Dwight W. Read
Professor
Department of Anthropology
UCLA
Curriculum Vitae
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Publications (PDF format)
- Foraging society organization: A simple model of a complex transition (European Journal of Operational Research, 1987)
- The Utility of Mathematical Constructs in Building Archaeological Theory (Mathematics and Information Science in Archaeology: A Flexible Framework, A. Voorrips, ed., 1990)
- Formal analysis of kinship terminologies and its relationship to what constitutes kinship(Complete Text) (Mathematical Anthropology and Cultural Theory: An International Journal, 2000)
- Formal analysis of kinship terminologies and its relationship to what constitutes kinship (Anthropological Theory, 2001)
- 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)
- Mathematical Modeling Issues in Analytical Representations of Human Societies (Proceedings of the Austrian Society for Cybernetic Studies, 2002)
- A Multi-Trajectory, Competition Model of Emergent Complexity in Human Social Organization (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2002)
- Population Growth, Carrying Capacity, and Conflict (Text) (Current Anthropology, 2003)
- Population Growth, Carrying Capacity, and Conflict (Appendix) (Current Anthropology, 2003)
- Population Growth, Carrying Capacity, and Conflict (Reply) (Current Anthropology, 2003)
- 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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- Kinship based demographic simulation of societal processes (Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 1998)
- Formal relationships between ideational and material models in anthropology
- 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)
- Modeling Human Environmental Interaction: Local Instabilities and Structural Persistence (Abisko Conference, Sweden, May 19 - 23, 2001)
- Cultural Construct + Instantiation = Constructed Reality (Cultural Idea Systems: Logical Structures and The Logic of Instantiation, AAA Meetings, Washington DC, November 28 - Dec. 2, 2001)
- Emergent Properties in Small Scale Societies (Self-Organisation and Evolution of Social Behaviour, Monte Verità, Switzerland, September 8-13, 2002)
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- 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)
- Alliance : Descent :: Emergent : Constructed -- Or, Why Is African Art Fractal? (Salon des Refusés, Society for Anthropological Sciences, New Orleans 2002)
- Innovation: A Culture Perspective (Cognition and Innovation Workshop, ISCOM, Venice, Italy, September 27 - 30, 2004)
- Three Modes of Innovation (Third ISCOM International Workshop, Reggio Emilia, Italy, April 3 - 6, 2005)
Lectures (HTML and PPT format)
- Birth Spacing, Aggression and Chiefly Cycling: The Evolution of Social Complexity (Cotsen Institute, UCLA, January 17, 2003)
- 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)
- The Origin and Evolution of Culture (CSEOL Lecture, UCLA, October 29, 2003 and February 18, 2004)
Organized Sessions (PDF format)
- 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)
- 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
- (with Michael Fischer)
Formal relationships between ideational and material models in anthropology (Funded by the Economic and Research Council, UK, 1999)