Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Introduction / H. Russell Bernard -- Epistemology : the nature and validation of anthropological knowledge / Thomas Schweizer -- In search of meaningful methods / James Fernandez and Michael Herzfeld -- Research design and research strategies / Jeffrey C. Johnson -- Ethics / Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban -- Feminist methods / Christine Ward Gailey -- Transnational research / Ulf Hannerz -- Participant observation / Kathleen M. Dewalt and Billie R. Dewalt with Coral B. Wayland -- Direct systematic observation of behavior / Allen Johnson and Ross Sackett -- Person-centered interviewing and observation / Robert I. Levy and Douglas W. Hollan -- Structured interviewing and questionnaire construction / Susan C. Weller -- Discourse-centered methods / Brenda Farnell and Laura R. Graham -- From pictorializing to visual anthropology / Fadwa El Guindi -- Fieldwork in the archives : methods and sources in historical anthropology / Caroline B. Brettell -- Reasoning with numbers / W. Penn Handwerker and Stephen P. Borgatti -- Text analysis : qualitative and quantitative methods / H. Russell Bernard and Gery W. Ryan -- Cross-cultural research / Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember -- Methods in applied anthropology / Robert T. Trotter, II and Jean J. Schensul -- Presenting anthropology to diverse audiences / Conrad Phillip Kottak.