Dwight W Read

Biographic Data

ID76326
NAMEDwight W Read
GIVEN NAMESDwight W
FAMILY NAMERead
SIGNATUREREAD D W
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of California, Los Angeles
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS42
TOTAL CITATIONS193
WORKS AS AUTHOR42
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1970
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX8

  • Introduction to Volume 3, Issue 1

    Open AccessFadwa El Guindi, Dwight W ReadARTICLEKinship2023

  • Introduction to Volume 2, Issue 2

    Open AccessFadwa El Guindi, D Read et al.ARTICLEKinship2022

  • Introduction to Volume 2, Issue 1

    Open AccessFadwa El Guindi, Dwight W ReadARTICLEKinship2022

    Introduction to the current issue of Kinship

  • Introduction to Special Issue

    Open AccessFadwa El Guindi, Dwight W ReadARTICLEKinship2022

  • General Introduction

    Open AccessDwight W Read, Fadwa El GuindiARTICLEKinship2021

    The journal, Kinship , is dedicated to the study of kinship in all of its facets, is international in scope and will publish original work in English, though publications in other languages, as is the case in this issue, will be considered on a case-by-case basis. In this issue of Kinship , there are two articles which reflect the nature of kinship research in both its more traditional format with focus on the social context of kinship relations …

  • Introduction to the Science of Kinship

    Murray J Leaf, D Read et al.BOOKIntroduction to the Science of…2020

    In Introduction to the Science of Kinship, Murray J. Leaf and Dwight Read show how humans use specific systems of social ideas to organize their kinship relations and illustrate what this implies for the science of human social organization. Leaf and Read explain that every human society has multiple social organizations, each of which is associated with a distinct vocabulary. This vocabulary is associated with interrelated definitions of social …

  • From Past to Present

    Open AccessD Read, Dwight W ReadCHAPTERIntegrating Qualitative and…2019

  • Back to Kinship Iii

    Open AccessD Read, Dwight W Read et al.ARTICLEStructure and Dynamics eJournal…2019Cited by: 2References: 5

    Back to Kinship III is the third Special Issue of the e-journal, Structure and Dynamics sponsored by the group, Kinship Circle. Each issue is dedicated to current kinship research.There are 5 articles in this Special Issue, covering a wide range of kinship research questions and topics The first two articles, by William Young and Warren Shapiro, respectively, employ ethnographic evidence as the reason for revising previous kinship ideas. The next…

  • Kinship Systems

    Open AccessD Read, Dwight W ReadOTHERThe International Encyclopedia of…2018Cited by: 3References: 6

    Kinship is a universal of human societies, built around systems of self‐centric, reciprocal social relations. In all societies, societal members are conceptually organized, to one degree or another, through structured, reciprocal systems of relations. Kinship systems are broad in their scope and interdigitate with religious, economic, political, and other social systems. A group's ideas about procreation, along with its ideas about kinship relati…

  • GAD Members at XII Congress of Anthropologists and Ethnologists of Russia

    Open AccessFadwa El Guindi, D Read et al.ARTICLEAnthropology News2017

  • Incest Taboos and Kinship

    D Read, Dwight W ReadARTICLEReviews in Anthropology2014Cited by: 5References: 20

    In most, if not all, societies, incest taboos—perhaps the most universal of cultural taboos—include prohibitions on marriage between parent and child or between siblings. This universality suggests a biological origin, yet the considerable variation across societies in the full range of prohibited marriage relations implies a cultural origin. Correspondingly, theories regarding the origin of incest taboos vary from those that focus on the biologi…

  • Back to Kinship

    D Read, Dwight W Read et al.ARTICLEStructure and Dynamics eJournal…2013Cited by: 5References: 2

    In this collection, we retrace some of the historical development of the anthropological study of kinship and go back to the concepts and ideas that we, as anthropologists, had previously been circulating about kinship knowledge. We address issues that have been raised about the study of kinship, the place of kinship in anthropological knowledge and what constitutes kinship on the basis of local knowledge

  • Kinship Algebra Expert System (Kaes)

    Open AccessD Read, Dwight W ReadARTICLESocial Science Computer Review2005Cited by: 2References: 6

    The computer program Kinship Algebra Expert System (KAES) provides a graphically based framework for constructing, if possible, a generative algebraic model for the structure of a kinship terminology (the terms used to refer to one’s kin). The algebraic modeling is based on a theory of kinship terminologies elaborated through writing the software program. The theory relates the properties and structure of kinship terminologies to an underlying lo…

