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Ethnographic Decision Modeling

This module is still under construction. The below should be taken as a rough indicator of what will be covered.

 

Topics

  • Constructing decision models inductively

  • emic or etic?

Handouts

Articles & Books

  • 1980 A model of illness treatment decisions in a Tarascan town. American Ethnologist 7:106-151 [^PDF] 
  • Gladwin. Ethnographic decision modeling. Sage
  

Homework

Optional

  • Mathews and Hill. 1990 Applying cognitive decision theory to the study of regional patterns of illness treatment choice. American Anthropologist 91:155-170 [^PDF]
  • Ryan and Martinez. 1996 Can we predict what mothers do?: Modeling childhood diarrhea in rural Mexico. Human Organization 55(1):47-57
  • Weller, Susan C., Trenton K. Ruebush II and Robert E. Klein. 1997 Predicting treatment-seeking behavior in Guatemala: a comparison of the health services research and decision-theoretic approaches. Medical Anthropology Quarterly11(2):224-245 [^PDF]

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