Ian Skoggard
Biographic Data
| ID | 94933 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ian Skoggard |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ian |
| FAMILY NAME | Skoggard |
| SIGNATURE | SKOGGARD I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Yale University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6158-6522 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 71 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Local knowledge and practice in disaster relief: A worldwide cross-cultural comparison of coping mechanisms
Climate Variability, Drought, and the Belief that High Gods Are Associated with Weather in Nonindustrial Societies
All societies have religious beliefs, but societies vary widely in the number and type of gods in which they believe as well as their ideas about what the gods do. In many societies, a god is thought to be responsible for weather events. In some of those societies, a god is thought to cause harm with weather and/or can choose to help, such as by bringing needed rain. In other societies, gods are not thought to be involved with weather. Using a wo…
Resource Stress Predicts Changes in Religious Belief and Increases in Sharing Behavior
What Ethnology Can Tell Us about the Consequences of Climate Change
Our better nature: Does resource stress predict beyond-household sharing?
Warfare, atrocities, and political participation: Eastern Africa
Purpose Ember et al. (1992) addressed whether the “democracies rarely fight each other” hypothesis held true in the anthropological record of societies of various sizes and scales around the world. They indeed found that more participatory polities had less internal warfare – or warfare between one society’s territorial units (e.g. bands, villages, districts). The purpose of this paper is to examine when political participation would have similar…
The Indigenous Dynamic in Taiwan's Postwar Development: Religious and Historical Roots of Entrepreneurship
Using Taiwan's third largest export industry - shoe manufacturing - as a case study, this work contends that economic development can be tied to Taiwan's own cultural history as well as to the influx of foreign capital or the initiatives of the state government
Introduction: Toward an Anthropology of Affect and Evocative Ethnography
A growing interest in affect holds much promise for anthropology by providing a new frame to examine and articulate subjective and intersubjective states, which are key parts of human consciousness and behavior. Affect has its roots in the social, an observation that did not go unnoticed by Durkheim and since then has been kept in view by those social scientists interested in the emotions, feelings, and subjectivity. However, the challenge for et…
Rain and Raids Revisited: Disaggregating Ethnic Group Livestock Raiding in the Ethiopian-Kenyan Border Region
Focusing on livestock raiding, a major form of violence in arid and semiarid regions, we evaluate the relationship between rainfall and intensity of violence, disaggregating ethnic groups that have somewhat different subsistence patterns. We do so to try to resolve previously published results and conclusions that appear contradictory – some research finding livestock violence higher in wet times suggestive of more violence in times of plenty; ot…
An Interdisciplinary Approach to Agent-Based Modeling of Conflict in Eastern Africa
Over the past four years, a team of computational social scientists at the Center for Social Complexity at George Mason University (GMU) in collaboration with anthropologists from the Human Relations Area Files (HRAF) at Yale University have been developing a multi-scale spatial agent-based model to better understand the environmental, social, and cultural dimensions of conflicts in the Rift Valley region of eastern Africa. The overall goal of th…
Introduction: Keeping it Real in the Application of the New Technology
There is no stopping technology. The incorporation of computers as a research tool into anthropology is inevitable. The Luddite in us wants to lash out against this intrusion. The alternative is to meet the challenge head on and tame the beast in our own way. The papers in this special issue on modeling reveal how this latter process is possible and ultimately successful. Practicing anthropologists have been leading the way. Their engagement in m…
Risk, Uncertainty, and Violence in Eastern Africa: A Regional Comparison
Livestock Raiding and Rainfall Variability in Northwestern Kenya
In 2009, Witsenburg and Adano summarized their research on rainfall variability and livestock raiding in Marsabit District, Kenya. They found that livestock-related violence was higher in wetter months and wetter years, contrary to the common assumption that scarcity of water and pasture is the primary driver of livestock violence. Our research, focusing on the neighboring Turkana District of northwestern Kenya, attempted to replicate the Witsenb…
Encyclopedia of Diasporas: Immigrant and Refugee Cultures Around the World. Volume I : Overviews and Topics; Volume II
Encyclopedia of Diasporas: Immigrant and Refugee Cultures Around the World
Immigration is a topic that is as important among anthropologists as it is the general public. Almost every culture has experienced adaptation and assimilation when immigrating to a new country and cu
Anthropologists Acting Locally: Richard Zimmer Links the Community and Classroom
Society for the Anthropology of Work: The Work of Anthropology
Statecraft and Political Economy on the Taiwan Frontier
This is a study of the Han Chinese settlement of Taiwan, which occurred surprisingly late in Chinese history. Although only 100 miles off the coast of south China, Taiwan's shores never beckoned Han pioneers until the 1600s. One reason for this lateness was that Taiwan was the home of a large population of Austronesian people who were diligent in keeping out intruders. It was not until the Dutch built a fort
Introduction: Toward an Anthropology of Affect and Evocative Ethnography
A growing interest in affect holds much promise for anthropology by providing a new frame to examine and articulate subjective and intersubjective states, which are key parts of human consciousness and behavior. Affect has its roots in the social, an observation that did not go unnoticed by Durkheim and since then has been kept in view by those social scientists interested in the emotions, feelings, and subjectivity. However, the challenge for et…
Livestock Raiding and Rainfall Variability in Northwestern Kenya
In 2009, Witsenburg and Adano summarized their research on rainfall variability and livestock raiding in Marsabit District, Kenya. They found that livestock-related violence was higher in wetter months and wetter years, contrary to the common assumption that scarcity of water and pasture is the primary driver of livestock violence. Our research, focusing on the neighboring Turkana District of northwestern Kenya, attempted to replicate the Witsenb…
