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Alternative Anthropological Methodologies
Alternative Anthropology, in being systems-based, has come to be articulated with its own set of methodologies. These have been in part borrowed from research methodologies in the social and psychological sciences, and added to through adaptive innovation in the field.
A brief list of these methodologies include:
Ethnocultural research
Ethnoscientific and ethnosemantic research
Ethnographic research involving a multi-method approach
Existential & Phenomenological Ethnography & Biography
Media & Artifact Content Analysis
Symbolic Framing & Profiling
Socio-grid Analysis
Intercorrelational Analysis
Knowledge Systems Analysis and Simulation
Symbolic-Linguistic Analysis
Focus Group and Blackboarding
Heuristic Methodologies
We do not draw boundaries around applicable methodologies in the pursuit of human knowledge. We see a set of methods like a tool kit, designed for relatively specific or general purposes, more appropriate in some contexts and settings and less so in others. We see ourselves as being neither theory bound, method bound or data bound in our expectations or paradigms about human reality. The paradigm of human systems theory is meta-systemic in the sense that it steps beyond the conceptual and logical conundrums of ideology.
The links to the primary portals of this framework are found below:
