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amanthro-research-design
GitHub用于辩护人类学论文的研究设计，涵盖民族志、档案、生物及多模态方法。强调逻辑自洽、反身性与伦理，通过对抗最强 rival reading 验证证据效力，强化论证而非执行研究。
Trigger Scenarios
指定田野调查、抽样或实验室设计时
审稿人质疑证据或推论时
规划知情同意与社区责任时
需证明证据能裁决竞争性理论时
Install
npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill amanthro-research-design -g -y
SKILL.md
Frontmatter
{
"name": "amanthro-research-design",
"description": "Use when defending the research design of an American Anthropologist (AA) manuscript — fieldwork and participant observation, interview and archival design for ethnographic\/qualitative work, material\/contextual analysis for archaeology, and appropriate lab\/quantitative design for biological anthropology. AA judges each mode on its own terms with reflexivity. Strengthens the design; it does not write code or run fieldwork."
}
Research Design (amanthro-research-design)
AA accepts many methodologies but is demanding about each. The design must credibly connect the
argument (amanthro-theory-building) to evidence — and at AA, ethnographic and qualitative inference
is first-class, not a soft substitute for statistics. This skill is mode-aware: pick the section that
matches your work and defend it against the strongest alternative reading, reflexively and ethically.
When to trigger
- Specifying fieldwork, sampling of sites/interlocutors, archive or material selection, or lab design
- A reviewer questioned your evidence, generalization, confound, or interpretive leap
- Planning consent, anonymization, and community accountability into the design
- Justifying why your evidence adjudicates the rival reading from
amanthro-literature-positioning
Ethnographic / qualitative (first-class at AA)
- Fieldwork design. State the site(s), duration, language(s) of work, and your access — and how each shaped what was observable. Participant observation is a method with a logic, not just "being there"; say what kinds of evidence it generates.
- Sampling of cases/interlocutors justified by design logic (typical, deviant, contrastive, theoretically driven), not convenience. Say what the case is a case of.
- Triangulation & disconfirmation. Corroborate across observation, interviews, documents, and material; state what evidence would have disconfirmed the reading (the qualitative analogue of a falsification test).
- Reflexivity. Your positionality is part of the design's validity — name how it bears on access
and interpretation (see
amanthro-theory-building).
Archival / material analysis
- Justify the archive or assemblage selected, its silences and biases, and how you read against the grain. For archaeology: provenience, sampling, dating logic, comparative frames, and taphonomic caveats.
Biological / physical anthropology (quantitative/lab)
- State the estimand or comparison, sampling frame, measurement protocol, and replication.
- Report power/sample adequacy; pre-register where appropriate; address batch/lab effects, ancestry
vs. social-race conflation, and ethical sourcing of skeletal/genetic/biological samples
(see
amanthro-transparency-and-datafor repatriation and consent).
Multimodal / participatory design
- If image/sound/film is evidence, design capture and consent for media from the start; participatory and collaborative designs name how community partners shaped questions and authority over outputs.
The adjudication test (AA-specific)
For the single strongest rival reading, write one sentence: "If the rival account were right rather than mine, the evidence would look like ___; instead it looks like ___." If you cannot, the design does not yet identify the contribution — regardless of how rich the material is.
Anti-patterns
- "Being there" treated as self-justifying — participant observation without a stated evidentiary logic
- Convenience site/interlocutor selection dressed up as theory-driven
- Causal or generalizing language an ethnographic design cannot support (and vice versa: dismissing qualitative evidence as merely anecdotal)
- Biological "race" treated as a natural kind; ancestry conflated with social race
- Consent, anonymization, or heritage obligations left out of the design (see
amanthro-transparency-and-data) - A design that cannot distinguish your reading from the leading alternative
Output format
【Mode】ethnographic / archival-material / biological-quant / multimodal-participatory
【Evidence base】sites/interlocutors/assemblage/sample + how selected
【Key assumption(s)】and how each is defended (incl. reflexivity)
【Rival ruled out】the adjudication sentence
【Disconfirmation】what would have shown you wrong
【Ethics designed in】consent / anonymization / accountability flagged? [Y/N]
【Next】amanthro-data-analysis
Supplementary resources
../../resources/external_tools.md— CAQDAS, archival tools, and lab/quant packages by subfield../../resources/official-source-map.md— AA scope and ethics/transparency notes
Version History
- 1839142 Current 2026-07-05 12:18