  • Change in the Form of Evolution

    D Read, Dwight W ReadARTICLEJournal of Mathematical Sociology2005Cited by: 4References: 12

    In this paper I sketch a model for the transition from biologically to culturally based forms of social organization. The impetus for the transition arises from increased individualization among the non-human primates that can be observed as one moves phylogenetically from the Cercopithecoids and Ceboids (Old and New World monkeys) to the hominoids, especially the African apes. Increased individualization introduced a conflict with coherent and s…

  • African Fractals

    D Read, Dwight W ReadARTICLEVisual Anthropology2004

  • Population Growth, Carrying Capacity, and Conflict

    D Read, Dwight W Read et al.ARTICLECurrent Anthropology2003Cited by: 36References: 74

    The standard model of population growth and regulation is critiqued. It is argued that any model of population growth and regulation must accommodate ten propositions, and a multitrajectory model that does so is described. This model identifies competition between groups, individual choice in reproductive behavior, the scale for spatial and temporal variation in resource abundance, and the social unit for resource access and ownership as importan…

  • Formal analysis of kinship terminologies and its relationship to what constitutes kinship

    D Read, Dwight W ReadARTICLEAnthropological Theory2001Cited by: 20References: 36

    The goal of this paper is to relate formal analysis of kinship terminologies to a better understanding of who, culturally, are defined as our kin. Part 1 of the paper begins with a brief discussion as to why neither of the two claims - (1) kinship terminologies, which primarily have to do with social categories and (2) kinship terminologies, which are based on classification of genealogically specified relationships traced through genitor and gen…

  • A Method for Taxonomic Typology Construction and an Example

    Open AccessD Read, Dwight W Read et al.ARTICLEAmerican Antiquity1996Cited by: 4References: 26

    This paper considers problems inherent in constructing typologies based on subdividing artifacts using clustering algorithms that assume a paradigmatic structure (as do most, if not all, currently used algorithms) and presents an alternative method based on a taxonomic, rather than a paradigmatic, structure for the artifact classes. The method is exemplified by analysis of an assemblage of utilized flakes from a series of late prehistoric habitat…

  • Anthropology

    Open AccessClifford A Behrens, D Read et al.ARTICLESocial Science Computer Review1993References: 6

    To date, most applications of computing technology in anthropology have been task-driven, automating work that was usually done manually or mechanically before computers moved outside the domain of specialists and became readily accessible. This essay addresses the question, What kind of computing environment would best support a scientific enterprise in anthropology? A scientific perspective in anthropology takes individual tasks to be inextrica…

  • Lists and FTPing

    Open AccessD Read, Dwight W ReadARTICLECAM1993

  • Envisioning Information . Edward R. Tufte

    Open AccessD Read, Dwight W ReadARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist1991

  • Anthropology and Computers

    Open AccessD Read, Dwight W ReadARTICLESocial Science Computer Review1990References: 9

    Much of current software is based on an algorithmic approach ill suited for the openended analysis using qualitative data that is typical of anthropological research. The potential for effective analysis of qualitative data exists, but will need a different kind of software that is more exploratory in its orientation. A limited survey of what anthropologists are doing with computing shows that there is interest in programs that enable one to work…

  • Intuitive typology and automatic classification

    Open AccessDwight W ReadARTICLEJournal of Anthropological…1989

  • Modeling Folk Knowledge as Expert Systems

    D Read, Dwight W Read et al.ARTICLEAnthropological Quarterly1989Cited by: 1

    There are striking parallels between ideas developed in the study of cognitive systems by anthropologists and the modeling of expertise in artificial intelligence research. These parallels suggest that expert system architectures can provide effective means to formulate rigorous models for theories about native expertise and so-called cultural competence. We illustrate how such modeling may be done with theprogram, BA TES (Bisayan Address Term Ex…

  • Sampling Procedures for Regional Surveys

    D Read, Dwight W ReadARTICLEJournal of Field Archaeology1986Cited by: 9References: 1

    In this paper several considerations are discussed that developed out of the sampling program for the Chevelon Archaeological Research Project, located in northern Arizona, aimed at making regional surveys more effective in their recovery of data on site locations.It is argued that a sampling program based on the survey of quadrats should be evaluated in terms of its ability to effectively discover sites, consistent with creating a sample of site…