User: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.
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Articles in Cybernetics and Systems Research 2004: Cultural Agents[1] Community of Minds [2] Culture and Indigenous Knowledge Systems [3]
