Anthropology, Space, and Geographic Information Systems

Zusatztext This volume offers something in which almost every anthropologist or archaeologist should be interested...a valuable addition to the anthropological literature on GIS. Klappentext Major advances in the use of geographic information systems have been made in both anthropology and archaeology. Yet there are few published discussions of these new applications and their use in solving complex problems. This book explores these techniques! showing how they have been successfully deployed to pursue research previously considered too difficult--or impossible--to undertake. Among the projects described here are studies of land degradation in the Peruvian Amazon! settlement patterns in the Pacific northwest! ethnic distribution within the Los Angeles garment industry! and prehistoric sociopolitical development among the Anasazi. Following an introduction that discusses the theory of geographic information systems in relation to anthropological inquiry! the book is divided into sections demonstrating actual applications in cultural anthropology! archaeology! paleoanthropology! and physical anthropology. The work will be of much interest within all these communities. Zusammenfassung Major advances in the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) have been made in both anthropology and archaeology. This book will bring together users of GIS in these fields to describe research that was either too difficult, or impossible, to achieve using any other tools.

Product details

• Authors: Mark (Assistant Professor of Anthropo Aldenderfer, Mark S. Maschner Aldenderfer
• Assisted by: Mark Aldenderfer (Editor), Mark (Assistant Professor of Anthropology Aldenderfer (Editor), Mark S. Aldenderfer (Editor), Herbert Maschner (Editor), Herbert D. G. Maschner (Editor), Herbert D. G. (Professor Maschner (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.10.1996
• EAN: 9780195085754
• ISBN: 978-0-19-508575-4
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: Spatial Information Systems; Spatial Information Systems
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous; COMPUTERS / Computer Science, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, computer science, Archaeology, Geographical information systems (GIS) & remote sensing, Geographical information systems, geodata and remote sensing