Qualitative analysis in cultural anthropology is often viewed as burdened with the special requirement that it produce units of description, measurement, and comparison that embody the conceptions of the society under study. The nature and extent of this requirement varies, with some interpretive methodologies seeking to place subject conceptions among the most fundamental in the inquirer's analytic framework. Others make interpretation less methodologically pivotal, but it is generally rare that anthropologists will not mold the character of some units of analysis partly on the basis of translation of the source language.