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Khanty, People of the Taiga

Surviving the 20th Century

By: Andrew Wiget,Olga Balalaeva

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Khanty, People of the Taiga

Surviving the 20th Century

By: Andrew Wiget,Olga Balalaeva

Drawing on nearly twenty years of fieldwork, as well as ethnohistory, politics, and economics, this volume takes a close look at changes in the lives of the indigenous Siberian Khanty people and draws crucial connections between those changes and the social, cultural, and political transformation that swept Russia during the transition to democracy. Delving deeply into the history of the Khanty—who were almost completely isolated prior to the Russian revolution—the authors show how the customs, traditions, and knowledge of indigenous people interact with and are threatened by events in the larger world.

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University of Alaska Press

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1602231257

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Formal Modeling in Social Science

By: Carol Mershon,Olga Shvetsova

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Formal Modeling in Social Science

By: Carol Mershon,Olga Shvetsova

A formal model in the social sciences builds explanations when it structures the reasoning underlying a theoretical argument, opens venues for controlled experimentation, and can lead to hypotheses. Yet more importantly, models evaluate theory, build theory, and enhance conjectures. Formal Modeling in Social Science addresses the varied helpful roles of formal models and goes further to take up more fundamental considerations of epistemology and methodology. The authors integrate the exposition of the epistemology and the methodology of modeling and argue that these two reinforce each other. They illustrate the process of designing an original model suited to the puzzle at hand, using multiple methods in diverse substantive areas of inquiry. The authors also emphasize the crucial, though underappreciated, role of a narrative in the progression from theory to model. Transparency of assumptions and steps in a model means that any analyst will reach equivalent predictions whenever she replicates the argument. Hence, models enable theoretical replication, essential in the accumulation of knowledge. Formal Modeling in Social Science speaks to scholars in different career stages and disciplines and with varying expertise in modeling.

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University of Michigan Press

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0472054236

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9780472054237

Khanty, People of the Taiga

Surviving the 20th Century

By: Andrew Wiget,Olga Balalaeva

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Surviving the 20th Century

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Khanty, People of the Taiga

Khanty, People of the Taiga

Formal Modeling in Social Science

Formal Modeling in Social Science

Khanty, People of the Taiga

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