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Islands of Order : a Guide to Complexity Modeling for the Social Sciences /
Over the past two decades, anthropologist J. Stephen Lansing and geneticist Murray Cox have explored dozens of villages on the islands of the Malay Archipelago, combining ethnographic research with research into genetic and linguistic markers to shed light on how these societies change over time. Is...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[2019]
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| Colección: | Princeton studies in complexity.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Foreword: The Malay Archipelago Revisited by Michael R. Dove; Preface; 1. Models of Change; A point of departure; The origins of order; A clock that keeps good time; Neutral drift; Nonlinear systems; Triggers for nonlinear transitions; Complex adaptive systems; Discovering islands of order; Conclusion; 2. Discovering Austronesia; Introduction; Dubois' remarkable discovery; The first migration of modern humans; The second migration: Austronesians; Surprises in the data; The toolkits: Population genetics and kinship
- The implications of matrilocalityFirst model: Sex bias and language replacement; Why the barrier in Wallacea?; Second model: Demographic skew; Generations of butterfly effects; Conclusion; 3. Dominance, Selection, and Neutrality; Introduction; Selection for dominance?; The meek shall inherit. . .; Neutral tests and the neutral theory: From genetics to ecology; Transience and time scales: Baby names; Transience and time scales: Potsherds and archaeology; Conclusion; 4. Language and Kinship in Deep Time; Return to Wehali; Cophylogenies of languages and genes; The implications of host switching
- Kinship and language transmissionLanguage and kinship in deep time; Zooming in to the community scale; Conclusion; 5. Islands of Cooperation; Prelude: How Bali became Bali; Introduction; Terracing volcanoes; Ecology of the rice terraces; A cooperation game; Testing the game-theoretical model; An agent-based model of the coupled system; Conclusion; 6. Adaptive Self-Organized Criticality; Mosaics and power laws; Universal Bali: A lattice model; Results of the lattice model; Comparison with satellite imagery; Why power laws?; Conclusion; 7. Transition Paths; Introduction; Does age matter?
- A pilot study of cooperationResults of the pilot study; Exploring differences in regimes; Conclusion; 8. From the Other Shore; Revisiting the Austronesian expansion; The protosystem and the structural core; Phase portraits; Sex and power, revisited; Reflections on stone boats; Emergence of a new synchronic whole in Bali; Afterword; Appendix A. Correlation Functions; Appendix B. Game and Lattice Models; Appendix C. Intra- and Intersubak Coordination of Irrigation; Appendix D. Fisher Information; Appendix E. Energy Landscape Analysis; Appendix F. Survey Questions Used in Chapter 7; Index