References for ethnographic decision modeling
*=critiques of the approach

by Gery Ryan

• Auerbach, Liesa Stamm
  • 1982 Children in Tunisia: Implications of a decision-making model. Social Science & Medicine 16:1499-1506.
• Bauer, Mark C. and Anne L. Wright
  • 1996 Integrating qualitative and quantitative methods to model infant feeding behavior among navajo mothers. Human Organization 55(2):183-192.
• Chibnick, Michael
  • *1980 Working out or working in: the choice between wage labor and cash cropping in rural Belize. American Ethnologist 4:285-307.
• Garro, Linda C.
  • 1982 The ethnography of health care decisions. Social Science & Medicine 16:1451-1452.
  • 1986 Decision making models of treatment choice. In In illness behavior: A multidisciplinary model S. McHugh and T. M. Vallis, eds. Pp. 173-188. New York: Plenum Press.
  • *1998 On the rationality of decision-making studies: Part 1: Decision models of treatment choice. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 12(3):319-340.
  • *1998 On the rationality of decision-making studies: Prt 2: Divergent rationalities. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 12(3):341-355.
• Gatewood, John B.
  • 1984 Cooperation, competition, and synergy: Information-sharing groups among Southeast Alaskan salmon seiners. American Ethnologist 11(2):350-370.
  • 1983 Deciding where to fish: the skipper's dilemma in southeast Alaska's salmon seining. Coastal Zone Management Journal 10:347-367.
• Gatewood, John B. and Pamela M. Mace
  • 1990 Hard work versus patience: Simulation of fishing strategies in Nova Scotian Herring purse seining. Journal of Quantitative Anthropology 2:329-352.
• Gladwin, Christina
  • 1976 A view of the plan Puebla: an appplication of hierarchical decision models. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 58:881-887.
  • 1989 Ethnographic decision tree modeling. Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications.
• Gladwin, Hugh
  • 1971 decision making in the Cape Coast (Fante) fishing and fish marketing system, Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Stanford University.
• Harris, Marvin
  • *1975 Why a perfect knowledge of all the rules that one must know in order to act like a native cannot lead to a knowledge of how natives act. Journal of Anthropological Research 30:242-251.
• Hurwicz, Margo-Lea
  • 1995 Physicians' norms and health care decisions of elderly medicare recipients. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 9(2):211-235.
• Izquierdo, Carolina
  • 1995 The illness experience: Health care choices among Mapuche living in Santiago. Master of Arts Thesis, University of California, Los Angeles.
• Johnson, Allen W.
  • 1980 The limits of formalism in agricultural decision research. In Agricultural Decision Making: Anthropolgical Contributions to Rural Development P. F. Barlett, ed. Pp. 19-44. Orlando, Florida: Academic Press, Inc.
• Kayser-Jones, Jeanie
  • 1995 Decision making in the treatment of acute illness in nursing homes: framing the decision problem, treatment plan, and outcome. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 9(2):236-256.
• *Mathews, Holly F. \
  • 1982 Illness classification and treatment choice: decision making in the medical domain. Reviews in Anthropology 9:171-186.
  • 1987 Predicting decision outcomes: have we put the cart before the horse in anthropological studies of decision making. Human Organization 46(1):54-61.
• Mathews, Holly F. and Carole Hill
  • 1990 Applying cognitive decision theory to the study of regional patterns of illness treatment choice. American Anthropologist 91:155-170.
• Mingers, J.
  • 1989 An empirical comparison of pruning methods for decision tree induction. Machine Learning 4:227-243.
  • 1989 An empirical comparison of selection measures for decision-tree induction. Machine Learning 3:319-342.
• Quinlan, J. R.
  • 1988 Simplifying decision trees. In Knowledge Acquisition for Knowledge-Based Systems V. R. Gaines and J. H. Boose, eds. Pp. 241-254. New York: Academic Press.
• Quinn, Naomi
  • 1978 Do Mfantse fish sellers estimate probabilities in their heads? American Ethnologist 5:206-226.
• Ryan, Gery and Homero Martínez
  • 1996 Can we predict what mothers do?: Modeling childhood diarrhea in rural Mexico. Human Organization 55(1):47-57.
• Schank, R. and Robert Abelson
  • 1977 Scripts, plans, goals and understanding: an inquiry into human knowledge structures. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
• Schoepfle, G. Mark, Michael L. Burton and F. Morgan
  • 1984 Navajos and energy development: Economic decision making under political uncertainty. Human Organization 3:265-276.
• Schoepfle, Mark, Michael L. Burton and Kenneth Begishe
  • 1984 Navajo attitudes toward development and change: A unified ethnographic and survey approach to an understanding of their future. American Anthropologist 86:885-904.
• Stoner, Bradley P.
  • *1985 Formal modeling of health care decisions: some applications and limitations. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 16(2):41-46.
• Weller, Susan C., Trenton K. Ruebush II and Robert E. Klein
  • *1997 Predicting treatment-seeking behavior in Guatemala: a comparison of the health services research and decision-theoretic approaches. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 11(2):224-245.
• Werner, Oswald
  • 1997 Short Take 22: Converting decision tables to flow charts with DTREDUCER. Cultural Anthropology Methods Journal 9(2):17-20.
• Young, Allan
  • *1981 When rational men fall sick: an inquiry into some assumptions made by medical anthropologists. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry 5:317-335.
• Young, James C.
  • 1980 A model of illness treatment decisions in a Tarascan town. American Ethnologist 7:106-151.
  • 1981 Medical choice in a Mexican village. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
  • 1981 Non-use of physicians: Methodological approaches, policy implications, and the utility of decision models. Social Science & Medicine 15B:499-507.