Comparative Methods in Anthropology

The SUBCONTRACTOR's researchers shall be responsible for conducting and developing the first half of the research on the Processual Method of Historical Sociology (PMHS) as funded by NSF. He will be responsible for a) adapting the PMHS methodology for Anthropology, b) coding of additional four cases for the East African database, and c) photocopying, iii) reading all the material and analyzing each case with respect to causal complexity and iv) entry of codes into database. Note that step (iii) is not simply a question of coding but a qualified process of holistic interpretation and analysis that requires extensive ethnographic background knowledge.