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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Lansing, J. Stephen
Corporate Author:	JSTOR (Organization)
Other Authors:	Cox, Murray P., Dove, Michael R.
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2019]
Series:	Princeton studies in complexity.
Subjects:	Social structure > Malay Archipelago. Anthropology > Malay Archipelago > Methodology. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Foreword: The Malay Archipelago Revisited by Michael R. Dove; Preface; 1. Models of Change; A point of departure; The origins of order; A clock that keeps good time; Neutral drift; Nonlinear systems; Triggers for nonlinear transitions; Complex adaptive systems; Discovering islands of order; Conclusion; 2. Discovering Austronesia; Introduction; Dubois' remarkable discovery; The first migration of modern humans; The second migration: Austronesians; Surprises in the data; The toolkits: Population genetics and kinship
The implications of matrilocalityFirst model: Sex bias and language replacement; Why the barrier in Wallacea?; Second model: Demographic skew; Generations of butterfly effects; Conclusion; 3. Dominance, Selection, and Neutrality; Introduction; Selection for dominance?; The meek shall inherit. . .; Neutral tests and the neutral theory: From genetics to ecology; Transience and time scales: Baby names; Transience and time scales: Potsherds and archaeology; Conclusion; 4. Language and Kinship in Deep Time; Return to Wehali; Cophylogenies of languages and genes; The implications of host switching
Kinship and language transmissionLanguage and kinship in deep time; Zooming in to the community scale; Conclusion; 5. Islands of Cooperation; Prelude: How Bali became Bali; Introduction; Terracing volcanoes; Ecology of the rice terraces; A cooperation game; Testing the game-theoretical model; An agent-based model of the coupled system; Conclusion; 6. Adaptive Self-Organized Criticality; Mosaics and power laws; Universal Bali: A lattice model; Results of the lattice model; Comparison with satellite imagery; Why power laws?; Conclusion; 7. Transition Paths; Introduction; Does age matter?
A pilot study of cooperationResults of the pilot study; Exploring differences in regimes; Conclusion; 8. From the Other Shore; Revisiting the Austronesian expansion; The protosystem and the structural core; Phase portraits; Sex and power, revisited; Reflections on stone boats; Emergence of a new synchronic whole in Bali; Afterword; Appendix A. Correlation Functions; Appendix B. Game and Lattice Models; Appendix C. Intra- and Intersubak Coordination of Irrigation; Appendix D. Fisher Information; Appendix E. Energy Landscape Analysis; Appendix F. Survey Questions Used in Chapter 7; Index