Alvin W Wolfe
Biographic Data
| ID | 3586163 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alvin W Wolfe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alvin W |
| FAMILY NAME | Wolfe |
| SIGNATURE | WOLFE A W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of South Florida |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 40 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 124 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 40 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1955 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Anthropologist view of social network analysis and data mining
The Best is yet to Come
John W. Bennett (1915–2005)
Supranational Networks
The nation-state systems that seem to dominate the global landscape are not necessarily the pinnacle of evolution. A conglomeration of interacting factors spelled doom for the traditional colonialism of previous centuries while providing an ideal environment for multinational firms operating above the level of nation-states to play an important role in the generation of a new politico-socio-economic system better described by network models than …
Network Perspectives on Communities
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 very largely of the personal networks of the individuals who are members of the community. But the whole community is more than the sum of those related parts, and the structure of a community must include not onl…
Network Thinking in Peace and Conflict Studies
Developments in mathematics and social theory and in techniques of communication and computation have brought network analysis to a state where it can be practically applied over a broad spectrum. Surprisingly, this mode of analysis has not been adopted by practitioners and scholars of peace and conflict studies to the extent that it ought to be. Examples of types of analysis that could have important applications are given, using network concept…
Elites
News Feature
Anthropological Contributions to Conflict Resolution
Anthropological Contributions to Conflict Resolution consists of ten essays that make vividly apparent the variety of ways that anthropological approaches and perspectives can be of practical worth in the resolution of conflicts. The essays represent various subdisciplines in anthropology, including legal and political anthropology, economic anthropology, cross-cultural studies, interpretive approaches, and social network approaches. Conflicts an…
Welfare Reform
The United States federal government, after fifty years of gradually increasing its involvement, in creating and managing the nation's social safety net through social security, food stamps, work projects, employment training, etc., began to pull back in the 1980s. Then in 1996, it made a very steep retraction of its involvement in creating and managing a social safety net. This change was highlighted by the passing of the Federal
Social Network Analysis
Social Network Analysis: Methods and Applications. STANLEY WASSERMAN and KATHERINE FAUST. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994. xxxi + 825 pp., illustrations, tables, appendixes, references, indexes
Commentary on Spicer's Trend One, And More
Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share MailTo Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Alvin Wolfe; Commentary on Spicer's Trend One, And More. Human Organization 1 December 1994; 53 (4): 408–411. doi: https://doi.org/10.17730/humo.53.4.m766v6455p3v1m11 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendele…
Proposed Amendments to the Southern Anthropological Society Bylaws
Applied Anthropology at the University of South Florida
At the University of South Florida (USF) we have had almost twenty years of experience with internships in training practicing anthropologists at the master's level and nearly ten years of similar experience in our doctoral program. By the summer of 1992, the applied anthropology programs had produced 148 master's graduates and 10 doctoral graduates. In this issue of Practicing Anthropology we share some of what we have learned by highlighting th…
Peter K. New Award
Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Alvin Wolfe; Peter K. New Award: Introduction. Human Organization 1 June 1992; 51 (2): 187. doi: https://doi.org/10.17730/humo.51.2.0131k44401hqm318 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers E…
Internships and Practica in Applied Anthropology
General/Theoretical Anthropology
American Ethnological Society
Applied Anthropology
Policy Studies and Anthropology [and Comments and Reply]
An increasing number of anthropologists are involved in policy studies, studies which aim to change or to affect decision making with respect to important public issues. Characteristics of these studies are highlighted in contrast to traditional research assumptions given in the anthropological literature. It is the author's contention that research using traditional anthropological methods and techniques must be changed to accommodate policy stu…
Scale and Social Organization. FREDRIK BARTH
How It All Began
As, interest in applied anthropology is expanding, in the late 1970s, we hear and read various accounts of how it began in the 1940s. Who attended those first meetings in Cambridge, and in New York, which gave birth to the Society for Applied Anthropology and the journal entitled Applied Anthropology that later became Human Organization? It seems strange that events so important in their consequences, involving persons so literate and so accustom…
Ethnology
The rise of network thinking in anthropology
The Supranational Organization of Production
Fresh theoretical perspectives are required for understanding the rapid expansion of international economic activity and especially the organization of production on a world scale through institutions of multinational enterprise. Ananthropological evolutionary approach which sees these developments as part of the generation of a new system at a supranational level of sociocultural integration seems appropiate to the task. The creation of such a n…
Social Network Analysis
Social Network Analysis: Methods and Applications. STANLEY WASSERMAN and KATHERINE FAUST. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994. xxxi + 825 pp., illustrations, tables, appendixes, references, indexes
The Supranational Organization of Production
Fresh theoretical perspectives are required for understanding the rapid expansion of international economic activity and especially the organization of production on a world scale through institutions of multinational enterprise. Ananthropological evolutionary approach which sees these developments as part of the generation of a new system at a supranational level of sociocultural integration seems appropiate to the task. The creation of such a n…
Social Structural Bases of Art
The African Mineral Industry
First publication in which the development of a supranational system is recognized as a major evolutionary saltation. The authors writings along this line upset American financial interests and the United States government which were at the time obsessed with the "Cold War." On April 4, 1963, the New York Times reported that a leading American industrialist, Clarence Randall, had denounced me for what he called "a scandalous attack" against the m…
Policy Studies and Anthropology [and Comments and Reply]
