Book Review: Kinship Studies in Nepali Anthropology

Machine learning applications in anthropology: Automated discovery over kinship structures

A common problem in anthropological field work is generalizing rules governing social interactions and relations (particularly kinship) from a series of examples. One class of machine learning algorithms is particularly well-suited to this task: inductive logic programming systems, as exemplified by FOIL. A knowledge base of relationships among individuals is established, in the form of a serie...

Tembe-Thonga Kinship : The Marriage of Anthropology and History

Résumé D. Webster — Le système de parenté tembe-thonga : les noces de l'histoire et de l'anthropologie. L'auteur dénonce l'usage trop fréquent du « présent ethnographique » en démontrant, par comparaison entre la situation actuelle, les descriptions anciennes comme celle de Junod, et la tradition orale, que les structures familiales du groupe ont changé parallèlement aux transformations politiq...

Daribi kinship at perpendicular angles: A trompe l‘oeil anthropology

What are the contours of such ―knowledge‖ that does double duty both as a public good or commons and as a source of individual empowerment and liberty? This article offers an analysis of the epistemological organisation of the ―knowledge economy‖ by shooting ethnographic work on Free Software through a playful trompe l‘oeil of Roy Wagner‘s classic piece on Daribi kinship. It offers a preliminar...

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