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Anthropology, space, and geographic information systems

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, opaleoanthropology, and physical anthropology.

The work will be of much interest within all these communities.

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English
Pages
294

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Anthropology, space, and geographic information systems
1996, Oxford University Press
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-289) and index.
Papers from a conference held in Santa Barbara, January, 1992.

Published in
New York
Series
Spatial information systems

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
301/.0285
Library of Congress
GN346.5 .A57 1996, GN346.5.A57 1996

The Physical Object

Pagination
x, 294 p. :
Number of pages
294

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL796454M
Internet Archive
anthropologyspac00alde
ISBN 10
0195085752
LCCN
95032350
OCLC/WorldCat
32778693
Library Thing
5922491
Goodreads
2265341

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