COMPUTER PROCESSING AND CULTURAL DATA: PROBLEMS OF METHOD

Chapters in this book

1. I-VI I
2. PREFACE 7
3. INTRODUCTION 15
4. PART ONE STRUCTURE OF THE COMPUTER AND COMPUTER USE
5. I. COMPUTER STRUCTURE
6. AN ANTHROPOLOGIST’S INTRODUCTION TO THE COMPUTER 37
7. DISCUSSION I 91
8. II. MODES OF USE: GENERAL
9. A TYPOLOGY OF COMPUTER USES IN ANTHROPOLOGY 103
10. COMPUTER PROCESSING AND CULTURAL DATA: PROBLEMS OF METHOD 119
11. DISCUSSION II 141
12. III. MODES OF USE: SPECIFIC
13. COMPUTERS AND THE STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL INFORMATION 145
14. LINGUISTIC DATA PROCESSING 159
15. STATISTICAL PROCESSING 189
16. DISCUSSION III 205
17. PART TWO SPECIAL RESEARCH AREAS
18. IV. TEXT-ORIENTED
19. COMPUTERS AND LEXICOGRAPHY 215
20. DIACRITICAL AND STATISTICAL MODELS FOR LANGUAGES IN RELATION TO THE COMPUTER 235
21. THE COMPUTER AS A TOOL IN FOLKLORE RESEARCH 255
22. A METHODOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION OF CONTENT ANALYSIS USING ELECTRONIC COMPUTERS FOR DATA PROCESSING 273
23. DISCUSSION IV 295
24. V. CLASSIFICATION AND GROUPING
25. SURVEY OF NUMERICAL CLASSIFICATION IN ANTHROPOLOGY 301
26. COMPUTER METHODS FOR CLASSIFICATION AND GROUPING 345
27. AUTOMATIC CLASSIFICATION IN ANTHROPOLOGY 357
28. RECONSTRUCTING AN ECONOMIC NETWORK IN THE ANCIENT EAST WITH THE AID OF A COMPUTER 377
29. DISCUSSION V 393
30. VI. EXPERIMENTAL
31. SIMULATION: AN INTRODUCTION FOR ANTHROPOLOGISTS 401
32. THE COMPUTER AS A TOOL FOR THEORY DEVELOPMENT 427
33. REQUEST-ANSWER INTERACTION IN RELATION TO MAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION 449
34. SUGGESTIONS FOR ANTHROPOLOGY: THE MACHINE WHICH OBSERVES AND DESCRIBES 465
35. DISCUSSION VI 501
36. Appendix A PARTICIPANTS, AND PAPERS PREPARED FOR THE CONFERENCE 505
37. Appendix Β SOME CURRENT USES OF THE COMPUTER IN ANTHROPOLOGY 507
38. NAME INDEX 529
39. TOPICAL INDEX 538