Seventh Lagoon: The Ring of Water

The Seventh Lagoon is an eco-activist artwork conversation — with all of us — on the rise of the earths’s oceans previously exhibited and catalogued as part of the Lagoon Cycle (1985). The entire 360-foot work is now in the National Museum of Modern …

Network Perspectives on Communities

Abstract: The application of network perspectives to communities requires some appreciation of the variety of ways people are now writing about communities. Some scholars and practitioners have drifted toward the view that a community is composed ve…

Atlas of Chiefdoms and Early States

This first installment of an Atlas of Chiefdoms and Early States assembles data on six clusters of elementary hierarchical polities, coded here to measure the scale of both the political-administrative aspects and the social-economic aspects of these c…

Response to Christiansen and Altaweel

This response contextualizes Christiansen and Altaweel’s paper within broader currents of human-climate interactions. It then examines some of the implications of the use of wide ranging data sources for the construction of complex models as well as so…

Preface to Structure and Dynamics:1#3

We institute here a policy of occasionally publishing noteworthy PhD dissertations that advance anthropology or related sciences. Such publications are to be copy edited by the dissertation author, nominated by the author’s PhD committee, and must rece…