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Anthropology, space, and geographic information systems / edited by Mark Aldenderfer and Herbert D.G. Maschner. [electronic resource]

Contributor(s): Aldenderfer, Mark S [editor] | Maschner, Herbert D. G [editor].
Material type: TextTextSeries: Spatial information systems. Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 1996Description: e-book contains 294 pages.ISBN: 9780197560495.Subject(s): Anthropology -- Data processing -- Congresses | Cartography -- Data processing -- Congresses | Geographic information systems -- Congresses | Spatial analysis (Statistics) -- Congresses | Archaeological Methodology | Archaeological TechniquesDDC classification: 301.0285 Online resources: https://academic.oup.com/book/40682 Click Here
Contents:
Contents Front Matter Contributors Expand1 Introduction Mark Aldenderfer View chapter Expand2 Land Degradation in the Peruvian Amazon: Applying GIS in Human Ecology Research William M Loker View chapter Expand3 The Use of GIS to Measure Spatial Patterns of Ethnic Firms in the Los Angeles Garment Industry Christopher G Arnold and Richard P Appelbaum View chapter Expand554 A Formal Justification for the Application of GIS to the Cultural Ecological Analysis of Land-Use Intensification and Deforestation in the Amazon Clifford A Behrens View chapter Expand785 Integrating Socioeconomic and Geographic Information Systems: A Methodology for Rural Development and Agricultural Policy Design Stonich Susan View chapter 6 Empirical and Methodological Problems in Developing a GIS Database for Yanomamö Tribesmen Located in Remote Areas Ken McGwire and Napoleon A Chagnon View chapter Expand1077 A Time to Rend, A Time to Sew: New Perspectives on Northern Anasazi Sociopolitical Development in Later Prehistory Carla Van West and Timothy A Kohler View chapter Expand8 Moving from Catchments to Cognition: Tentative Steps Toward a Larger Archaeological Context for GIS Vincent Gaffney and Helen Watson View chapter Expand9 An Analysis of Late-Horizon Settlement Patterns in the Teotihuacan-Temascalapa Basins: A Location-Allocation and GIS-Based Approach Amy J Ruggles and Richard L Church View chapter Expand10 The Politics of Settlement Choice on the Northwest Coast: Cognition, GIS, and Coastal Landscapes Herbert D G Maschner View chapter Expand11 The Role of GIS in the Management of Archaeological Data: An Example of Application for the Spanish Administration Concepción Blasco Bosqued and Javier Espiago View chapter Expand12 The Role of GIS in the Interdisciplinary Investigations at Olorgesailie, Kenya,a Pleistocene Archaeological Locality Richard Potts and Daniel Cole View chapter Expand13 Danebury Revisited: An English Iron Age Hillfort in a Digital Landscape Gary R Lock and Trevor M Harris View chapter Expand14 Geographic Information Systems and Spatial Analysis in the Social Sciences Michael F Goodchild View chapter End Matter References 290291Index
Abstract: Abstract Major advances in the use of geographic information systems have been made in both anthropology and archaeology. Yet there are few published discussions of these new applications and their use in solving complex problems. This book explores these techniques, showing how they have been successfully deployed to pursue research previously considered too difficult--or impossible--to undertake. Among the projects described here are studies of land degradation in the Peruvian Amazon, settlement patterns in the Pacific northwest, ethnic distribution within the Los Angeles garment industry, and prehistoric sociopolitical development among the Anasazi. Following an introduction that discusses the theory of geographic information systems in relation to anthropological inquiry, the book is divided into sections demonstrating actual applications in cultural anthropology, archaeology, paleoanthropology, and physical anthropology. The work will be of much interest within all these communities.
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Papers from a conference held in Santa Barbara, January, 1992.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-289) and index.

Contents
Front Matter
Contributors
Expand1 Introduction
Mark Aldenderfer
View chapter
Expand2 Land Degradation in the Peruvian Amazon: Applying GIS in Human Ecology Research
William M Loker
View chapter
Expand3 The Use of GIS to Measure Spatial Patterns of Ethnic Firms in the Los Angeles Garment Industry
Christopher G Arnold and Richard P Appelbaum
View chapter
Expand554 A Formal Justification for the Application of GIS to the Cultural Ecological Analysis of Land-Use Intensification and Deforestation in the Amazon
Clifford A Behrens
View chapter
Expand785 Integrating Socioeconomic and Geographic Information Systems: A Methodology for Rural Development and Agricultural Policy Design
Stonich Susan
View chapter
6 Empirical and Methodological Problems in Developing a GIS Database for Yanomamö Tribesmen Located in Remote Areas
Ken McGwire and Napoleon A Chagnon
View chapter
Expand1077 A Time to Rend, A Time to Sew: New Perspectives on Northern Anasazi Sociopolitical Development in Later Prehistory
Carla Van West and Timothy A Kohler
View chapter
Expand8 Moving from Catchments to Cognition: Tentative Steps Toward a Larger Archaeological Context for GIS
Vincent Gaffney and Helen Watson
View chapter
Expand9 An Analysis of Late-Horizon Settlement Patterns in the Teotihuacan-Temascalapa Basins: A Location-Allocation and GIS-Based Approach
Amy J Ruggles and Richard L Church
View chapter
Expand10 The Politics of Settlement Choice on the Northwest Coast: Cognition, GIS, and Coastal Landscapes
Herbert D G Maschner
View chapter
Expand11 The Role of GIS in the Management of Archaeological Data: An Example of Application for the Spanish Administration
Concepción Blasco Bosqued and Javier Espiago
View chapter
Expand12 The Role of GIS in the Interdisciplinary Investigations at Olorgesailie, Kenya,a Pleistocene Archaeological Locality
Richard Potts and Daniel Cole
View chapter
Expand13 Danebury Revisited: An English Iron Age Hillfort in a Digital Landscape
Gary R Lock and Trevor M Harris
View chapter
Expand14 Geographic Information Systems and Spatial Analysis in the Social Sciences
Michael F Goodchild
View chapter
End Matter
References
290291Index

Abstract
Major advances in the use of geographic information systems have been made in both anthropology and archaeology. Yet there are few published discussions of these new applications and their use in solving complex problems. This book explores these techniques, showing how they have been successfully deployed to pursue research previously considered too difficult--or impossible--to undertake. Among the projects described here are studies of land degradation in the Peruvian Amazon, settlement patterns in the Pacific northwest, ethnic distribution within the Los Angeles garment industry, and prehistoric sociopolitical development among the Anasazi. Following an introduction that discusses the theory of geographic information systems in relation to anthropological inquiry, the book is divided into sections demonstrating actual applications in cultural anthropology, archaeology, paleoanthropology, and physical anthropology. The work will be of much interest within all these communities.

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