Measuring Cultural Consonance: Examples with Special Reference to Measurement Theory in Anthropology

Field Methods

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 331-355

  Dressler, William W ^a   Borges, Camila D ^b   Balieiro, Mauro C ^c   Dos Santos, José Ernesto ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c Albuquerque   (United States)

Author keywords

cultural consensus analysis; cultural consonance; cultural models; measurement theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 19444369976     PISSN: 1525822X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1525822X05279899     Document Type: Article

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