Michael D. Fischer
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Michael D. Fischer is an anthropologist who has worked mainly in the Punjab and Swat in Pakistan, and in the Cook Islands, mainly Rarotonga and Atiu. His major interests are in the representation and structure of indigenous knowledge, cultural informatics, and the interrelationships between ideation and the material contexts within which and upon which ideation is expressed.
Fischer is Professor of Anthropological Sciences in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Kent and is currently Director of the Centre for Social Anthropology and Computing, the University of Kent at Canterbury. He is the author of Applications in Computing for Social Anthropologists, Co-Editor for the Ethnographics Gallery, a guest editor for Cybernetics and Systems and the Anthropology editor for Social Science Computer Review.
Read, Dwight W. & Michael Fischer. 2004. Kinship Algebra Expert System. Canterbury: Centre for Social Anthropology and Computing. http://kaes.anthrosciences.net
Themes from the ESRC-NSF Anthropological Computing workshop--Doug June 2007
[edit] Links
http://anthromethods.net/amwiki/AnthroMethods/AnthroMethods.html
Methods_links#Kent-Canterbury-CSAC CSAC
Special Issue editor, Configuring Anthropology, Social Science Computer Review 2006
[edit] Recent Publications
- 2006 Cultural Agents: Changing the World in the Community of Minds Cybernetics and Systems Research. [1]
- 2006 Cultural Agents: A Community of Minds Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3963 ESAW 2005 259-274, Springer [2]
- 2005 Culture and Indigenous Knowledge Systems: Emergent order and the internal regulation of shared symbolic systems Cybernetics and Systems 36(8): 735-752. [3]
- 2006 Arranging Marriage in an Urban Community in Pakistan: 1982-2000 Contemporary South Asia 15(4):325-339 [4]
