Computational anthropology
is the holistic study of humankind for understanding of human behavior, culture
and evolution using computational methods. Methods include social network
analysis, data mining, natural language processing, and modeling.
Examples:
Social Network Analysis
The Emerging Science of
Computational Anthropology - MIT Technology Review, June 2014
Wolfe, Alvin W. 2011.
"Anthropologist View of Social Network Analysis and Data Mining."
Social Network Analysis and Mining. 1(1): 3–19.
Borgatti, Stephen P., Ajay
Mehra, Daniel J. Brass, and Giuseppe Labianca.
2009. Network Analysis in
the Social Sciences. Science 323(5916): 892–895.
Data Mining
How the most important
people in history vary by culture - MIT Technology Review, February 2015
Agent-Based Modeling
Janssen, Marco A. 2009.
Understanding Artificial Anasazi. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social
Simulation. 12(4)13.
http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/12/4/13.html
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