Southwestern Madagascar Markers Study, 2019 (ICPSR 38148)
Version Date: May 25, 2022 View help for published
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Bram Tucker, University of Georgia
https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR38148.v1
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This study is about ethnic markers in Southwestern Madagascar in 2019. It includes Norms and Experiments datasets. The survey for the Norms data included questions about social organization and gender, subsistence knowledge, supernatural knowledge, and taboos. The collection for Experiments data is about four photo sorting experiments. The purpose of the experiments was to discover whether Masikoro, Mikea, and Vezo people can tell one another apart according to their dress, and to discover whether they prefer to cooperate with those of their same ethnicity.
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village
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These data and analysis files correspond to a study of ethnic markers in Southwestern Madagascar, conducted by Bram Tucker, Tsiazonera, Jaovola Tombo, Patricia Hajasoa, Soanahary Gérard, and Rolland Lahiniriko, Angelah Halatiana Garçon in 2019, as organized an analyzed by Erik Ringen. A manuscript based on these analyses has been submitted to the journal Human Nature, entitled, "Ethnic markers without ethnic conflict: Why do interdependent Masikoro, Mikea, and Vezo of Madagascar signal their ethnic differences?"
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For more information about the variable "NAME" (Question name), see PI questionnaire document.
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The purpose of the experiments was to discover whether Masikoro, Mikea, and Vezo people can tell one another apart according to their dress, and to discover whether they prefer to cooperate with those of their same ethnicity.
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Two versions of a questionnaire were constructed (version A and version B) and administered in two Masikoro villages (Antaimbalabo and Tsiloakarivo), two Mikea communities (Bevondrorano and the Namonte Basin habitations), and two Vezo villages (Beangolo and Ampasilava). The questionnaire was administered to 25 adults per version per site, or 150 per version for the Norm dataset 1. Questions covered many domains: social organization and gender, subsistence knowledge, supernatural knowledge, and taboos.
One hundred and seventy eight adults in six villages were asked to classify photos of unfamiliar southwestern Malagasy people by either ethnicity (experiments 1-3), or by with whom they would, or would not, choose to cooperate (experiment 4). These data make up the Experiments dataset 2.
Please see the PI's codebooks for more detailed information for both datasets.
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