Risk, Uncertainty, and Violence in Eastern Africa: A Regional Comparison
Rain and Raids Revisited: Disaggregating Ethnic Group Livestock Raiding in the Ethiopian-Kenyan Border Region
Focusing on livestock raiding, a major form of violence in arid and semiarid regions, we evaluate the relationship between rainfall and intensity of violence, disaggregating ethnic groups that have somewhat different subsistence patterns. We do so to try to resolve previously published results and conclusions that appear contradictory – some research finding livestock violence higher in wet times suggestive of more violence in times of plenty; ot…
Resource Stress Predicts Changes in Religious Belief and Increases in Sharing Behavior
Warfare, atrocities, and political participation: Eastern Africa
Purpose Ember et al. (1992) addressed whether the “democracies rarely fight each other” hypothesis held true in the anthropological record of societies of various sizes and scales around the world. They indeed found that more participatory polities had less internal warfare – or warfare between one society’s territorial units (e.g. bands, villages, districts). The purpose of this paper is to examine when political participation would have similar…
Statecraft and Political Economy on the Taiwan Frontier
This is a study of the Han Chinese settlement of Taiwan, which occurred surprisingly late in Chinese history. Although only 100 miles off the coast of south China, Taiwan's shores never beckoned Han pioneers until the 1600s. One reason for this lateness was that Taiwan was the home of a large population of Austronesian people who were diligent in keeping out intruders. It was not until the Dutch built a fort
Anthropologists Acting Locally: Richard Zimmer Links the Community and Classroom
Society for the Anthropology of Work: The Work of Anthropology
Encyclopedia of Diasporas: Immigrant and Refugee Cultures Around the World
Immigration is a topic that is as important among anthropologists as it is the general public. Almost every culture has experienced adaptation and assimilation when immigrating to a new country and cu
Encyclopedia of Diasporas: Immigrant and Refugee Cultures Around the World. Volume I : Overviews and Topics; Volume II
Livestock Raiding and Rainfall Variability in Northwestern Kenya
In 2009, Witsenburg and Adano summarized their research on rainfall variability and livestock raiding in Marsabit District, Kenya. They found that livestock-related violence was higher in wetter months and wetter years, contrary to the common assumption that scarcity of water and pasture is the primary driver of livestock violence. Our research, focusing on the neighboring Turkana District of northwestern Kenya, attempted to replicate the Witsenb…
An Interdisciplinary Approach to Agent-Based Modeling of Conflict in Eastern Africa
Over the past four years, a team of computational social scientists at the Center for Social Complexity at George Mason University (GMU) in collaboration with anthropologists from the Human Relations Area Files (HRAF) at Yale University have been developing a multi-scale spatial agent-based model to better understand the environmental, social, and cultural dimensions of conflicts in the Rift Valley region of eastern Africa. The overall goal of th…
Introduction: Keeping it Real in the Application of the New Technology
There is no stopping technology. The incorporation of computers as a research tool into anthropology is inevitable. The Luddite in us wants to lash out against this intrusion. The alternative is to meet the challenge head on and tame the beast in our own way. The papers in this special issue on modeling reveal how this latter process is possible and ultimately successful. Practicing anthropologists have been leading the way. Their engagement in m…
Risk, Uncertainty, and Violence in Eastern Africa: A Regional Comparison
Rain and Raids Revisited: Disaggregating Ethnic Group Livestock Raiding in the Ethiopian-Kenyan Border Region
Focusing on livestock raiding, a major form of violence in arid and semiarid regions, we evaluate the relationship between rainfall and intensity of violence, disaggregating ethnic groups that have somewhat different subsistence patterns. We do so to try to resolve previously published results and conclusions that appear contradictory – some research finding livestock violence higher in wet times suggestive of more violence in times of plenty; ot…
Introduction: Toward an Anthropology of Affect and Evocative Ethnography
A growing interest in affect holds much promise for anthropology by providing a new frame to examine and articulate subjective and intersubjective states, which are key parts of human consciousness and behavior. Affect has its roots in the social, an observation that did not go unnoticed by Durkheim and since then has been kept in view by those social scientists interested in the emotions, feelings, and subjectivity. However, the challenge for et…
The Indigenous Dynamic in Taiwan's Postwar Development: Religious and Historical Roots of Entrepreneurship
Using Taiwan's third largest export industry - shoe manufacturing - as a case study, this work contends that economic development can be tied to Taiwan's own cultural history as well as to the influx of foreign capital or the initiatives of the state government
Our better nature: Does resource stress predict beyond-household sharing?
Warfare, atrocities, and political participation: Eastern Africa
Purpose Ember et al. (1992) addressed whether the “democracies rarely fight each other” hypothesis held true in the anthropological record of societies of various sizes and scales around the world. They indeed found that more participatory polities had less internal warfare – or warfare between one society’s territorial units (e.g. bands, villages, districts). The purpose of this paper is to examine when political participation would have similar…
What Ethnology Can Tell Us about the Consequences of Climate Change
Resource Stress Predicts Changes in Religious Belief and Increases in Sharing Behavior
Climate Variability, Drought, and the Belief that High Gods Are Associated with Weather in Nonindustrial Societies
All societies have religious beliefs, but societies vary widely in the number and type of gods in which they believe as well as their ideas about what the gods do. In many societies, a god is thought to be responsible for weather events. In some of those societies, a god is thought to cause harm with weather and/or can choose to help, such as by bringing needed rain. In other societies, gods are not thought to be involved with weather. Using a wo…
Local knowledge and practice in disaster relief: A worldwide cross-cultural comparison of coping mechanisms
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