Open AccessWords To Live By: Investigating Navajo Naming Practices
Author(s) -
Theodore J. Holland
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
names
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.2
H-Index - 12
eISSN - 1756-2279
pISSN - 0027-7738
DOI - 10.1179/nam.1995.43.4.275
Subject(s) - fieldnotes , navajo , raw data , exploratory research , process (computing) , computer science , psychology , linguistics , sociology , anthropology , ethnography , operating system , philosophy , programming language
The onomastic researcher who utilizes tape-recorded interviews as a source of information faces the immediate data management problems of how to process, organize, and reduce the rapidly proliferating accumulation of unorganized raw data afforded by interview transcripts and fieldnotes. THE ETHNOGRAPH®, a program for the computer-assisted analysis of text-based data, was a valuable aid in an exploratory study of Navajo naming practices.