Navajos and Energy Development: Economic Decision Making Under Political Uncertainty

Schoepfle, Mark; Burton, Michael L.; Morgan, Frank

doi:10.17730/humo.43.3.d682555726827052

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“…1993a), as well as potential barriers to breastfeeding, such as the notion that women gain weight when nursing, which might not have emerged had more structured methods been used. Thus, these interviews identified culturally specific hypotheses about factors related to infant feeding behaviors which could be tested quantitatively (Schoepfle et al 1984), as well as appropriate wording and structuring of questions. However, simply because a certain factor is widely perceived as influencing feeding behavior does not mean that the factor is associated with actual behavior.…”

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“…Interviewers began with a general description of the research problem and avoided questions that would overly structure the response (cf. Schoepfle et al 1984). In that way, subsequent questions could be generated from specific terms and situations that arose naturally from the respondent's own descriptive text.…”

Section: Phase I: Ethnographic Interviews and Development Of Preliminmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Integrating Qualitative and Quantitative Methods to Model Infant Feeding Behavior among Navajo Mothers

Bauer¹,

Wright²

1996

Human Organization

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Anthropologists have long discussed the value and limitations of various methods of describing and understanding behavior. This article demonstrates that utilizing both quantitative and qualitative methods can improve our understanding of complex behaviors. Ethnographic interviews were used to create a decision tree model of the choice of breastfeeding or formula feeding for Navajo women. This preliminary model was tested with reference to the initial feeding decisions of 250 post-partum women. Errors in the model and statistical analysis of correlates of feeding behavior were used to improve the decision model, which was subsequently tested on a new sample of 52 mothers. The final model accurately predicted the initial infant feeding behavior of 96% of women in the new sample. This combination of techniques proved useful in developing a breastfeeding promotion program which targeted specific groups for education and addressed local concerns and perceptions.

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Section: Phase I: Ethnographic Interviews and Development Of Preliminmentioning

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Integrating Qualitative and Quantitative Methods to Model Infant Feeding Behavior among Navajo Mothers

Bauer¹,

Wright²

1996

Human Organization

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“…Still others focused on impacts of harnessing various forms of energy on indigenous peoples (Johnston et.al. 2007, Schoepfle 1984, noted by Howe 2015, Strauss et al 2013. A few anthropologists examined the impoverishing impact of involuntary resettlement for hydropower and other energy infrastructure construction.…”

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Interrogating Power: Engaged Energy Anthropology

Clarke¹

2015

Reviews in Anthropology

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Human-induced global threats are compelling many anthropologists to rethink roles, methods, and paradigms and engage in public debate and action on energy policies, extraction processes, commodity chains, and consumption. Laura Nader's Energy Reader embodies her decades-long engagement as a catalyst for public debate on US energy issues. Tanja Winther's Impact of Electricity exemplifies ethnography informing development practice. Strauss and colleagues' Cultures of Energy reflects diverse approaches seeking to build cultural understandings to inform energy choices. There remains a need for collaboration with anthropologists embedded in energy-related agencies-positioned where they can leverage anthropological knowledge to push policy envelopes.

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“…Repertory grid analysis (Zaltman, 1987;Reger and Huff, 1993), hierarchical categorization analysis (Porac and Thomas, 1987) and sociocognitive network analysis (Frankwick et a/., 1994) have also been useful for investigating other aspects of organizational processes. Cognitive cthnographies provide a nlore in-depth exploration than provided by traditional interviews or other ficld work, but have had only limited use within the business domain (Schoepfle et al, 1984;Baba, 1988).…”

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A new direction for strategic alliance research in marketing: organizational cognition

Noble¹,

Stafford²,

Reger³

1995

Journal of Strategic Marketing

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For marketers and other strategists, the importance of strategic alliances is increasing in both research and practice. Despite frequent considerations of the potential benefits of these interorganizational relationships in both domestic and international markets, alliances have often failed to live up to expectations in practice. Traditional research paradigms have provided few meaningful insights into the causes of success and failure. In this paper, we propose that research using an organizational cognition perspective can provide valuable insights into alliance development and management. We derive important alliance research questions and draw from a wide range of cognitive methodologies to suggest specific directions for future research.

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Navajos and Energy Development: Economic Decision Making Under Political Uncertainty

Cited by 9 publications

References 3 publications

Integrating Qualitative and Quantitative Methods to Model Infant Feeding Behavior among Navajo Mothers

Integrating Qualitative and Quantitative Methods to Model Infant Feeding Behavior among Navajo Mothers

Interrogating Power: Engaged Energy Anthropology

A new direction for strategic alliance research in marketing: organizational cognition

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