An evaluation of demographers' use of ethnographies

Population Studies

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 337-346

  Coast, Ernestina ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anthropology; Culture; Ethnography; Methodology; Qualitative research

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC RESEARCH; CULTURAL INFLUENCE; DEMOGRAPHIC METHOD; METHODOLOGY; SOCIAL STRUCTURE;

EID: 0344983249     PISSN: 00324728     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0032472032000137844     Document Type: Article

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