Dwight W. Read
Professor
Department of Anthropology
UCLA

Curriculum Vitae
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Publications (PDF format)

  1. Foraging society organization: A simple model of a complex transition (European Journal of Operational Research, 1987)
  2. The Utility of Mathematical Constructs in Building Archaeological Theory (Mathematics and Information Science in Archaeology: A Flexible Framework, A. Voorrips, ed., 1990)
  3. Formal analysis of kinship terminologies and its relationship to what constitutes kinship(Complete Text) (Mathematical Anthropology and Cultural Theory: An International Journal, 2000)
  4. Formal analysis of kinship terminologies and its relationship to what constitutes kinship (Anthropological Theory, 2001)
  5. What is Kinship? (In The Cultural Analysis of Kinship: The Legacy of David Schneider and Its Implications for Anthropological Relativism, R. Feinberg and M. Ottenheimer eds., 2001)
  6. Mathematical Modeling Issues in Analytical Representations of Human Societies (Proceedings of the Austrian Society for Cybernetic Studies, 2002)
  7. A Multi-Trajectory, Competition Model of Emergent Complexity in Human Social Organization (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2002)
  8. Population Growth, Carrying Capacity, and Conflict (Text) (Current Anthropology, 2003)
  9. Population Growth, Carrying Capacity, and Conflict (Appendix) (Current Anthropology, 2003)
  10. Population Growth, Carrying Capacity, and Conflict (Reply) (Current Anthropology, 2003)
  11. The Emergence of Order from Disorder as a Form of Self Organization (Computational & Mathematical Organization Theory 2003 9(3): 195-225)

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  1. Kinship based demographic simulation of societal processes (Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 1998)
  2. Formal relationships between ideational and material models in anthropology
  3. Formal analysis of kinship terminologies and its relationship to what constitutes kinship(Complete Text) (Mathematical Anthropology and Cultural Theory: An International Journal, 2000)



Conference Papers (PDF format)

  1. Modeling Human Environmental Interaction: Local Instabilities and Structural Persistence (Abisko Conference, Sweden, May 19 - 23, 2001)
  2. Cultural Construct + Instantiation = Constructed Reality (Cultural Idea Systems: Logical Structures and The Logic of Instantiation, AAA Meetings, Washington DC, November 28 - Dec. 2, 2001)
  3. Emergent Properties in Small Scale Societies (Self-Organisation and Evolution of Social Behaviour, Monte Verità, Switzerland, September 8-13, 2002)


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  1. The Role of Culture in the Evolution of Complex Societies (Plenary Talk) (International Conference on Complex Systems 2002, Nashua, New Hampshire, June 8 - 12, 2002)
  2. Alliance : Descent :: Emergent : Constructed -- Or, Why Is African Art Fractal? (Salon des Refusés, Society for Anthropological Sciences, New Orleans 2002)
  3. Innovation: A Culture Perspective (Cognition and Innovation Workshop, ISCOM, Venice, Italy, September 27 - 30, 2004)
  4. Three Modes of Innovation (Third ISCOM International Workshop, Reggio Emilia, Italy, April 3 - 6, 2005)


 


Lectures  (HTML and PPT format)

  1. Birth Spacing, Aggression and Chiefly Cycling: The Evolution of Social Complexity (Cotsen Institute, UCLA, January 17, 2003)
  2. Four Major Events in the Universe: The Big Bang, the Origin of Life, the Origin of Sexual Reproduction, and the Origin of Symbolic Thought (Marschak Colloquium, UCLA, October 24, 2003; Mathematics and Physics Department Colloquium, CSU Fresno, April 23, 2004)
  3. The Origin and Evolution of Culture (CSEOL Lecture, UCLA, October 29, 2003 and February 18, 2004)


 



Organized Sessions (PDF format)

  1. Mathematical Modeling and Anthropology: Its Rationale, Past Successes and Future Directions, Dwight Read, Organizer (European Meeting on Cybernetics and System Research 2002, April 2 - 5, 2002, University of Vienna)
  2. Cultural Idea Systems: Logical Structures and The Logic of Instantiation, Dwight Read and Murray Leaf, Co-Organizers, AAA Meetings, Washington DC, November 28 - Dec. 2, 2001)



Funded Grant Proposals (HTML format

  1. (with Michael Fischer) Formal relationships between ideational and material models in anthropology (Funded by the Economic and Research Council, UK, 1999)