on their first research may have had plenty of preparation about the techniques and results of prior research related to their proposed study, but may have limited knowledge of the actual strategies employed or pitfalls encountered by others who have conducted successful field and survey studies. In this book, a number of researchers with experience of working on problems including environmental stresses, population genetics, parasitic vectors and vital records describe obstacles encountered and successful strategies used in their own studies and in those of others. One learns to do research by trial and error, but accounts by experienced investigators can supplement what one learns from mentors and fellow students.

Table of Contents

List of boxes	viii
List of contributors	ix
Preface	xi
Planning a research project	1	(19)
G. W. Lasker
Research designs and sampling strategies	20	(13)
C. G. N. Mascie-Taylor
Biocultural studies of ethnic groups	33	(29)
B. Bogin
Migration	62	(30)
M. A. Little
P. W. Leslie
Collection of human population genetic data	92	(16)
D. F. Roberts
Nutritional studies in biological anthropology	108	(32)
S. J. Ulijaszek
S. S. Strickland
Historical demography and population structure	140	(46)
J. H. Mielke
A. C. Swedlund
Writing for publication	186	(15)
G. W. Lasker
Index	201