The use of computers in anthropology / / ed. by Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Dell H. [ed] Hymes.

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics - <1990
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]
©1965
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
Series:Studies in General Anthropology ; 2
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Physical Description:1 online resource (558 p.) :; Num. figs.
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Table of Contents:
  • I-VI
  • PREFACE
  • INTRODUCTION
  • PART ONE STRUCTURE OF THE COMPUTER AND COMPUTER USE
  • I. COMPUTER STRUCTURE
  • AN ANTHROPOLOGIST’S INTRODUCTION TO THE COMPUTER
  • DISCUSSION I
  • II. MODES OF USE: GENERAL
  • A TYPOLOGY OF COMPUTER USES IN ANTHROPOLOGY
  • COMPUTER PROCESSING AND CULTURAL DATA: PROBLEMS OF METHOD
  • DISCUSSION II
  • III. MODES OF USE: SPECIFIC
  • COMPUTERS AND THE STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL INFORMATION
  • LINGUISTIC DATA PROCESSING
  • STATISTICAL PROCESSING
  • DISCUSSION III
  • PART TWO SPECIAL RESEARCH AREAS
  • IV. TEXT-ORIENTED
  • COMPUTERS AND LEXICOGRAPHY
  • DIACRITICAL AND STATISTICAL MODELS FOR LANGUAGES IN RELATION TO THE COMPUTER
  • THE COMPUTER AS A TOOL IN FOLKLORE RESEARCH
  • A METHODOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION OF CONTENT ANALYSIS USING ELECTRONIC COMPUTERS FOR DATA PROCESSING
  • DISCUSSION IV
  • V. CLASSIFICATION AND GROUPING
  • SURVEY OF NUMERICAL CLASSIFICATION IN ANTHROPOLOGY
  • COMPUTER METHODS FOR CLASSIFICATION AND GROUPING
  • AUTOMATIC CLASSIFICATION IN ANTHROPOLOGY
  • RECONSTRUCTING AN ECONOMIC NETWORK IN THE ANCIENT EAST WITH THE AID OF A COMPUTER
  • DISCUSSION V
  • VI. EXPERIMENTAL
  • SIMULATION: AN INTRODUCTION FOR ANTHROPOLOGISTS
  • THE COMPUTER AS A TOOL FOR THEORY DEVELOPMENT
  • REQUEST-ANSWER INTERACTION IN RELATION TO MAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION
  • SUGGESTIONS FOR ANTHROPOLOGY: THE MACHINE WHICH OBSERVES AND DESCRIBES
  • DISCUSSION VI
  • Appendix A PARTICIPANTS, AND PAPERS PREPARED FOR THE CONFERENCE
  • Appendix Β SOME CURRENT USES OF THE COMPUTER IN ANTHROPOLOGY
  • NAME INDEX
  • TOPICAL INDEX