Modeling the Past (eBook)

Archaeology, History, and Dynamic Networks

Helen Dawson, Mark Golitko, Marc Kissel, John Terrell (Autoren)

eBook Download: PDF

2023
248 Seiten
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80073-870-6 (ISBN)

Infos

How do researchers use dynamic network analysis (DYRA) to explore, model, and try to understand the complex global history of our species? Reduced to bare bones, network analysis is a way of understanding the world around us a way called relational thinking that is liberating but challenging. Using this handbook, researchers learn to develop historical and archaeological research questions anchored in DYRA. Undergraduate and graduate students, as well as professional historians and archaeologists can consult on issues that range from hypothesis-driven research to critiquing dominant historical narratives, especially those that have tended to ignore the diversity of the archaeological record.

Autor

John Terrell is Regenstein Curator of Pacific Anthropology at Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. His most recent books are A Talent for Friendship: Rediscovery of a Remarkable Trait (Oxford, 2014), and Understanding the Human Mind: Why You Shouldn't Trust What Your Brain is Telling You (written with his son Gabriel Stowe Terrell, Routledge, 2020).

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 10.3.2023
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Geschichtstheorie / Historik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Agency • Ancient DNA • Archaeology, History (General), Anthropology (General) • Bayes’ Theorem • categorical analysis • Consilience • Decolonization • dynamic relational analysis • DYRA • Historical explanation • historical foresight • historical justification • Interpretation • Mediterranean Europe • Methodology • Migration • Model Building • Models • Neolithic revolution • Networks • New Guinea • Pacific Islands • Partial Mantel test • Plausibility • Probability • Relational Analysis • relational contingency • Scientific models • SNA • social network analysis • Statistical Analysis • theory • voyaging
• ISBN-10: 1-80073-870-6 / 1800738706
• ISBN-13: 978-1-80073-870-6 / 9781800738706