An increasing number of anthropologists are involved in policy studies, studies which aim to change or to affect decision making with respect to important public issues. Characteristics of these studies are highlighted in contrast to traditional research assumptions given in the anthropological literature. It is the author's contention that research using traditional anthropological methods and techniques must be changed to accommodate policy stu…
On Structural Comparisons of Networks
L'analyse de réseau social traduit une dissociation des modèles structurels statiques et un rapprochement de modèles conceptuels qui permettent une plus grande flexibilité. Le concept de « réseau social » fut jusqu'à J. A. Barnes, une notion imprécise. Aujourd'hui, ce concept est utilisé avec une grande rigueur théorique et l'étude des réseaux en est rendue au stage où les méthodes de comparaison doivent être clarifiées. L'article suggère une tax…
Differential Artistic Productivity in the Eskimo Cultural Tradition [and Comments and Reply]
Conditions of archaeological preservation along the Arctic coast of North America allow the recovery of objects of technology and plastic art throughout the past 4,000 years of the Eskimo cultural tradition. This situation provides a unique opportunity for approaching the question: Why is more and better art produced during certain periods in the history of a society, or, in this case, of a series of historically related societies, while at other…
The Stranger in Laboratory Culture
THIS laboratory study will show how taking the role of stranger affects certain responses made by the individual. Theoretically, it stems from an interest in marginality demonstrated by sociologists, anthropologists and historians. For example, Teggart 1 pointed out that contact between groups tends to emancipate the individual in thought and action. Park 2 and Stonequist 3 urged attention to the marginal man as a kind of concentration of the dyn…
Anthropologist view of social network analysis and data mining
Applied Anthropology at the University of South Florida
At the University of South Florida (USF) we have had almost twenty years of experience with internships in training practicing anthropologists at the master's level and nearly ten years of similar experience in our doctoral program. By the summer of 1992, the applied anthropology programs had produced 148 master's graduates and 10 doctoral graduates. In this issue of Practicing Anthropology we share some of what we have learned by highlighting th…
"Myth of Nonacademic Anthropology" Criticized
Urban Anthropology, Perspectives on 'Third World' Urbanization and Urbanism
Scale and Social Organization. FREDRIK BARTH
Mans Relation to Man in Africa
Art and the Supernatural in the Ubangi District
The Stranger in Laboratory Culture
THIS laboratory study will show how taking the role of stranger affects certain responses made by the individual. Theoretically, it stems from an interest in marginality demonstrated by sociologists, anthropologists and historians. For example, Teggart 1 pointed out that contact between groups tends to emancipate the individual in thought and action. Park 2 and Stonequist 3 urged attention to the marginal man as a kind of concentration of the dyn…
Discussion from the Floor
John Ball, George Herzog, Thelma James, Louis C. Jones, Melville J. Herskovits, Wm. Hugh Jansen, Richard M. Dorson, Alvin W. Wolfe, Daniel G. Hoffman, Discussion from the Floor, The Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 72, No. 285 (Jul. - Sep., 1959), pp. 233-241
Mans Relation to Man in Africa
Ethnology
Reply to Review of “In the Ngombe Tradition
The African Mineral Industry
First publication in which the development of a supranational system is recognized as a major evolutionary saltation. The authors writings along this line upset American financial interests and the United States government which were at the time obsessed with the "Cold War." On April 4, 1963, the New York Times reported that a leading American industrialist, Clarence Randall, had denounced me for what he called "a scandalous attack" against the m…
The Place of Anthropology in the Future of Africa
Most of us in African studies today belong to that generation of scholars who started their work at a time when virtually all the genuine knowledge we had of Africa was gathered by anthropologists. What we knew about Africa was anthropological knowledge. Anthropologists dominated the field, for better or for worse, when most of Africa was under colonial control, when Africa was politically an extension of Europe and economically within the metrop…
Social Structural Bases of Art
On Structural Comparisons of Networks
L'analyse de réseau social traduit une dissociation des modèles structurels statiques et un rapprochement de modèles conceptuels qui permettent une plus grande flexibilité. Le concept de « réseau social » fut jusqu'à J. A. Barnes, une notion imprécise. Aujourd'hui, ce concept est utilisé avec une grande rigueur théorique et l'étude des réseaux en est rendue au stage où les méthodes de comparaison doivent être clarifiées. L'article suggère une tax…
Ethnography and Ethnology
Livres/Books
Urban Anthropology, Perspectives on 'Third World' Urbanization and Urbanism
Differential Artistic Productivity in the Eskimo Cultural Tradition [and Comments and Reply]
Conditions of archaeological preservation along the Arctic coast of North America allow the recovery of objects of technology and plastic art throughout the past 4,000 years of the Eskimo cultural tradition. This situation provides a unique opportunity for approaching the question: Why is more and better art produced during certain periods in the history of a society, or, in this case, of a series of historically related societies, while at other…
The Supranational Organization of Production
Fresh theoretical perspectives are required for understanding the rapid expansion of international economic activity and especially the organization of production on a world scale through institutions of multinational enterprise. Ananthropological evolutionary approach which sees these developments as part of the generation of a new system at a supranational level of sociocultural integration seems appropiate to the task. The creation of such a n…
"Myth of Nonacademic Anthropology" Criticized
The rise of network thinking in anthropology
How It All Began
As, interest in applied anthropology is expanding, in the late 1970s, we hear and read various accounts of how it began in the 1940s. Who attended those first meetings in Cambridge, and in New York, which gave birth to the Society for Applied Anthropology and the journal entitled Applied Anthropology that later became Human Organization? It seems strange that events so important in their consequences, involving persons so literate and so accustom…
Ethnology
Policy Studies and Anthropology [and Comments and Reply]
An increasing number of anthropologists are involved in policy studies, studies which aim to change or to affect decision making with respect to important public issues. Characteristics of these studies are highlighted in contrast to traditional research assumptions given in the anthropological literature. It is the author's contention that research using traditional anthropological methods and techniques must be changed to accommodate policy stu…
Scale and Social Organization. FREDRIK BARTH
Applied Anthropology
American Ethnological Society
General/Theoretical Anthropology
Internships and Practica in Applied Anthropology
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