The use of computers in anthropology

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Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- PART ONE STRUCTURE OF THE COMPUTER AND COMPUTER USE -- I. COMPUTER STRUCTURE -- AN ANTHROPOLOGIST'S INTRODUCTION TO THE COMPUTER / LAMB, SYDNEY M. / ROMNEY, A. KIMBALL -- DISCUSSION I -- II. MODES OF USE: GENERAL -- A TYPOLOGY OF COMPUTER USES IN ANTHROPOLOGY / GARDIN, J. C. -- COMPUTER PROCESSING AND CULTURAL DATA: PROBLEMS OF METHOD / GARVIN, PAUL L. -- DISCUSSION II -- III. MODES OF USE: SPECIFIC -- COMPUTERS AND THE STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL INFORMATION / INVERARITY, ROBERT BRUCE -- LINGUISTIC DATA PROCESSING / LAMB, SYDNEY M. -- STATISTICAL PROCESSING / MILKE, WILHELM -- DISCUSSION III -- PART TWO SPECIAL RESEARCH AREAS -- IV. TEXT-ORIENTED -- COMPUTERS AND LEXICOGRAPHY / WISBEY, ROY -- DIACRITICAL AND STATISTICAL MODELS FOR LANGUAGES IN RELATION TO THE COMPUTER / GUIRAUD, PIERRE -- THE COMPUTER AS A TOOL IN FOLKLORE RESEARCH / SEBEOK, THOMAS A. -- A METHODOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION OF CONTENT ANALYSIS USING ELECTRONIC COMPUTERS FOR DATA PROCESSING / PIAULT, MME. COLETTE -- DISCUSSION IV -- V. CLASSIFICATION AND GROUPING -- SURVEY OF NUMERICAL CLASSIFICATION IN ANTHROPOLOGY / DRIVER, HAROLD E. -- COMPUTER METHODS FOR CLASSIFICATION AND GROUPING / NEEDHAM, R. M. -- AUTOMATIC CLASSIFICATION IN ANTHROPOLOGY / IHM, PETER -- RECONSTRUCTING AN ECONOMIC NETWORK IN THE ANCIENT EAST WITH THE AID OF A COMPUTER / GARDIN, J. C. -- DISCUSSION V -- VI. EXPERIMENTAL -- SIMULATION: AN INTRODUCTION FOR ANTHROPOLOGISTS / HAYS, DAVID G. -- THE COMPUTER AS A TOOL FOR THEORY DEVELOPMENT / GULLAHORN, JOHN T. / GULLAHORN, JEANNE E. -- REQUEST-ANSWER INTERACTION IN RELATION TO MAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION / PAGÈS, ROBERT -- SUGGESTIONS FOR ANTHROPOLOGY: THE MACHINE WHICH OBSERVES AND DESCRIBES / CECCATO, SILVIO -- DISCUSSION VI -- Appendix A PARTICIPANTS, AND PAPERS PREPARED FOR THE CONFERENCE -- Appendix SOME CURRENT USES OF THE COMPUTER IN ANTHROPOLOGY -- NAME INDEX -- TOPICAL INDEX