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SE300 - Computing for Anthropologist s
September 2003

Part 2: Class Materials

Michaelmas Term

Week 2 (30/9/03 or 1/10/03)
An introduction to the Mac's and the facilities available to you in L49; logging on to the Mac network; using Appleworks as a word-processor; saving files in your personal space; using a Web browser to look at some of last year's work; using a search engine; storing search results in a wp document.
Exercises
Practise using the Mac!

Week 3 (07/10/03 or 8/10/03)
An introduction to Go-Live, a web authoring program; making web html files; formatting text; inserting images; making links to local files; making links to external sites; viewing HTML files with a browser; making changes and viewing the effect of those changes. Introduction to the Yanomano Interactive CD.
Exercises
Start work on the Home Page/Cultural Context part of the Michaelmas assessment. Spend some time looking at Yanomamo Interactive CD Bring Headphones! Continue work on the your Home Page/Cultural Context, especially linking to other web sites. Review the Yanomamo material, write and put on your home page a one paragraph assessment of the events in the film and how the CD can be used to explore these events.

Week 4 (14/10/03 or 15/10/03)
Exercises A brief discussion on the importance of kinship and kin obligations in the present day. A review of making links; setting up the files and folder for the kinship assessment; looking at the Yanomamo material with particular regard to the importance of kinship. An introduction to using the Kinship Editor; practise in making, saving and opening Kinship Editor files
Start work on your family tree (part of the kinship assessment)
Week 5 (21/10/03 or 22/10/03)
Exercises
Finish the family tree portion of your kinship assessment. Work on the brief essay comparing marraige rights and obligations between your society and the Yamomano.

Week 6 (28/10/03 or 29/10/03)
Linking your family tree to the web. Calculating Kin. Programming and relationships
Exercises
Complete defining in Prolog the relationship terms assigned in the workshop. Write a brief account of what this approach to looking at kinship produces that is different from using diagrams
Assignment Notes.
Download KinshipEditorAppletTemplate

Week 7 (5/11/03 or 6/11/03)
More Calculating Kin work. Dscussion of the Kinship workshops and the role of kinship in anthropological studies.
ERA Representing Kin page - Calculating Kin subsection
Exercises
Come to class prepared to discuss your experience.

W eek 8 (12/11/03 or 13/11/03)
Exercises
Finish the family tree portion of your kinship assessment

Week 9 (19/11/03 or 20/11/03)
Looking at the on-line Human Relations Area Files (HRAF) material; discussing the HRAF assessment
Exercises
The Bibliography assignment. Start work on the HRAF assessment.

Week 10 (26/11/03 or 27/11/03)
Looking at the on-line HRAF material; discussing the HRAF assessment
Exercises
Continue work on the HRAF assessment.

Week 11 (3/12/03 or 4/12/03)
No Class
Exercises
Start work on the Paul Stirling part of the Lent assessment.

Week 12 (10/12/03 or 11/12/03)
Looking at the on-line HRAF material; discussing the HRAF assessment
Exercises
Complete work on the HRAF assessment. Due 14/12/2003

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Lent Term
Week 14 (13/01/03 or 14/01/03)
Measures of central tendency and spread using data collected from the class; doing very simple statistics with a spreadsheet; making simple graphs using a spreadsheet; inserting graphs into visual page documents
Exercises
There are a number of good websites with basic statistical instruction: try the following, or search yourself for something useful
http://www.mste.uiuc.edu/hill/dstat/dstat.html
Assessment The assessment sheet for this section (weeks 14-17) must be picked up at a class or lecture .

Week 15 (20/01/03 or 21/01/03)
Looking at questionnaire design, in particular the questionnaire handed out in week 13. Using a spreadsheet and a statistics program for simple analysis of the questionnaire
Exercises
Start work on the statistical part of the Lent assessment.
Assessment The assessment sheet for this section (weeks 14-16) must be picked up at a class or lecture .

Week 17 (3/02/03 or 4/03/03)
Looking at examples of statistical concepts in everyday use; recognising appropriate and inappropriate use of statistical ideas
Exercises
Continue work on the classification part of the Lent assessment
Assessment The assessment sheet for this section (weeks 14-16) must be picked up at a class or lecture .

Week 18 (10/02/03 or 11/02/03)
Using tools to help us classify ethnographic data and describe it in context.
Exercises
Start work on the Classification part of the Lent assessement.

Week 19 (17/02/03 or 18/02/03)
Using the Ethnographic Atlas database to make crosstabulation tables; merging variables; making and testing hypotheses about cultural similarities and differences;
Exercises
Start work on the Ethnographic Atlas part of the Lent assessment.

Week 21 (Week beginning 02/03/03)
Building models of human knowledge How do we investigate the stucture of a cultural domain?
Exercises Develop a model of a cultural domain

Week 22 (Week beginning 9/03/03)
Practical examples of simulations. Preliminaries to writing a simulation
Exercises Compare the example simulations. What do we learn from these.

Week 24 (26/03/02 or 27/03/02)
A discussion of the lecture on literacy, and on material culture in preparation for the exam
Exercises
None

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