Volume 17 — 2005

Issue 1, February 2005

Special Section on Attrition

Survey Response in the Long Run: The Wisconsin Longitudinal Study.Robert M. Hauser

Survey Mode as a Source of Instability in Responses across Surveys. Don A. Dillman and Leah Melani Christian

Methodological Issue in the Effects of Attrition: Simple Solutions for Social Scientists. Kathy Ahern and Robyne Le Brocque

Articles

Multiple Measures of Alyawarra Kinship. Woodrow W. Denham and Douglas R. White

Sampling from the United States Census Archives. Michael L. Burton, with Monica Della Croce, Shelly A. Masri, Maile Bartholomew, and Andre Yefremian

Getting the Numbers: The Unacknowledged Work in Recruiting for Survey Research. Jo Lindsay

Issue 2, May 2005

Ethnography and Experiments: Cultural Models and Expertise Effects Elicited withe Experimental Research Techniques.Norbert Ross and Douglas L. Medin

Checking for Relationships across Domains Measured by Triads and Paired Comparisons.E. Pual Durrenberger and Suzan Erem

Photo Interviews: Eliciting Data through Conversations with Children. Marva Cappello

Thinking Aloud to Create Better Condom Use Questions. Mildred Edwards, Sarah C. Thomsen, and Cathy Toroitich-Ruto

Short Takes

Object and Walking Probes in Ethnographic Interviewing.Jason Patrick De Leon and Jeffrey H. Cohen

Book Reviews

Totems and Teachers: Key Figures in the History of Anthropology.Pertti (Bert) Pelto

Issue 3, August 2005

Special Issue: Advances in Ethnobiological Field Methods Guest Editor: John Richard Stepp

Considerations for Collecting Freelists in the Field: Examples from Ethnobotany. Marsha Quinlan

Some Field Methods in Medical Ethnobiology. Elois Ann Berlin and Brent Berlin

Triad Tasks, a Multipurpose Tool to Elicit Similarity Judgments: The Case of Tzotzil Maya Plant Taxonomy. Norbert Ross, Toms Barrientos, and Alberto Esquit-Choy

Scenarios as a Tool for Eliciting and Understanding Farmers’ Biological Knowledge. Daniela Soleri and David A. Cleveland

An Ecological Framework for Participatory Ethnobotanical Research at Mt. Kasigau, Kenya. Kimberly E. Medley and Humphrey W. Kalibo

Book Review

Review Essay: Gaining Access: A Practical and Theoretical Guide for Qualitative Researchers, by Martha S. Feldman, Jeannine Bell, and Michele Tracy Berger; Doing Cultural Anthropology: Projects for Ethnographic Data Collection, by Michael V. Angrosino. Brigitte Jordan

Software Review

Review of TAMS Analyzer (Macintosh Version). Bill Warters

Issue 4, November 2005

Measuring Cultural Consonance: Examples with Special Reference to Measurement Theory in Anthropology. William W. Dressler, Camila D. Borges, Mauro C. Balieiro, and José Ernesto dos Santos

Measuring Traditional Agro-Ecological Knowledge: An Example from Peasants in the Peruvian Andes. Jorge M. Rocha

Special Section on Building Scales in the Field

Using Existing Tests and Scales in the Field. Robert W. Schrauf and Ellen Navarro

Measuring Stress Among Luo Elders: Development of the Luo Perceived Stress Scale. Gillian H. Ice and Jaja Yogo

Scale Adaptation and Ethnography. David P. Kennedy