Islands of Order: A Guide to Complexity Modeling for the Social Sciences

by J. Stephen Lansing and Murray P Cox

Book Overview

Two pioneering anthropologists reveal how complexity science can help us better understand how societies change over time

Over the past two decades, anthropologist J. Stephen Lansing and geneticist Murray Cox have explored dozens of villages on the islands of the Malay Archipelago, combining ethnographic research with research into genetic and linguistic markers to shed light on how these societies change over time. Islands of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691192944
• ISBN13: 9780691192949
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"