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"The suggestion of 'standard monographs' has been tried with some 

 success, e.g. Beatrice B. and John M. Whiting's six cultures study of 

 child-rearing practices. Typically, however, anthropological monographs 

 tend to be very diverse and reflect as much about the individual 

 fieldworkers and their backgrounds as they do about the communities 

 studied. Getting comparable monographs could be a problem. The 

 study design would have to be carefully worked out in advance, and 

 investigators would have to be in continual contact during the course 

 of the study." 



— from Courtland L. Smith, Assoc. Professor 

 Department of Anthropology 

 Oregon State University 

 November 30, 1976 



"I disagree strongly with (the) discussion of baseline 

 ethnographic studies. We do need quantitative demographic, social and 

 economic data on a large sample of fishermen and fishing ports. Much 

 of this can be collected by questionnaire, but first the qualitative 

 information needs to be collected so that we have some idea of the 

 importance of the quantitative material. Ten to fifteen community 

 studies in the U.S. in NOT adequate. A small community study in 

 Maine paired with a large port study in Massachusetts or Rhode Island 

 wouldn't tell one anything useful from which generalizations could be 

 made." 



— from Susan B. Peterson, Research Assoc. 



Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution 

 November 10, 1976 



