Description - Applications in Computing for Social Anthropologists by Michael Fischer
As increasing numbers of social anthropologists use computers for wordprocessing, interest in other applications inevitably follows. Applications in Computing for Social Anthropologists addresses this interest and encourages researchers to make full use of their computers to help them organize data. Firstly, the author discusses computing applications in relation to research activities shared by all anthropologists - ethnographic fieldwork, management and analysis of footnotes and the use of visual and aural material. The book then illustrates the way in which computer-based representations can satisfy the requirements of anthropological methods with a detailed examination of representing kinship relations in an original way. Nal developments in the representation of visual and aural data on computers as well as possible applications of knowledge based models are also introduced. Written in a clear and sympathetic style, Michael computing applications in a form suitable for tackling the problems currently faced by social anthropologists. provides an excellent resource which contextualizes
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