1st Edition
Micro And Macro Levels Of Analysis In Anthropology Issues In Theory And Research
By Pertti J Pelto
Copyright 1985
228 Pages
by
Routledge
230 Pages
by
Routledge
230 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book reviews the history of micro/macro issues in anthropology and provides a framework for a more systematic examination of potential linkages among levels. It also provides empirical examples of the articulation of micro/macro theory and methods in sociocultural research.
1. Microlevel/Macrolevel Linkages: An Introduction to the Issues and a Framework for Analysis 2. The Micro-Macro Nexus: Typology, Process, and System 3. Regulation and Natural Selection in the Micro/Macro Perspective 4. The Boundaries of Rural Stratification Systems 5. Local History in Global Context: Social and Economic Transitions in Western Guatemala 6. Bringing the Period Down: Government and Squatter Settlement Confront Induced Abortion in Ecuador 7. The Political Economy of Rural Transformation: A Mexican Case 8. Microcosmic and Macrocosmic Processes of Agrarian Change in Southern Honduras: The Cattle are Eating the Forest 9. Methodology in Macro-Micro Studies
Biography
Billie R. DeWalt is a professor of anthropology and rural sociology and is acting director of the Latin American Studies Program at the University of Kentucky. Pertti J. Pelto is professor of anthropology and community medicine at the University of Connecticut.
