Introduction: Configuring anthropology

Social Science Computer Review

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 3-14

  Fischer, Michael D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^b Department of Anthropological Sciences ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agent based modeling; Ethnographic research; High fidelity; Kinship; Mathematical anthropology

Indexed keywords

EID: 31644433350     PISSN: 08944393     EISSN: 15528286     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0894439305282575     Document Type: Review

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