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    Computational Anthropology, Informatics and Related Sciences (CAIRS)

    Anthropology is at the nexus of a number of different disciplines and draws on tools from different disciplines. Its focus on human communities and our on-going evolution involves the connections between different systems - material, biological, geographic, cultural, social interaction, cognitive and learning processes. The aim of CAIRS -- Computational and Informatic Anthropology -- is to contribute to anthropology and the fields that impinge on it by helping to develop on-line archives and field-study resources, provide new methods and means for investigating problems bearing on human populations, to promote the use of computers in the practice of anthropology, and to advise and provide information resources for the anthropology community worldwide and for those disciplines that use and contribute to its resources.
    Director: Douglas R. White
    Databases hosted here include: KinDemo 150, SCCS, Ethnographic Atlas, LINKAGES,
    Group Compositions in Band Societies, & links to ARCHAEOMEDES Programme, AddHealth
    NEWS AND EVENTS:

    Networks and Complexity: On-Line Publication: Cross-Fertilization among the Social and Biological Sciences

    Ancient Origins - Modern Disease. Anthropologist and Geneticist DOUGLAS C. WALLACE, UCI. April 1, 2003 UCI Student Center, Crystal Cove Auditorium 7:00PM. Reservations Reguired (824-4313).

    CAIRS LINKS

    • The Linkages Project UCI
    • Digital Ethnography, Digital Libraries
    • Useful downloads/bookorders...Search engine
    • On-Line Software and Methods for Network, Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis
    • Anthropology News and In The News
    • Related Links and Centers
    • Possible Funding for Center Proposal
    • Geographic Information Systems: Ethnography, Cultural Spaces, Archaeology, Earth Systems
    • Multimedia, Musicology, Photo/Video: Cultural Performance and Expressive Culture
    • Social Science Data Archives
    • People, Change and Development: Cultural Dynamics, Networks, Longitudinal, Demographic, Economic, Migration Studies
    • Processes of Transmission and Transformation: Genetics, Cultural Heritage, Political Succession, Wealth, Occupations, Social Movements
    • Transnational Networks, Markets, World-System: Human Populations and International Systems
    • Comparative Studies and Datasets: Developing and testing Models and Theories
    • Complexity Theory and Analysis
    • Simulation
    • HTML, Audio and Video tools for building and viewing web pages and other useful links
    • Electronic Journals
    • Study of the Uses and Impacts of Information Technology
    • Open Source and Free World Software Support
    • Campaign for "Viewable by Any Browser"

    Further information on the Proposed Center: [Animation]

    • Organization
    • Proposed Activities
    • Management Structure
    • Resources
    • Affiliated Faculty: Council on Anthropological Sciences
    • Site Index
    • Constituencies: Students
    • Constituencies: Faculty

    RECENT EVENTS:
    IMBS COLLOQUIUM: TIMOTHY A. KOHLER, Department of Anthropology, Washington State University "Approaching Realism in Agent-Based Modeling: Examination of Coupled Human/Ecosystems in the pre-Hispanic Central Mesa Verde Region" Thursday, January 23 4:00-5:30 SSPA 2112

    Seminar series on The Evolution of Peoples, Cultures and States

      Wednesday, February 5, 2003, 4:10-5:30 SSPA 2112.
      DURAN BELL. The Struggle for Survival: Patrilineal Endogamy in the Middle East.

      Wednesday, February 12, 2003, 4:10-5:30 SSPA 2112.
      DOUG WHITE and Michael Houseman. The evolution of Middle-Eastern segmented lineages

      Wednesday, February 19, 2003, 4:10-5:30 SSPA 2112.
      ANDREY KOROTAYEV, Senior Research Fellow in the Center for Regional Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow Parallel Cousin Marriage in the Middle East - A Reconsideration.
      The speaker has special expertise in ancient and contemporary Yemen and the evolution of clans and states in that area. He is a

      Wednesday, February 26, 2003, 4:10-5:30 SSPA 2112.
      Douglas C. Wallace, Director, MAMMAG (Center for Molecular & Mitochondrial Medicine and Genetics). The Scope and Promise of Molecular Anthropology

      Wednesday, March 5, 2003, 4:10-5:30 SSPA 2112.
      Douglas C Wallace, Using genetic data to make phylogenetic inferences
      (see Genealogy and Mitocondrial DNA in the Middle East: A Reconstruction of History).

    This page maintained by Douglas White; drwhite@uci.edu -- Updated January 16, 2003 -- This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 9978282. -- Please send us your criticisms of our site. site under construction