Aldenderfer M., Maschner H.D.G. Anthropology, Space, and Geographic Information Systems

Oxford University Press, 1996. — 305 p. — (Spatial information systems). — ISBN: 0-19-508575-2.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.Introduction (Mark Aldenderfer).
Land Degradation in the Peruvian Amazon: Applying GIS in Human Ecology Research (William M. Loker).
The Use of GIS to Measure Spatial Patterns of Ethnic Firms in the Los Angeles Garment Industry (Christopher G. Arnold and Richard P. Appelbaum).
A Formal Justification for the Application of GIS to the Cultural Ecological Analysis of Land-Use Intensification and Deforestation in the Amazon (Clifford A. Behrens).
Integrating Socioeconomic and Geographic Information Systems: A Methodology for Rural Development and Agricultural Policy Design (Susan Stonich).
Empirical and Methodological Problems in Developing a GIS Database for Yanomano Tribesmen Located in Remote Areas (Ken McGwire, Napoleon A. Chagnon, and Charles Brewer Carias).
A Time to Rend, A Time to Sew: New Perspectives on Northern Anasazi Sociopolitical Development in Late Prehistory (Carla Van West and Timothy A. Kohler).
Moving from Catchments to Cognition: Tentative Steps Toward a Larger Archaeological Context for GIS (Vincent Gaffney, Zoran Stancic, and Helen Watson).
An Analysis of Late-Horizon Settlement Patterns in the Teotihuacan-Temascalapa Basins: A Location-Allocation and GIS-Based Approach (Amy J. Ruggles and Richard L. Church).
The Politics of Settlement Choice on the Northwest Coast: Cognition, GIS, and Coastal Landscapes (Herbert D. G. Maschner).
The Role of GIS in the Management of Archaeological Data: An Example of Application for the Spanish Administration (Conception Blasco Bosqued, Javier Baena Preysler, and Javier Expiago).
The Role of GIS in the Interdisciplinary Investigations at Olorgesailie, Kenya, a Pleistocene Archaeological Locality (Richard Potts, Tom forstad, and Daniel Cole).
Danebury Revisited: A English Iron Age Hillfort in a Digital Landscape (Gary R. Lock and Trevor M. Harris).
Geographic Information Systems and Spatial Analysis in the Social Sciences (Michael F. Goodchild).