III SASci Meeting, San Antonio, TX, February 21-24
Program
Wednesday, February 21 pm
3:00-6:00 Registration
6:00-7:00 SASci/SCCR Wine and Cheese Part
Thursday, February 22 am
ROOM 1 (Bowie)
8:00-12:00
Panel: Socio-cultural and Political Evolution: Patterns, Trends, Mechanisms, and Mathematical Models.
Organizer and Chair: Prof. Andrey Korotayev, Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, Russia
8:00-8:30
Robert L. Carneiro (American Museum of Natural History) CULTURAL EVOLUTION AND THE SECOND LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS
8:30-9:00
Leonid Grinin (Volgograd Center for Social Research). PERIODIZATION OF HISTORY: A THEORETIC-MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS
9:00-9:30
Peter N. Peregrine (Lawrence U). EXPLORING CULTURAL EVOLUTION USING CAUSAL MODELING
9:30-10:00
Eric C. Jones (UNC-Greensboro) EXTREME EVENTS AND SOCIAL CHANGE OVER LONG TIME PERIODS
10:00-10:30
Andrey Korotayev (Russian State U.). THE WORLD SYSTEM HISTORY PERIODIZATION AND MATHEMATICAL MODELS OF SOCIO-HISTORICAL PROCESSES
10:30-11:00 BREAK
11:00-11:30
David Small (Lehigh U.) THE ROLE OF STRUCTURAL ARTICULATION IN CROSS-CULTURAL ANALYSIS, WHAT WORKS AND WHAT DOES NOT WORK.
11:30-12:00
Thomas D. Hall (DePauw U.) CENTRAL ASIAN MIDDLEMEN, MARCHER STATES AND AFRO-EURASIAN SYNCHRONY
12:00-1:30 LUNCH
ROOM 2 (Coronado)
8:00-12:00
Panel: Lexical and Cultural Issues in Classification of Knowledge
Organizer and Chair: Prof. Benjamin Blount, University of Texas, San Antonio
8:00-8:30
Benjamin Blount (U. of Texas, San Antonio) SALIENCE IN ETHNOENTOMOLOGICAL NOMENCLATURE AND CLASSIFICATION.
8:30-9:00
Giovanni Bennardo (Northern Illinois U.) FAMILIAR SPACE IN SOCIAL MEMORY
9:00-9:30
Carlos Garcia-Quijano (Whittier College) and Manuel Valdés Pizzini (U of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez). THE ROLE OF ECOLOGICAL INFORMATION IN PUERTO RICAN FISHERS’ FOLK TAXONOMIES OF MARINE LIFE.
9:30-10:00
Victor deMunck (SUNY-New Paltz), Meghan Garry (SUNY-New Paltz) A CULTURAL MODEL OF COURTSHIP IN AMERICA.
10:00-10:30
Robert Moore and Karl Riecken (Rollins College) THE SEMANTICS OF SOUL IN CHINA AND THE US
10:30-11:00 BREAK
11:00-11:30
Will Bennis (Northwestern U.) KNOWING when to hold ‘em and when to fold ‘em: The importance of “hot” and “cold” patterns in outcomes to experienced casino gamblers’ strategies and choices
11:30-12:00 DISCUSSION
12:00-1:30 LUNCH
Thursday, February 22 pm
ROOM 1 (Bowie)
1:30-4:00
Panel: Culture and Identity
Chair: Victor deMunck
1:30-2:00
Duran Bell (UC Irvine) ON IDENTITY
2:00-2:30
Victor deMunck (SUNY-New Platz) A CULTURAL MODELS APPROACH TO LITHUANIAN NATIONAL IDENTITY
2:30-3:00
Rosalyn Negron (U. of Florida) A MIXED-METHOD APPROACH FOR CONCEPTUALIZING ETHNIC IDENTITY
3:00-3:30
Hidetada Shimizu (Northern Illinois U.) CULTURAL MODELS OF SELF PRESENTATIONS IN JAPAN AND THE UNITED STATES: A MULTIVOCAL VIDEOGRAPHY STUDY
3:30
DISCUSSION
ROOM 2 (Coronado)
1:30-4:00
Panel: Issues of Method
Chair: John Gatewood
1:30-2:00
John Gatewood (Lehigh U.) SURVEY RESEARCH UNDER LESS THAN IDEAL CIRCUMSTANCES
2:00-2:30
Mark Glazer (U Texas-PanAmerican) TRANSMITING LEGENDS IN SOUTH TEXAS: A STATISTICAL APPROCH
2:30-3:00
John Roberts (U. of New Mexico) EXACT TESTS FOR LOG-LINEAR MODELS: ANTHROPOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS
3:00-3:30
Clarence Gravlee, Chad Maxwell, Aryeh Jacobsohn, Veronica McClain, and H. Russell Bernard (U. of Florida) MODE EFFECTS IN THE COLLECTION OF PILE SORTS: FACE-TO-FACE VS. INTERNET-MEDIATED DATA COLLECTION
3:30
DISCUSSION
4:00-5:00 (Bowie)
Keynote Speaker: Dwight Read (UCLA),
FROM ANTHROPOLOGICAL REASONING TO MATHEMATICAL REASONING AND BACK.
