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AnthroTools
Description
AnthroTools: Some custom tools for cultural anthropology.
Details
Package: AnthroTools
Type: Package
Version: 1.1
Date: 2025-17-1
License: GPL 2
Freelist Analysis
Freelist analysis allows you to collect answers to such questions as "What fruit can you think of?", and analyse what answers are most salient (come to mind first).
If you wish to do salience analysis, the most important function will be CalculateSalience, probably followed by SalienceByCode. For examples of the data structures the functions would like as input please look at FruitList, or generate fake data of your own using GenerateFakeFreeListData. FreeListTable is also a useful function.
If your data was previously prepared for Anthropac, then LoadFromAnthropac provides compatibility.
Consensus Analysis
Consensus analysis lets you collect a group's answers to multi choice questions (all related to a single topic). By first estimating the competence of each person, the method will than allow you to calculate the “consensus response”.
If you want to do consensus analysis, we recommend ConsensusPipeline. For examples of the data structures the functions would like as input please look at ConsensusTestData, or generate your own data using GenerateConsensusData
Triad Tests
Triad tests measure conceptual differences and similarities of word triplets. If you give it a list of words, the triad.gen function will produce a randomized block of triads for administration. The triad.test function will take your triad data and analyze it.
Cultural FST
Cultural FST is the proportion of between-group and total cultural variance of a particular trait. Higher CF_ST scores (i.e., trending toward 1) tell us that there is more between-group variation than within groups. Lower scores (i.e., trending toward 0) tell us that the variation lies more within groups. For a quick FST calculator, use the cultFST function. To produce a cross-group FST matrix, use the fstmatrix function
Author(s)
Alastair Jamieson Lane. <aja107@math.ubc.ca> Benjamin Grant Purzycki. <bgpurzycki@cas.au.dk>
References
Oravecz, Z., Vandekerckhove, J., & Batchelder, W. H. (2014). Bayesian Cultural Consensus Theory. Field Methods, 1525822X13520280. http://doi.org/10.1177/1525822X13520280
Romney, A. K., Weller, S. C., & Batchelder, W. H. (1986). Culture as Consensus: A Theory of Culture and Informant Accuracy. American Anthropologist, 88(2), 313-338.
Smith, J. J., & Borgatti, S. P. (1997). Salience Counts-And So Does Accuracy: Correcting and Updating a Measure for Free-List-Item Salience. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 7(2), 208-209. http://doi.org/10.1525/jlin.1997.7.2.208
Smith, J. J., Furbee, L., Maynard, K., Quick, S., & Ross, L. (1995). Salience Counts: A Domain Analysis of English Color Terms. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 5(2), 203-216. http://doi.org/10.1525/jlin.1995.5.2.203.
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AnthroTools
Description
AnthroTools: Some custom tools for cultural anthropology.
Details
| Package: | AnthroTools |
| Type: | Package |
| Version: | 1.1 |
| Date: | 2025-17-1 |
| License: | GPL 2 |
Freelist Analysis
Freelist analysis allows you to collect answers to such questions as "What fruit can you think of?", and analyse what answers are most salient (come to mind first).
If you wish to do salience analysis, the most important function will be CalculateSalience, probably followed by SalienceByCode. For examples of the data structures the functions would like as input please look at FruitList, or generate fake data of your own using GenerateFakeFreeListData. FreeListTable is also a useful function.
If your data was previously prepared for Anthropac, then LoadFromAnthropac provides compatibility.
Consensus Analysis
Consensus analysis lets you collect a group's answers to multi choice questions (all related to a single topic). By first estimating the competence of each person, the method will than allow you to calculate the “consensus response”.
If you want to do consensus analysis, we recommend ConsensusPipeline. For examples of the data structures the functions would like as input please look at ConsensusTestData, or generate your own data using GenerateConsensusData
Triad Tests
Triad tests measure conceptual differences and similarities of word triplets. If you give it a list of words, the triad.gen function will produce a randomized block of triads for administration. The triad.test function will take your triad data and analyze it.
Cultural FST
Cultural FST is the proportion of between-group and total cultural variance of a particular trait. Higher CF_ST scores (i.e., trending toward 1) tell us that there is more between-group variation than within groups. Lower scores (i.e., trending toward 0) tell us that the variation lies more within groups. For a quick FST calculator, use the cultFST function. To produce a cross-group FST matrix, use the fstmatrix function
Author(s)
Alastair Jamieson Lane. <aja107@math.ubc.ca> Benjamin Grant Purzycki. <bgpurzycki@cas.au.dk>
References
Oravecz, Z., Vandekerckhove, J., & Batchelder, W. H. (2014). Bayesian Cultural Consensus Theory. Field Methods, 1525822X13520280. http://doi.org/10.1177/1525822X13520280
Romney, A. K., Weller, S. C., & Batchelder, W. H. (1986). Culture as Consensus: A Theory of Culture and Informant Accuracy. American Anthropologist, 88(2), 313-338.
Smith, J. J., & Borgatti, S. P. (1997). Salience Counts-And So Does Accuracy: Correcting and Updating a Measure for Free-List-Item Salience. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 7(2), 208-209. http://doi.org/10.1525/jlin.1997.7.2.208
Smith, J. J., Furbee, L., Maynard, K., Quick, S., & Ross, L. (1995). Salience Counts: A Domain Analysis of English Color Terms. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 5(2), 203-216. http://doi.org/10.1525/jlin.1995.5.2.203.
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