%0 Book Section
%A Miu, Elena
%A Kline, Michelle
%A Pretelli, Ilaria
%A Rawlings, Bruce
%A Liebal, Katja
%A Lancy, David F.
%A Xu, Jing
%A Park, Heejung
%A Milks, Annemieke
%A Reide, Felix
%A Stengelin, Roman
%A Takada, Akira
%A Kärtner, Joscha
%+ Lise Meitner Research Group BirthRites - Cultures of Reproduction, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Max Planck Society
Department of Human Behavior Ecology and Culture, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Max Planck Society
Department of Comparative Cultural Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Max Planck Society
Department of Comparative Cultural Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Max Planck Society
%T Research methods: A collage : 
%G eng
%U https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0011-2A00-E
%R 10.11647/obp.0440.04
%D 2025
%* Review method: peer-reviewed
%X This chapter provides a non-comprehensive overview of the research methods used in cross-cultural studies of children. We present a collage of case studies and methods summaries that outline common practices and explore their theoretical, ethical, and practical implications. We first propose guidelines for dealing with issues of theoretical validity by showcasing the benefits of multi-methods perspectives for knowledge triangulation and introducing a design strategy for causal analysis. We cover practical organizational concerns pertinent to large cross-cultural studies. We then touch on ethical concerns and cover the value of long term cumulative study, revisiting old work from a non- western centric perspective, intersubjectivity and positionality, and include methods for sustainable and principled anthropology. Finally, we zoom in on methodological approaches used in cross-cultural work on children, summarizing the benefits and limitations of ethno-archaeological approaches, cross-cultural experiments, conversational analysis approaches, and standardized longitudinal assessments.
%B A Field Guide to Cross-Cultural Research on Childhood Learning: 
Theoretical, Methodological, Practical, and Ethical Considerations for an Interdisciplinary Field
%E Lew-Levy, Sheina; Asatsa, Stephen
%P 111 - 162
%I Open Book Publishers
%C Cambridge 
%@ 978-1-80511-467-3