Anthropology and the social sciences - The foundations of social research - Preparing for research - The literature search - Research design : experiments and experimental thinking - Sampling - Sampling theory - Nonprobability sampling and choosing informants - Interviewing : unstructured and semistructured -- Structured interviewing I : questionnaires - Structured interviewing II : cultural domain analysis - Scales and scaling - Participant observation - Field notes: how to take them, code them, manage them - Direct and indirect observation - Introduction to qualitative and quantitative analysis - Qualitative data analysis I : text analysis - Qualitative data analysis II : models and matrices - Univariate analysis - Bivariate analysis : testing relations - Multivariate analysis