Evolution of group consciousness - A cybernetic approach: Basis of an anthropological dating and forecasting technique

Kybernetes

Volumn 30, Issue 9-10, 2001, Pages 1240-1271

  Roy, Prasun K ^a,b   Dutta Majumder, D ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

^c Institute of Cybernetics Systems Information Technology   (India)

Author keywords

Cybernetics; Ethnography; Language; Psychology; Systems theory

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION ANALYSIS; BIOCYBERNETICS; CYBERNETICS; ENERGY DISSIPATION; SYSTEM THEORY;

BIOLOGICAL ACTIVATION; CULTURAL EVOLUTION; ETHNOGRAPHY; FLUCTUATION ANALYSIS; FORECASTING TECHNIQUES; LANGUAGE; NONEQUILIBRIUM SYSTEM; PSYCHOLOGY;

BIOLOGY;

EID: 0035729610     PISSN: 0368492X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/03684920110405791     Document Type: Article

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