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KAES: Kinship Algebra Expert System
- Behrens, Clifford A. and Dwight W. Read 1993 Anthropology: Moving from Task-driven to Science-driven Computing Social Science Computer Review, Vol. 11, No. 4, 429-451. DOI: 10.1177/089443939301100403
- Bennardo, Giovanni, Read, Dwight W. 2005 Tongan Kinship Terminology: Insights from an Algebraic Analysis
- Read, Dwight W. 2009. Papers in Springer volume
- Read, Dwight W. 2008 (2007) "Kinship theory: A paradigm shift." Ethnology 46(4):329-365: An international journal of cultural and social anthropology, ISSN 0014-1828. Abstract: Despite the centrality of kinship in anthropological theorizing about human social systems, a satisfactory account for the conceptual basis of kin relations expressed in the form of kinship terminologies has only recently been worked out. The prior, long-standing assumption has been that the kin terms making up a kinship terminology have primary meaning as semantic labels for a classification of positions in an ego-centric, genealogical space and secondary meaning arising through metaphorical extensions. This assumption, however, runs counter to ethnographic observations regarding the way kin relations are calculated and leaves unexplained precisely what needs to be explained, namely the particular kin relations identified in a kinship terminology and the reasons underlying differences in the way the domain of kin relations is constituted when one compares one kinship terminology with another terminology. The received view of kinship terminologies as being derived from a genealogical domain has erred by not recognizing that a kinship terminology is a culturally constructed system of concepts with an underlying generative structure that determines the genealogical distinctions associated with kin terms and not the reverse. Analysis of the logic underlying the generative structure of kinship terminologies makes evident commonality across terminologies regarding the way the domain of kin relations is constituted and allows us to account for differences in properties of kinship terminologies by referring to this logical basis for the generation of a particular terminology. More broadly, the paradigm shift introduced by the discovery that kinship terminologies have an underlying generative structure leads to a far richer and more encompassing understanding of what is entailed by considering kinship in human societies to be based on a system of culturally constructed kin relations.
- Read, Dwight W. 2008a. A Formal Explanation of Formal Explanation Structure and Dynamics: eJournal of Anthropological and Related Sciences 3(2): Article 4.
- Read, Dwight W. 2008b. KAES: Kinship Algebra Expert System - Java program KAES: Kinship Algebra Expert System. Once you download the program, right click the *.jar file and Open with/Java.
- Read, Dwight W. 2006. Kinship Algebra Expert System (KAES): A Software Implementation of a Cultural Theory. Social Science Computer Review 24(1): 43-67.
- Read, Dwight W. 2003. A Kinship Parable. Human Complex Systems. eRepository Paper DWR2007
- Read, Dwight W. 2001. What is kinship? in The cultural analysis of kinship: The legacy of David M. Schneider and its implications for cultural relativism. Edited by R. Feinberg and M. Ottenheimer, pp. 78-117. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
- Read, Dwight W. 2000. Formal analysis of kinship terminologies and its relationship to what constitutes kinship, in Mathematical Anthropology and Cultural Theory, vol. 1.
- Read, Dwight W. 1984. An algebraic account of the American kinship terminology. Current Anthropology 25:417-440.
- Read, Dwight W. 1974. “Kinship algebra: A mathematical study of kinship structure,” in Genealogical Mathematics. Edited by P. Ballonoff, pp. 135-160.
- Read, Dwight W. & Michael Fischer. 2004. Kinship Algebra Expert System. Canterbury: Centre for Social Anthropology and Computing.
- Read, Dwight W. 2009. From Empirical Networks to Cultural Concept Formation: The Case of Kinship Systems Insna Conference 2009 Kinship papers
[edit] Archaeology
- Read, Dwight W. 1990. "The utility of mathematical constructs in building archaeological theory," in
Mathematics and information science in archaeology. Edited by A. Voorrips, pp. 29-60. Bonn: Helos.
- Read, Dwight W. 1989. Group structure, group decision making and conflict at /xai/xai waterhole. Unpublished Manuscript.
[edit] Innovation
- Lane, David, Robert Maxfield, Dwight Read and Sander van der Leeuw "From population to organization thinking" Ch. 1 in 2009 Papers in Springer volume
- Read, Dwight, David Lane and Sander van der Leeuw The innovation innovation, Ch. 2 in 2009 Papers in Springer volume
- van der Leeuw, Lane and Read, "The long-term evolution of social organization" Ch. 3 in 2009 Papers in Springer volume
- Ferrari, Dwight Read, and Sander van der Leeuw, "An agent based model of information flows in social dynamics" Ch 14 in Complexity Perspectives in Innovation and Social Change Series: Methodos Series , Vol. 7, Lane, D.; Pumain, D.; Leeuw, S.E. van der; West, G. (Eds.) 2009 Papers in Springer volume