5:00-6:00 (Coronado)
Workshop 1: Run by Douglas White (UC Irvine), A CROSS-CULTURAL RESEARCH COURSE
Friday, February 23 am
ROOM 1 (Bowie)
8:00-2:30
Panel: Formalization as a tool for empirical research: what it buys us and what it doesn't.
Organizer and Chair: Prof. David Kronenfeld, University of California, Riverside
8:00-8:30
Michael Fischer (U. of Kent at Canterbury) CULTURAL DYNAMICS: FORMAL DESCRIPTIONS OF CULTURAL PROCESSES
8:30-9:00
Alan G. Fix (UC Riverside) GENETIC DENDROGRAMS AND MALAYSIAN POPULATION HISTORY
9:00-9:30
Nick Gessler (UCLA) ARTIFICIAL CULTURE AND MULTIAGENT EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION
9:30-10:00
David Kronenfeld (UC Riverside) LANGUAGE FAMILY TREES: WHAT THEY CAN AND CANNOT REPRESENT
10:00-10:30
Lawrence Kuznar (Indiana U. -Purdue U., Fort Wayne) THE USE OF COMPUTER MODELING FOR OVERCOMING THE LIMITS OF FORMALIZATION
10:30-11:00 BREAK
11:00-11:30
Murray Leaf (U. of Texas, Dallas) EMPIRICAL FORMALISM
11:30-12:00
K. Lehman (U. of Illinois, UC) FORMALISM AND EMPIRICISM: THE CASE OF CORPORATENESS AND CONTROVERSIES IN DESCENT THEORY
12:00-1:30 LUNCH
ROOM 2 (Coronado)
8:00-12:00
Panel: Culture and Childhood: The Relative Value of Children/Youth
Organizer and Chair: David F. Lancy, Utah State University
Co-Sponsored by SASci and SCCR
8:00-8:30
Bonnie Hewlett (Washington State U., Vancouver) THE EFFECT OF HEALTH STATUS AND PARASITE LOAD ON THE PERCEPTION OF PHYSICAL ATTRACTIVENESS AMONG THE AKA FORAGER AND NGANDU FARMER ADOLESCENTS OF THE CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC
8:30-9:00
Howard Kress (U. of Connecticut) AN EVALUATION OF INFANT MORTALITY AND EMBODIED CAPITAL MODELS OF FERTILITY TRANSITION IN OTAVALO, ECUADOR
9:00-9:30
Dawn Grimes-MacLellan (Saint Mary’s U.) RETHINKING CHILDHOOD IN GLOBAL JAPAN
9:30-10:00
David F. Lancy (Utah State U.) TODDLER REJECTION
10:00-10:30
Rebecca K. Zarger (U. of South Florida) BUILDING SLINGSHOTS AND FINDING EDIBLE GLUE: A FIELD GUIDE TO PEER LEARNING DURING CHILDHOOD IN SOUTHERN BELIZE
10:30-11:00 BREAK
11:00-11:30
Fouts Hilary (U. of Tennessee) DISCUSSANT
11:30-12:00
DISCUSSION
12:00-1:30 LUNCH
Friday, February 23 pm
ROOM 1 (Bowie)
1:30-2:30
Panel: Formalization as a tool for empirical research: what it buys us and what it doesn't. (Continued)
Organizer and Chair: Prof. David Kronenfeld, University of California, Riverside
1:30-2:00
Douglas R. White (UC Irvine) and Woodrow W. Denham (Alice Lloyd College) THE INDIGENOUS AUSTRALIAN MARRIAGE PARADOX.
