Perhaps the notice was too short; perhaps the time of year was inconvenient (school holidays; students at a hiatus between ESRC grants), perhaps the syllabus was unsuitable. Anyway, we will try again.

We offer a nine-day Winter School from Jan 2 to Jan 11 1986: the cost will be approximately £220 for full board and lodging and tuition; and about £140 for non residents who have coffee, lunch, tea each day. ESRC students will be eligible for full reimbursement of charges,

The School will be held if there are sufficient takers, and we invite interested persons to fill in the form on the next page. We ask you to signify your interest by October 15 if you are indeed interested, and if you think it probable that you will be able to come. If enough people do that we shall make the booking with the University conference office. All people will be told by October 20th whether the School will take place or not.

Aims of the course

This is an intensive practical course to equip social anthropologists with basic computing skills, and to provide them with a foundation of knowledge and skill to enable them to use more specialised facilities at their home universities.

It is a UNIX (tm) - based course: it is not really worth coming unless you have access to a mainframe which runs UNIX, or you have a powerful micro-computer with large amounts of memory which will accept UNIX.

We can make provision to copy some of the utilities if you wish to take them back with you. Write to us, and we will tell you what we need to know and what you will need to do (it will probably be necessary to copy them onto magnetic tape).

Syllabus

In the first week, members will have a choice: there will be a beginner's course, giving basic instruction from scratch; and a course in programming in the language C for more advanced users.

Beginners: logging on; the vi text editor; simple formatting commands; file
management; data entry; the utilities grep, awk and sfind; a simple statistics package;
printers and output.

More advanced persons: The C programming language

In the second week there will be a series of one-day courses in particular utilities:

Bibliography with the computer

Kinship analysis

Expert knowledge systems

Relational data-bases

Simulation and modelling

I am interested in attending this school; I think I will probably be able to come. I make no commitment. I understand I will be told by Oct. 20th whether the school will take place or not.

Will you then be an ESRC funded student? (YES/NO)

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