Comments on: An Anthropology Geneology Project? /2008/03/05/an-anthropology-geneology-project/ Notes and Queries in Anthropology Fri, 08 Dec 2017 18:00:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.1 By: Kerim /2008/03/05/an-anthropology-geneology-project/comment-page-1/#comment-241053 Mon, 10 Mar 2008 07:33:37 +0000 /2008/03/05/an-anthropology-geneology-project/#comment-241053 I don’t know if you saw this post or not. Not anthropology – but similar idea.

]]> By: ckelty /2008/03/05/an-anthropology-geneology-project/comment-page-1/#comment-238096 Sat, 08 Mar 2008 00:38:17 +0000 /2008/03/05/an-anthropology-geneology-project/#comment-238096 haha. I do know a scholarly society that probably wont have any interest…

]]> By: Rex /2008/03/05/an-anthropology-geneology-project/comment-page-1/#comment-237809 Fri, 07 Mar 2008 18:29:52 +0000 /2008/03/05/an-anthropology-geneology-project/#comment-237809 Write a grant for that, Chris 🙂

]]> By: John McCreery /2008/03/05/an-anthropology-geneology-project/comment-page-1/#comment-237370 Fri, 07 Mar 2008 13:23:44 +0000 /2008/03/05/an-anthropology-geneology-project/#comment-237370 Consider PAJEK. It’s free, not hard to learn, and has very fast algorithms for converting network data into network drawings. I’m using it for my research on the social networks of Tokyo ad contest winners. The only tricky bit is getting data into a form that PAJEK can handle. There are, however, a couple of free utilities for converting Text and Excel files.

]]> By: ckelty /2008/03/05/an-anthropology-geneology-project/comment-page-1/#comment-237361 Fri, 07 Mar 2008 13:11:52 +0000 /2008/03/05/an-anthropology-geneology-project/#comment-237361 And for the French case, we have Bourdieu’s Homo Academicus which has a nice signature Bourdieuian diagram with all the Parisian academics on it. In general, I would say we don’t lack for reflexive data on this subject, only a clever and playful interactive tool for exploring the relationships.

]]> By: Kerim /2008/03/05/an-anthropology-geneology-project/comment-page-1/#comment-236693 Thu, 06 Mar 2008 23:32:28 +0000 /2008/03/05/an-anthropology-geneology-project/#comment-236693 When linguistic anthropology was still young enough to compile such a geneology Stephen Murray wrote: Theory Groups and the Study of Language in North America: A Social History. Its about the closest I’ve seen to what you are talking about.

]]> By: Rex /2008/03/05/an-anthropology-geneology-project/comment-page-1/#comment-236546 Thu, 06 Mar 2008 20:25:40 +0000 /2008/03/05/an-anthropology-geneology-project/#comment-236546 Seriously, though, a lot of work has been done on this already, at least in sociology. Check out:

Burris, Val. 2004 “The Academic Caste System: Prestige Hierarchies in Ph.D. Exchange Networks.” American Sociological Review, Vol. 69, No. 2, pp. 239-264.

]]> By: ckelty /2008/03/05/an-anthropology-geneology-project/comment-page-1/#comment-236241 Thu, 06 Mar 2008 12:25:30 +0000 /2008/03/05/an-anthropology-geneology-project/#comment-236241 so that’s what that thing is. I thought it was the shrunken head of James Frazer.

]]> By: Rex /2008/03/05/an-anthropology-geneology-project/comment-page-1/#comment-235474 Wed, 05 Mar 2008 18:34:13 +0000 /2008/03/05/an-anthropology-geneology-project/#comment-235474 We have actually already constructed such a genealogy. We keep it mounted on one wall of the billiard room in the clubhouse and ask Jeeves to update it regularly after we have our evening sherry.

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