Laura Fortunato from the Department of Anthropology at the University College London is writing to me telling about the Ethnographic Database Project. She is currently looking for anthropologists with fieldwork experience to take part in this project:
The Ethnographic Database Project (EDP) is a web-based tool for the collection of comparative ethnographic data. The EDP allows anthropologists to enter data about their field research using a set of standard codes developed for cross-cultural application; the codes relate to a society’s organization, kinship and marriage practices, subsistence economy, and pattern of sexual division of labor. The EDP is in the form of a web-based questionnaire, which can be accessed from any computer connected to the internet.
The EDP aims to complement widely-used comparative ethnographic datasets such as the Ethnographic Atlas and the Standard Cross-Cultural Sample by: (i) obtaining data directly from anthropologists who conducted field research in the societies of interest, (ii) using standard codes developed for cross-cultural application for all societies, (iii) expanding the range of societies for which coded ethnographic data are available.
Visit the EDP website where you also can view a sample version of the EDP.
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