Russel-Research-Method-in-Anthropology

Subject Index 781
median, 562, 563–66; grouped data, calculation
for, 564–66; under various
distributions, 575, 575
Meditations (Descartes), 9
MEDLINE, 103
memoing, 492, 497, 500–503
memory building, 365–66
The Mending Wall (Frost), 19
mental maps, 684, 687, 687
Merton, Robert, 5
meta-analysis, 107–8, 130
metaphors, schemas and, 482
metaphysics, 5–6
method, meanings of, 3
methodological notes, 395–97
metric data, 681
Mexican folk tale schema, 483–84
Micturition Study, 442–43
The Middle Five (La Flesche), 471
Milgram’s Obedience Experiment, 75–77
Mill, John Stuart, 11, 13–14, 18
‘‘A Million Random Digits with 100,000
Normal Deviates’’ (Rand Corporation),
150
minidisk recorders, 229–30
minimizing the within-group variance,
154
mixed methods, 298, 384–386
mode, 562–63; under various distributions,
575, 575
modulus, 181
Morris, Beverly, 374
mortality confound, 117
Mountain Wolf Woman (Winnebago
woman), 472–73
multicollinearity, 661, 672–75
multidimensional scaling analysis
(MDS), 681–89, 684, 687, 688; cognitive
world examples, 684–89; physical
world example, 683–84
multidimensional variables, 29–30
multiple free pile sorts, 312
multiple indicator scales, 319–20
multiple-R, 661
multiple regression, 661–69; application
of, 663–67; case examples, 667–69;
equation, 661–63; stepwise multiple
regression, 667. See also path analysis
multiple-R squared, 661
multiple-way ANOVA (MANOVA), 602
multivariate analysis, 549, 550, 649–94;
cluster analysis, 689–92; discriminant
function analysis (DFA), 692–94; factor
analysis, 675–81; multicollinearity,
661, 672–75; partial correlation,
658–61; path analysis, 670–72. See
also elaboration method; multidimensional
scaling; multiple regression
multivariate relations, 95
Mumikhpykak, Boris, 377
Murdock, George Peter, 515
mutual exclusivity, 46, 511
Ñähñu native ethnography, 467–70
naiveté, participant observation and,
366–68
narrative and performance analysis, 473,
475–79
National Association of Practicing
Anthropologists, 75
National Black Election Study, 262
National Technical Information Service
(NTIS), 102–3
native ethnography, 465–73; genres,
471–73; Wolcott’s critique of, 468–70
native ethnography, Ñähñu, 467–70
natural experiments, 133–35
naturalistic experiments, 135–40
natural logarithm, 634
nature-nurture problem, 89
Naturwissenschaften, 21, 81
necessary condition, 548
negative cases, 500
negative covariants, 603
network cues, 248–49
network sampling, 192–94. See sampling,
chain referral
neutral probe, 219