Modeling the Past

Archaeology, History, and Dynamic Networks

John Terrell, Mark Golitko, Helen Dawson, Marc Kissel (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

248 Seiten

2023
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80073-869-0 (ISBN)

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How do researchers use dynamic network analysis (DYRA) to explore, model, and try to understand the complex global history of our species? Reduced to bare bones, network analysis is a way of understanding the world around us — a way called relational thinking — that is liberating but challenging. Using this handbook, researchers learn to develop historical and archaeological research questions anchored in DYRA. Undergraduate and graduate students, as well as professional historians and archaeologists can consult on issues that range from hypothesis-driven research to critiquing dominant historical narratives, especially those that have tended to ignore the diversity of the archaeological record.

John Terrell is Regenstein Curator of Pacific Anthropology at Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. His most recent books are A Talent for Friendship: Rediscovery of a Remarkable Trait (Oxford, 2014), and Understanding the Human Mind: Why You Shouldn't Trust What Your Brain is Telling You (written with his son Gabriel Stowe Terrell, Routledge, 2020).

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Acknowledgements

Introduction: History Matters

Chapter 1. Dynamic Relational Analysis

Chapter 2. Start With a Question

Chapter 3. Theories of History

Chapter 4. Modeling Theories

Chapter 5. Developing Hypotheses

Chapter 6. Gathering Information

Chapter 7. Analyzing Data

Conclusion: So What?

Glossary

References

Erscheinungsdatum	14.02.2023
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Geschichtstheorie / Historik
ISBN-10	1-80073-869-2 / 1800738692
ISBN-13	978-1-80073-869-0 / 9781800738690
Zustand	Neuware