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birds, words, and a requiem for the omniscient informant 1
Author(s) -
GARDNER PETER M.
Publication year - 1976
Publication title -
american ethnologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.875
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1548-1425
pISSN - 0094-0496
DOI - 10.1525/ae.1976.3.3.02a00040
Subject(s) - variation (astronomy) , stratified sampling , sampling (signal processing) , modal , domain (mathematical analysis) , psychology , statistics , mathematics , computer science , physics , chemistry , astrophysics , mathematical analysis , filter (signal processing) , polymer chemistry , computer vision
Through the use of ethnosemantic elicitation procedures and stratified sampling, features of the variation in bird domain shape of forty‐five northern Dene adults are shown tentatively to be modal. An approach to the study of the causes of cognitive sharing is suggested .