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The entangled problems of selection of data, data patterning, and conceptual organization are discussed. The focus is on how various explicit (and implicit) postulates in the area of anthropological comparative analysis have guided various appreciations of data patterning. The spatial‐temporal framework is (1) the cross‐ cultural data and (2) the diverse theoretical patterning of these data. The article attempts to go beyond the legacy of logical positivism to unscoring what Norwood Russell Hanson has referred to as the “theory‐laden undertaking” of observation. Knowledge and understanding at the “frontiers” are viewed as conceptual analysis, criticism of criteria, and revision of methods and ideas.
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