2:00-2:30
DISCUSSION
ROOM 2 (Coronado)
1:30-3:30
Panel: Using Archaeological Data to Answer Anthropological Questions.
Organizer and Chair: Prof. Winifred Creamer, Northern Illinois University
1:30-2:00
Michael Kolb (Northern Illinois U.) A JOURNEY THROUGH MONUMENTAL SPACE.
2:00-2:30
Winifred Creamer (Northern Illinois U.) LARGE SITES AND MONUMENTAL ARCHITECTURE: URBANISM?
2:30-3:00
Nathan Craig (Field Museum) A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF NATURAL AND ANTHROPOGENIC DARK AND TWILIGHT ZONES IN WESTERN SOUTH AMERICA.
3:00-3:30
John Kantner (School of American Research) COSMOGRAPHY AND POLITICS IN THE CHACO WORLD
3:00-4:00 (Bowie)
Workshop 2: Run by Michael Fischer (U. of Canterbury, UK), ANTHROMETHODS AND ANTHROGRID
4:00-5:45 (Coronado)
Workshop 3: Run by Christopher MacCarthy (U. of Florida), PERSONAL SOCIAL NETWORKS
6:00-7:30
BANQUET
Saturday, February 24 am
ROOM 1 (Bowie)
8:00-10:30
Panel: Environment, Folkbiology, and Alzheimer
Chair: Margo-Lea Hurwicz
8:00-8:30
Kathi Beratan (North Carolina State U.) FROM INDIVIDUAL AWARENESS TO COLLECTIVE ACTION: ADAPTATION OF U.S. GOVERNANCE INSTITUTIONS TO GRADUAL ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION
8:30-9:00
Ava Lasseter (U. of Florida) BEAN FISH: CULTURAL CONSENSUS OF FISH NAMES AS AN INDICATOR OF UTILITY AMONG YUCATECAN FISHERMEN
9:00-9:30
Sara Unsworth ((Northwestern U.), CONCEPTUAL DEVELOPMENT IN THE DOMAIN OF FOLKBIOLOGY: BRIDGING ACROSS CULTURAL UNDERSTANDINGS OF NATURE
9:30-10:00
Margo-Lea Hurwicz ((U. of Missouri-St. Louis), AN EXAMPLE OF TEST DEVELOPMENT USING CONSENSUS ANALYSIS: CULTURAL KNOWLEDGE OF ALZHEIMER DISEASE
10:00-10:30
DISCUSSION
10:30-11:00 BREAK
ROOM 2 (Coronado)
8:00-10:30
Panel: Emotions and Pythons
Chair: Andrea Bender
8:00-8:30
Andrea Bender, Hans Spada, Hannah Swoboda, Simone Traber (U. of Freiburg), JUSTICE AND ANGER IN TONGA AND GERMANY.
8:30-9:00
Thomas Headland (SIL International), and Harry W. Greene (Cornell U.), PYTHONS AND PEOPLE AS PREDATORS AND PREY.
9:00-9:30
Laura Fornos (U. of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio), A QUALITATIVE STUDY OF MEXICAN AMERICAN ADOLESCENT DEPRESSION
9:30-10:00
Aki Roberts (U. of New Mexico), EXPLAINING DIFFERENCES BETWEEN HOMICIDE CLEARANCE RATES IN JAPAN AND THE UNITED STATES
10:00-10:30
DISCUSSION
10:30-11:00 BREAK
11:00-12:00 (Bowie)
Workshop 4: Run by Deborah Winslow (NSF), WHERE IS THE MONEY AT NSF?
12:00-1:30 LUNCH
12:00-1:30 LUNCH
Saturday February 24 pm
1:30-3:30 (Bowie)
Chairs: John Gatewood, David Kronenfeld, and Murray Leaf
SUMMING UP MAJOR THEMES AND EVALUATING THE MEETING
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