Transformations
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Transformations

Mathematical Approaches to Culture Change

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Transformations

Mathematical Approaches to Culture Change

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Transformations: Mathematical Approaches to Culture Change focuses on the application of contemporary mathematical techniques to the study of culture change and formulates problems in archaeology, anthropology, and historiography in such a way that they are susceptible to treatment of a mathematical kind. Mathematical models, extending from the almost purely quantitative methods of physics to the purely verbal conceptual explanations, are described. Emphasis is placed on catastrophe theoretic models that exemplify the use of soft mathematics in situations in which the use of hard quantitative models is not possible. Comprised of 21 chapters, this book begins with an overview of the role of mathematics in theoretical archaeology, followed by a discussion on two general categories of mathematical methods that seem to be suitable for modeling cultural transformations: methods of dynamical systems theory and methods that give greater emphasis on discrete entities and the structural relations or patterns among them. Subsequent chapters deal with the use of mathematics in history; morphogenesis in biological and social systems; simulation of the growth of hierarchies; and logistic trends in Southwest population growth. A reconstruction of political units in the Valley of Mexico during the Toltec period is also presented. This monograph will be of interest to archaeologists, anthropologists, historians, biologists, sociologists, and mathematicians.

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Publisher
Academic Press
Year
2014
ISBN
9781483277523
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Sociology
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Transformation: Mathematical Approaches to Culture Change
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Dedication
  6. List of Contributors
  7. Foreword
  8. Preface
  9. Acknowledgments
  10. PART I: ΜΑΤΗΕΜΑTICS AND CULTURE CHANGE
  11. PART II: HIERARCHY AND SOCIAL SPACE
  12. PART Ill: SIMULATON AND THE MEASUREMENT OF CHANGE
  13. PART IV: SYSTEMS AND SUBSYSTEM INTERAOTON
  14. PART V: THE DECISION NEXUS AND EARLY ECONOMIES
  15. PART VI: ΗOLISTIC BEHAVIOR AND CATASTROPHE THEORY
  16. Index