Meaning in the Miscellany of a Cultural Domain. Issue 4 (November 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Souleles, Daniel
• Is Part Of: Field methods. Volume 30:Issue 4(2018)
• Page Start: 345
• Page End: 356
• Publication Date: 2018-11
• Subjects: Ethnology -- Methodology -- Periodicals; Anthropology -- Methodology -- Periodicals; Anthropologie -- Méthodologie -- Périodiques; 306.072
• DOI: 10.1177/1525822X18781822
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1525-822X

Abstract

This article compares pile sort data from frequently occurring items in a cultural domain with pile sort data on infrequently occurring items in that same cultural domain. Common practice in free-list analysis has a researcher discard infrequently occurring list items. This article confirms this practice and suggests that there is an underlying structure to both frequently and infrequently occurring list items.