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Studies in Behavioral Anthropology

Name: Studies in Behavioral Anthropology
Author: Theodore D. Graves
ISBN: 9780759105744

by Theodore D. Graves

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Overview

Psychography is a new approach to the research and treatment of a child's graphic capacities. Assisted by numerous examples, the book demonstrates what the psychographic capacity is, and how it can be developed. This book is the first to expose the theoretical and applied rationale to the link between small children's drawing and writing activities. Contents: The "Stages" and "tracks" of Psychographic Development; Diagnosing and Identifying Psychographic Difficulties in Children's Drawing; Psychographic Elements of Writing, and Diagnosing of Difficulties; Improvement of Children's Psychographic Capacity; Personal Guidance of Children with Psychographic Difficulities Drawing and Writing; Questions and Answers.

Author Biography: Dr. Jonathan Shatil is Lecutrer at Tel-Aviv University.

Synopsis

This is a unique collection of essays illustrating the author's distinctive approach to cross-cultural research, and a valuable companion volume to Graves's Behavioral Anthropology. Graves and his co-authors offer fifteen research essays as supplemental readings in research methodology, to convey the challenge and excitement of conducting systematic behavioral science research cross-culturally. For those concerned with a behavioral, scientific approach to anthropology, this book will be a valuable reference and teaching tool.

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Focuses on the development of the child's drawing and writing capacity, describing the development stages as found from a decade of research, presenting theories and their significance, and outlining the primary steps in developing and applying a new approach to helping children acquire the skills. Explains the importance of guiding and instructing children in graphic activities, how it should be pursued, and the results to be expected. Addressed to parents and kindergarten and elementary school teachers. Perhaps because the field is so new, the bibliography is quite short. First published in 1993 by Ranot, Tel-Aviv University Publishing House. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

About the Author, Theodore D. Graves

Theodore D. Graves is a retired professor of anthropology and social psychology who has conducted field research in the American southwest, Latin America, East Africa, and the South Pacific. He has twice won the Stirling Award in Culture and Personality of the American Anthropological Association.

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H Russell Bernard

These two volumes are a must for students and teachers of research methods in cultural anthropology. From questionnaires to field experiments, and from simple percentage tables to multivariate models, Graves' body of work offers wonderful examples for teaching research methods in cultural anthropology.

William W. Dressler

For those of us in anthropology committed to doing research that is both theoretically explicit and methodologically rigorous, the publication of Ted Graves' two volumes is a welcome event. These volumes bring together in one place some of the most interesting and innovative research that has been done in anthropology in the latter half of the 20th century. Students today need to study carefully his approach to integrating ethnography and quantitative methods, just as we did when these articles first appeared. All of us will profit from his summary and the extension of his thoughts on the topic of behavioral anthropology, spanning thirty years of work.

Richard Jessor

As cultural anthropology emerges from an extended period of malaise—sterile debates over qualitative versus quantitative method; the nihilism of post-modernist indulgence—these volumes offer a fresh perspective for revitalized inquiry. Reflecting developments in the larger field of behavioral science, they illustrate how attention to behavior, as well as to context and meaning, can enrich understanding and, at the same time, bring scientific rigor to the discipline. Written as a personal-intellectual odyssey, the volumes are engaging and instructive; both faculty and graduate students, especially those seeking a new way forward and the methods with which to explore it, should find them attractive.

Anthony F. C. Wallace

I certainly agree with Graves on the need for a return to some sort of positivistic, scientific attitude in cultural anthropology, emphasizing evidence-based, and if possible, quantitative findings, with a research design that permits replication.