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Introduction: Configuring Anthropology

Michael D. Fischer

University of Kent, m.d.fischer{at}kent.ac.uk

The authors present examples of how anthropologists are presently using computers to advance ethnographic research in new directions while building on what has come before. All the methods, protocols, and tools created by the authors are free, open source, and available on the Internet. The contributions are the authors’ attempts to address greater complexity through greater control over the data and structures within which anthropologists work. These methods are suitable to a large number of problems, basic and applied, across the range of anthropology from its humanities axis to its science axis. Anthropology is what anthropologists make of it, and each author is attempting to make a little bit more of anthropology and to configure anthropology for addressing old problems in new ways and positioning anthropology to address new problems and new opportunities to influence others through anthropology.

Key Words: kinship • agent-based modeling • high fidelity • ethnographic research • mathematical anthropology

Social Science Computer Review, Vol. 24, No. 1, 3-14 (2006)
DOI: 10.1177/0894439305282575
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