Dwight W Read

PROFESSOR

BA, Reed College 1964 [Mathematics]; MA, U. of Wisconsin 1965 [Mathematics]; Ph.D., UC Los Angeles 1970 [Mathematics]

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Curriculum Vitae

Class Websites

Office: 395 Haines Hall
Phone: 310-825-3988
Fax: 310-206-4723
E-mail: dread@anthro.ucla.edu

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Subfield

Archaeology, Biological Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology

Research Interests

Mathematical anthropology, kinship terminology, theory of social organization, hominid evolution, archaeological classification.

Selected Publications

(1) Read, D. 1998. Kinship Based Demographic Simulation of Societal Processes. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation http://www.soc.surrey.ac.uk/JASSS/1/1/1.html

(2) Read, D. 2001 What is Kinship? In The Cultural Analysis of Kinship: The Legacy of David Schneider and Its Implications for Anthropological Relativism, R. Feinberg and M. Ottenheimer eds. University of Illinois Press, Urbana.

(3) Read, D. 2001 Formal Analysis of Kinship Terminologies and Its Relationship to What Constitutes Kinship. Special Issue of Anthropological Theory, D. Kronenfeld, ed. 1:239-267

(4) Read, D. 2000. Formal Analysis of Kinship Terminologies and Its Relationship to What Constitutes Kinship (Complete text). Mathematical Anthropology and Cultural Theory 1 (46 pages). http://www.sbbay.com

(5) Read, D. 2002 A Multi-Trajectory, Competition Model of Emergent Complexity in Human Social Organization. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 99 (Suppl 3): 7251-7256,

(6) Read, D. 2003 From Behavior to Culture: An Assessment of Cultural Evolution and a New Synthesis. Complexity 8(6): 14-41 (http://journals.wiley.com/cplx)

(7) Read, D. (editor) Special Issue: Cultural Systems. Cybernetics: An Internatioinal Journal

Grants

(1) NSF Biocomplexity: Emergence of Cooperation From Human-Environmental Interactions in Bali ($1,000,000) (Co-PI with S. Lansing, M. Hammer, J. Kremer, and J. Watkins).

(2)ESRC Formal Relationships Between Ideational and Material Models in Anthropology ($18,500) (with M. Fischer)

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